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Nelson Eddy remembered (1901-1967)

Nelson Eddy

Remembering Nelson Eddy today on the 51st anniversary of his passing…a great singer…

Nelson Eddy

Movie audiences knew what they were looking at, a great lover off-screen as well as on…

Nelson Eddy Jeanette MacDonald

…and a man whose life despite his artistry, passion, compassion, capacity for love and basic gentle, trusting nature, was irreversibly affected by Hollywood…summed up in a nutshell in this 1965 interview. Listen carefully to all the dynamics…boyish love, hope, youth, pain, memories, bitterness and entrapment in that he could never be fully honest for “public consumption.”

Today in J/N History

1933 Newspaper reports state Nelson has reported threatening phone calls, that "something tragic would happen to him in the near future." The Los Angeles District Attorney assigned Nelson bodyguards just in case, as one paper noted that Nelson's mother, Isabel, was very concerned. This was the first instance of "threatening phone calls" Nelson would receive over the years.

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