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Attn: Los Angeles area Jeanette MacDonald fans!

Above: Jeanette MacDonald takes a bow after her Hollywood Bowl recital, September 1948.

We received an email from our club member Robert Sage:

I just received a listing of upcoming concerts at the University of Southern California. Among them:
Friday, February 7 at 7:00 pm in the Alfred Newman Recital Hall (free admission): “Opera Scenes”. The description reads: “The singing actors of the USC Thornton Opera program present an exciting and wide-ranging selection of excerpts from grand opera to operetta featuring music from the work of American legend Jeanette MacDonald”.

For more information about this, go to this link. And thanks, Robert, for alerting us!

Today in J/N History

1938 Walter Pidgeon is offered the lead opposite Jeanette in "Broadway Serenade" but turns it down. (We don't know the reason why but perhaps he wasn't impressed with the on-set histrionics going on between her and Nelson during the filming of "Girl of the Golden West.") Lew Ayres replaces Pidgeon, simultaneously filming "Broadway Serenade" and "Ice Follies of 1939".

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