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Happy birthday, Jeanette MacDonald!

Happy birthday today to Jeanette MacDonald!

Some quotes about her life:

“I have worked terribly hard, maybe even much harder than I should have. And you only find this out after you can look back over your experiences and see why you should have accepted things more instead of pushing, as I’m sure I did.”

“I guess there isn’t much I haven’t done. But I think I missed having children. That’s the biggest order I never filled. It just wasn’t in the cards, I guess.”

“I never realized how much movie stars man to people. Not what you do or what you say but just your presence, your being there. It makes you feel embarrassed and rather humble and happy all at once. To be able to bring that much pleasure to people makes me a very lucky woman. Very lucky.”

 

Today in J/N History

1936 It's announced that Jeanette and Nelson will re-team next in "The Girl of the Golden West."  During this period in December, they had a brief reunion despite her engagement to Gene Raymond. But it would be nearly a year before this film was made due to their inability to reconcile their differences (mostly over her career) and their overall estrangement before and after her marriage.

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