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Happy Birthday, Jeanette MacDonald – June 18! TV showings…

Jeanette MacDonald from the film Sweethearts

Above: a gorgeous color shot of Jeanette MacDonald from the film Sweethearts. Her sister Blossom, by the way, kept an almost identical photo framed on her dresser during the last years of her life.

TCM is screening two of Jeanette’s films on her 105th birthday!

Smilin’ Through shows at 6 am Eastern Time, while Rose Marie with Nelson Eddy screens at 8 am.

Set your VCR, DVR or Tivo!

Today in J/N History

1954 Jeanette is the guest on Bob Hope's radio show and Nelson makes a surprise appearance (he is Hope's TV guest star the next day). After Nelson scoops Jeanette up in his arms to carry her off-stage, Bob Hope quips, "Say, there's a lot of Mountie left in this boy yet!"

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