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Happy birthday, Nelson Eddy

Happy 118th birthday, Nelson Eddy! “Ever since I was a little boy and used to sit in Grandma’s darling old kitchen and dream my boyhood dreams, I have been trying to find myself. Now I know that all the years of sorrow and suffering have been only as God intended…. My darling – how shall I explain the pure and Holy Spirit that possesses me when I hold your body – more precious than any priceless jewel?” Nelson Eddy in his diary to Jeanette MacDonald, 1946; excerpted from Chapter 24 of “Sweethearts,” free to download today with Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00KTHKRGG/

Today in J/N History

1946 Jeanette's first film, "The Love Parade," screens again in Los Angeles. Jeanette doesn't attend; she is ill, reportedly suffering a bad cold and is on penicillin. In her stead, her mother Anna MacDonald and sister Blossom attend, along with Jeanette's secretary Emily West. Gene Raymond is not in attendance.

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