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Happy birthday, Nelson Eddy!



Happy birthday, Nelson Eddy! Movie star, opera and concert star, WWII spy and off-screen lover of Jeanette MacDonald. “Our marriage, to me, is a thing of such dignity and beauty that its lovely nights of sweet passion are a glorious string of pearls sent by the angels to bless us and I shall love you through all eternity.” From his diary entry dated March 26, 1946. Excerpted from Chapter 23 of “Sweethearts,” free to download today with Kindle Unlimited at this link. (Note: for those of you living outside the U.S., go to your own Amazon website, search for “sweethearts sharon rich” and you will find your Kindle link.)

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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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