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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

1937 Jeanette and Nelson attend a party at the Trocadero together. "Maytime" was still filming and we can assume that this was the tail end of their short-lived reconciliation. A week later Nelson left on his annual concert tour. He was soon giving bitter interviews to the press that were thinly disguised attacks against Jeanette and her ever-present career drive.

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