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Nelson Eddy remembered (1901-1967)

Nelson Eddy

Remembering Nelson Eddy today on the 51st anniversary of his passing…a great singer…

Nelson Eddy

Movie audiences knew what they were looking at, a great lover off-screen as well as on…

Nelson Eddy Jeanette MacDonald

…and a man whose life despite his artistry, passion, compassion, capacity for love and basic gentle, trusting nature, was irreversibly affected by Hollywood…summed up in a nutshell in this 1965 interview. Listen carefully to all the dynamics…boyish love, hope, youth, pain, memories, bitterness and entrapment in that he could never be fully honest for “public consumption.”

Today in J/N History

1944 Jeanette hospitalized on tour in El Paso, food poisoning given as the reason. Based on Nelson's very agitated reaction and initial impulse to fly to her even though he was in New York for work, it is likely that this was not in fact "food poisoning" but an early stage miscarriage.

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