Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy 2010 Valentines Week Cruise!

Carnival Pride
Carnival Pride

Ahoy Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Fans!

We have finalized plans for our 2010 Valentine’s week cruise – a 7-day on the Carnival Pride, sailing from Baltimore, MD. Date: February 7-14, 2010!

I have set up a separate informational website with all the cruise details in one place. You also need to make your reservations there – fill in the registration form online. A $25 deposit will hold your cabin. The cruise website: http://www.maceddy.com/cruise.

Your reservations need to be made in the next week or so, to get the prices that are quoted on that website.

Last time, the Convention Fee was combined into the overall price. This time, we will collect the convention fee separately on our main website, at this link.  We will process your cruise payments for you directly to Carnival.

We are excited about putting this cruise together ourselves, and definitely want your input about which 3 films to show, talent night and any other activities you’d like to do during our time together.

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Photos of Nelson Eddy’s grave, Jeanette MacDonald’s crypt, June 2009

Nelson Eddy's grave - with flowers from the Mac/Eddy Club, 6/29/09
Nelson Eddy's grave - with flowers and flags from the Mac/Eddy Club, 6/29/09

Every year, the Mac/Eddy Club holds a Birthday Bash honoring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy on the last Sunday of June. Afterwards, or usually on Nelson’s birthday (since it’s always close to the date of our event) some of the fans visit their graves and place flowers.

The gals that were responsible for purchasing the urns in front of the grave markers – on behalf of the Mac/Eddy Club – made their yearly visit on Nelson’s birthday. The next day they visited Jeanette’s grave. They graciously emailed us pictures to share with you, along with this email:

Thank you for a lovely meeting on Sunday. Everyone truly enjoyed the Brent Perry interview.

We went to the Hollywood Forever cemetery to bring our birthday flowers for Nelson. When we arrived, no one had been there. We did our usual trimming and cleaning…We always put in an hour’s worth of trimming and grooming the site and placing our flowers before [the NEAS rep arrives], and add their flowers. We have been doing this for nearly 10 years.

I have attached the “after” (with our flowers) , complete with our flags for the Fourth of July to symbolize Nelson’s love of country. It would be nice if you would post the photo of the way we left the site with our flowers….Brian and Beryl [members from the U.K.] brought the lovely basket in the middle.

Today, we made a special trip to Forest Lawn to visit Jeanette’s site and took two small bouquets, each containing two pink roses which we placed on each side of her crypt in memory of Nelson’s love for her.

Here are the photos showing the lovely flowers. Thank you, gals, for your loving care every year, as always!

Jeanette MacDonald's crypt with flowers placed in her memory, 6/30/09
Jeanette MacDonald's crypt with roses placed in her memory, 6/30/09

Nelson Eddy’s Sculpture of Actress Anna May Wong Now Available!

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Nelson Eddy and his 1940s lifesize sculpture of Anna May Wong, limited edition replicas available at www.maceddy.com
Nelson Eddy and his 1943 lifesize sculpture of actress Anna May Wong, limited edition replicas available at www.maceddy.com

As you may know, we own the original of Nelson Eddy‘s excellent lifesize sculpture of the famous Chinese-American movie star, Anna May Wong. Although the sculpture is undated, we have a photo of Nelson working on it in 1943. On the back of it are his initials and the date “43”.

We did offer this years ago and sold exactly one replica of it. Recently we’ve had some requests for it again but needed a few orders to cover the costs of prep work and a new molding to make it available again.

We have had enough interest to resume the project…so are making it available again.  The bust is lifesize but actually a larger piece because more of Ms. Wong’s torso is sculpted – not just a head shot. Many who have seen it think it is Nelson’s best sculpture.

Please contact us if interested in owning a lifesize copy of this Anna May Wong bust.

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