Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy website nearing 3 million hits!

Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy continue to be popular on the ‘net. Amazing but true – maceddy.com is fast approaching 3 million hits on the website!

And – I’m not talking about 3 million hits since the website first went up in 1996. I’m talking about since our new, high-tech website went live in October 2006 – exactly two years ago this month!

The software program that runs the site has a built-in counter; I insisted the web designer put a link to it on our home page. It’s on the far left of the page, just below the “Babelfish” translation tool.

If you are the lucky person who clicks onto maceddy.com and sees the number 3,000,000 – you will receive a gift credit of $100 towards ANYTHING on our website!

All you need to do is take a screen shot of that part of the page and email it to us. Here’s how you do it:

1. Each time you visit http://www.maceddy.com over the next few days, scroll down the page to see whether you are visitor #3 million. If you are, make sure you have scrolled down enough so that the number is clearly visible on your monitor.

2. Hold down the “ctrl” key and while still holding it down, hit the “PrtSc” print-screen key on your computer. Doing that means that you have taken a snapshot of the screen. Then, minimize your browser. (DON’T close the browser, just minimize it.)

3. Open up a new Word document. Right-click your mouse on the page and click “paste.” It will paste the screen snapshot into the document.

4. Save the Word document and email it as an attachment to us.

5. If for some reason this didn’t work for you, you can maximize your browser and try taking a snapshot again. Or – if you have WebTV – you can take a picture of it with a digital camera, make a print of it and send it to the club. In this case, also please email us to let us know that you are the 3 millionth visitor!

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Another trait Clark Gable had in common with Nelson Eddy

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If you have read my book Sweethearts, you know that one of Nelson Eddy‘s few “real” friends in Hollywood was Clark Gable. Nelson, as you know, had a walk-on role in one of Gable’s 1933 hits, Dancing Lady. The two men enjoyed the outdoors, hated the Hollywood phoniness and admired each other’s “maverick” personalities.

Here’s a blurb from an upcoming biography of MGM director Victor Fleming:

Clark Gable nearly walked off the set of “Gone With the Wind” because of racism, an upcoming book reveals. In “Victor Fleming,” a bio of the director of the beloved Hollywood epic, Michael Sragow describes how a group of black extras, upset at studio bathrooms with “White” and “Colored” signs, approached Gable. “I’ll be goddamned,” the jolted star told them. “He got on the phone to Fleming, who called the prop master and told him, ‘If you don’t get those signs down, you won’t get your Rhett Butler,’ ” writes Sragow. “The signs came down immediately.” The book’s out in December.

Again, if you are familiar with my book, you also know that Nelson Eddy was intolerant of racism.
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Paul Newman Passes at 83

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Paul Newman

It certainly is a sad day, as the Associated Press just announced that actor Paul Newman has died. It was no secret that he was suffering with cancer.

Some time ago I posted about the fact that his wife Joanne Woodward was a Nelson Eddy fan. You can read about it at this link.

If you are interested in making a donation in his name, I would recommend his charity, Hole in the Wall. You can read about it at Newman’s Own website at this link.

And donate at this link.

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