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March 9, 2008

I wasn’t going to see this movie but after reading this review from Toronto Life…

maceddy Jeanette & Nelson In the News

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (****)

“There’s something not quite right about Frances McDormand’s Miss Pettigrew. A frowzy clergyman’s daughter who works as a London governess—an unsuccessful venture for her, as she can’t help proselytizing to her employers—she begins the film penniless, and soon falls into the service of Delysia Lafosse (the irrepressible Amy Adams), whose glamour seems bound to change her forever.

Yet ultimately it’s Pettigrew who effects the most change. She is a wise woman, it turns out, and has known both love and tragedy. The shift is unconvincing (how could Pettigrew be so naively shocked at Delysia’s promiscuity and slovenliness when she has spent her whole, hardscrabble life chastising people for such things?) but completely excusable, for Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is unabashed fiction. Based on an obscure 1930s novel by Winifred Watson, it is an ode to that decade’s frothiest, most urbane films—particularly those of George Cukor and Ernst Lubitsch. Pettigrew, herself an avid moviegoer, clearly knows the drill; like a reluctant Prospero, she instructs Delysia (who, as embodied by Adams, recalls Carole Lombard, Jeanette MacDonald and Jean Harlow, among others) in just how to bring the story to a satisfying conclusion.

The meta-narrative is surprisingly sophisticated and effective (much like the film’s heroine), but makes Miss Pettigrew a bit of a curio. Who is it for? The make-over porn promised in the trailer is slight, and the film’s confectionary art direction seems, above all, conceptual. Indeed, Miss Pettigrew is about the value and fragility of aesthetics (a motif of air-raid sirens reminds us that bliss is a fleeting thing)—not, say, the triumph of vigorous, youthful idealism. It is escapism for adults, and as such seems oddly, admirably out of vogue.”

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March 7, 2008

We get emails…

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“Nelson did not die. His substance changed. He lives in the hearts and minds of those he touched on the silver screen with his passion and love for what hem most wanted — to please his audience with a song –and today we thank you again, Nelson, for giving us your song. ” Miriam

“I came across their movies at our church flea market 2yrs ago in May and after watching “Naughty Marietta” I got hooked. I think my Mom told me that Nelson Eddy married another woman and Jeanette married another man when I was a young girl. I was so much in love with them just from watching them on TV and disappointed that they didn’t marry one another. Thank you again for giving us the truth even as sad as it was.”
Molly

“Sharon.

I love you for all the effort you and your team put in to share all this news around and about Nelson and Jeanette.

You mention that they had a love relationship, this is not hard to believe, for two people to share the same love and interests as closely as Jeanette and Nelson did, to fall romantically in love with each other would be a natural consequence!

Once more thank you, and I do appreciate the new “blog.”

Fred

March 7, 2008

Excellent site to read about your favorite classic Hollywood stars…

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Today’s post is about Nelson, appropriately enough. I like this particular quick blurb:

“3/5/1940 SFC Jimmie Fidler: Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, individually concert touring, will try to arrange at least one joint date before returning to Hollywood.”

Background data: Jeanette and Nelson had reunited at this point after his marriage and they kept tabs while both were on tour…However, Nelson started to fall apart as the realization of their predicament hit him. He collapsed after his Chicago concert just before this blurb was published…and he had to cancel a March 5 concert in Cleveland. One wonders whether Jimmy Fiedler was tipped off as to the turmoil going on in Nelson’s life? Could it be coincidence that Nelson and Jeanette decided on a “joint date” so she could go to his side without public suspicion?

If you take a look at “Sweethearts”, pages 275-276, you’ll note that Nelson managed to get through 8 more concerts before suffering “a final crackup,” according to his mother – who flew to Milwaukee to bring her son home to a local hospital.

On page 529 of “Sweethearts,” I reproduced a handwritten letter from 1947 naming a list of people “who know all but are loyal…can you imagine it being this well known and not a leak anyplace?” Jimmy Fidler is on that list!

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