Join our new Facebook group!

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This week we set up a new maceddy.com Facebook group.

You can join the group (and Facebook itself) at this link.

For those of you who are not on Facebook, we have selected some of the unusual, different photos that folks have posted on our Facebook page (such as the one above), and added them to our own Photo Gallery page. That way everyone can enjoy them.

Please note that all Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy newsworthy items – whether posted on our Facebook group, our Yahoo group or found on the ‘net – are also posted here on our website. This way no one misses out.

We also have an email newsletter, with all news updates. If you’re not signed up for it you can do here.

Spanish author publishing new novel that features Jeanette and Nelson’s romance!

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If you live in Spain, watch for the upcoming March 2013 release of a new novel by by Fernando Alonso Barahona. He is a Madrid film historian with 34 books about Hollywood to his credit, including Cecil B. De Mille (1991), Cinema, ideas and art (1991) King Vidor (1992), Spanish cinema Biography (1992), Charlton Heston (1992), Sean Connery (1992), Michael Douglas ( 1992) One hundred horror films (1992), Gary Cooper (1994) and All About Ingrid Bergman (2005).

His novel “Retrato de Ella” will be available in Spanish. The genre is “romance – suspense – historical” and Jeanette and Nelson are among the historical celebrities featured. Here’s the synopsis (thanks to Google translate):

The story of Irene Valdes….The love story of Irene and Alexander over time in Cadaques fascinating scenarios and Lucerne. The circles of women, sensuality, magic of artistic creation, the love between Irene and criminal intrigue in the world of art….he shadows of soulmates, Salvador Dali and Gala, Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy….[This is Barahona’s third novel] after “Restoration” (2008) and Circle of Women (2010).

If you are on Facebook you can see a page devoted to the book at this link. PS: Fernando is a devoted Jeanette-Nelson fan and hosts a Spanish fan page for them on Facebook as well.

“Rose Marie” makeup man Fred Phillips featured in “ET” Star Trek article!

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A wonderful trivia note…

Our own Fred Phillips, who did makeup both on Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy during their early MGM teamings, was a valuable source for information about their romance. He was at Lake Tahoe during the filming of Rose Marie. Fred was very much aware not only of Jeanette’s pregnancy and the aftermath, but also the Wrath of Louie B. Mayer (towards Nelson) and Mayer’s insistence that the makeup team go overboard and make Nelson look laughable.

I met Fred Phillips through my screenwriter friend, Judy Burns, of Star Trek fame (“The Tholian Web”). She knew Fred because they worked together on the original Star Trek. Judy, Fred and I met for a long afternoon luncheon at a beautiful outdoor cafe near the beach…and later I had several follow-up phone conversations with Fred.

Above is a picture from the February 15, 2013 issue of Entertainment Weekly. The cover story features the new Star Trek movie. In the sidebar article, “Spock’s Ears: The Origin Story,” Leonard Nimoy, the original Spock, asserts that the creator of the pointed Vulcan ears was “the series’ makeup artist Fred Phillips.” The article adds: “…there’s no doubt that they remain the most recognizable cranial feature in sci-fi history.”

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