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Mac/Eddy Today #73: Nelson “I love you” letter, Jeanette’s diary, MacRaymonds’ finances, Florence Bootin interview, Isabel’s divorce

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This issue includes several photo-filled articles;  updated background information re: Nelson’s “I love you” letter to Jeanette and her 1963 diary; an expose of Jeanette/Gene’s finances and where the money went as well as the failed Jeanette/Nelson film reunion; interview with Florence Bootin who was in the Houston Methodist Hospital during one of Jeanette’s visits there and witnessed a distraught Nelson at her side; Jeanette’s dressing table set; and the Isabel and Bill Eddy divorce transcripts along with photos and details showing the serious childhood stress and poverty Nelson endured.

Today in J/N History

1965 Jeanette MacDonald's funeral. Nelson Eddy was the last one out of the church, as the newsreel footage shows, plus he was comforted as the "widower" by Lauritz Melchior and others rather than Gene Raymond, her legal husband.

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