Happy Birthday, Nelson Eddy!
Today we celebrate the life and artistry of beloved singer Nelson Eddy, born this day in 1901.
Happy Birthday, Jeanette MacDonald!
The beautiful, talented and beloved Hollywood icon, Jeanette MacDonald, born today in 1903.
We get email…
Re: Our new magazines #73 and #74…thank you, Marcus! Letters like this make our day! 🙂
Hi Sharon
Just to let you know that the magazines arrived safely,
the quality of them are fantastic, thank you.
I have every volume from number 1,which I keep in mint condition.
I am so proud of my Mac/Eddy collection, I have now been collecting
on Jeanette and Nelson for over 45 yrs and as excited collecting on them
today as the day I started.
Remembering Nelson Eddy on this 50th anniversary…
Today we honor Nelson Eddy on the 50th anniversary of his passing, March 6, 1967. Hard to believe…Nelson burst on the silver screen in 1935’s Naughty Marietta…from his opening number as he marched onto the screen he was a STAR. That indescribable something…more than just good looks…someone there behind the eyes…an energy…a truth…a tremendous talent…an almost naive believe in the goodness of people… a tremendous capacity to love…a misfit really in Hollywood because he was genuine in an often phony world.
He died young at 65…having lived a life of the highest highs and the lowest lows…but always brought joy and beauty with his music.
We have been working on something special to mark and honor the half-century today since his passing. Perhaps more news tonight…if not, very soon. Stay tuned!
Lake Tahoe trip, 1948
The page above from Mac/Eddy Today, Issue #74 is an excerpt from an article showing Jeanette MacDonald’s 1948 handwritten desk diary, in which Jeanette notes that on September 5th, she and her husband Gene Raymond hosted a party at their home for singer Eleanor Steber. Nelson Eddy and his wife Ann also attended. It was all very civil. But the very next day, September 6th, Jeanette notes her trip to Lake Tahoe. At least once each year in the fall, she and Nelson went to Tahoe to renew their wedding vows made privately in 1935 while filming “Rose Marie.” If and when Jeanette ever announced publicly that she was off to Tahoe with “my husband,” she considered she was telling the truth. The Rise Steven article in the same magazine provides new details surrounding Jeanette and Nelson’s 1945 trip to Lake Tahoe. (The article is copyright 2017; all rights reserved.)