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March 5, 2013

K.T. Ernshaw’s book “To Love Again” now available on Kindle

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Good news! K.T. Ernshaw’s novel, To Love Again is now available for instant download on Kindle.

For those who don’t know her, she was a longtime confidante of Nelson Eddy’s and the main character in the book is based on the Nelson she knew.  Readers will recognize him immediately from the very beginning. From one of the reviews:

It’s an interesting plot if you like futuristic novels, and this one isn’t set too far in the future, but let’s face it, Nelson Eddy fans will want to read it for the love story. You have to keep in mind that this author had an extensive intimate relationship with Nelson Eddy, off-and-on over a period of 20 years. She has preferred to play this down and writes under a literary name, but she did show up in person and was agreeable to answering questions about Nelson, except for the most personal. She said she wrote the book for two reasons, to give some biographical and true understanding of the Nelson she knew and to combine that with a novel idea that she wanted to tell. It’s a long book but but thoughtful and well worth reading on many levels. On a related subject, when asked about Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, as in “did they or didn’t they?” she answered that they in fact “did,” that Nelson himself told her and she learned from him some of the details over the years.

To learn more about the author read an interview with her here.

To order the book on Kindle, click here.

February 21, 2013

Jeanette MacDonald funeral footage showing Nelson Eddy

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Watch a short clip from ITN news covering the funeral of Jeanette MacDonald.  When you click on the link , which opens in a new window, scroll to the bottom of the page and then click on the orange button: “Play Clip.”

Nelson Eddy is featured making his entrance. Gale Sherwood and Ann Franklin have already arrived and walk separately from him (with Gale trailing Ann).  Nelson walks past Gale and licks his lower lip as he approaches Ann. He looks like he’s trying to compose himself. Then photographers step in front of his face and raise their cameras to get a good shot. Nelson doesn’t walk beside Ann but seems to cut left behind her. This short clip ends with Jeanette’s casket arriving in the hearse. Heartbreaking.

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After watching it a few times, you can learn more about what went on behind the scenes by watching the “Master Class” video here.

 

February 21, 2013

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.

February 21, 2013

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.

February 19, 2013

“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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