Jeanette MacDonald in Mother’s Day screening of “Three Daring Daughters”

Jeanette MacDonald and co-stars in "Three Daring Daughters" (1948)
Jeanette MacDonald and co-stars in "Three Daring Daughters" (1948)

Mother’s Day TCM alert! Set your VCR/DVR, etc.!

May 9 – 8:00 AM Eastern Time Three Daring Daughters (1948)

Three young girls try to help their widowed mother find the right husband. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Jane Powell, Jose Iturbi. Dir: Fred M. Wilcox. C-115 mins, TV-G

Jose Iturbi ain’t Nelson Eddy…but besides seeing Jeanette in gorgeous Technicolor, there are some memorable moments in this wanna-be remake of Deanna Durbin’s Three Smart Girls. Watch as Jeanette sings a nostalgic version of “Sweethearts.” Also, her duet with Jane Powell (Grieg’s “Springtide”) is gorgeous. And finally, Jeanette’s irritating cruise dining partner “Mrs. Smith” is played by Moyna McGill – better known as the mother of Angela Lansbury!

Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy: We get mail…

Fan letter from "A Scandalous Affair"
Fan letter from "A Scandalous Affair"

A fan letter from the Altoona, PA Mishler Theatre production of the Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy story, “A Scandalous Affair” starring Hallie Neill and Theodore Lambrinos:

Dear Sharon

I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know I was at the showing of A Scandalous Affair at the Mishler Theatre in Altoona. My son took us and we had a wonderful time. Jeanette and Nelson would be proud to know their story was being told so lovingly and with truth.

Thank you for everything you do.

Eva, Patrick, Michele and Susie Irwin

Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy: Live tweeting a week in the life of a film historian!

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Follow us at twitter.com/maceddyclub

Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy fans: Join me for a week of live-tweeting of what it’s like to be me – a film historian researching and interacting with anything and everyone that can provide more information about – you guessed it – Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy!

I meant to start this on Saturday while in Altoona, PA, for the performance of  “A Scandalous Affair.”  The Mishler Theater there has the original chandelier used in the 1937 Jeanette-Nelson movie Maytime. The story of how the theater got this amazing piece of movie history was what led to the show about their lives being produced there. Anyway, I attempted to take a photo of the chandelier with my new phone camera but was all thumbs attempting to upload the picture as a tweet.  There was so much going on that I never had a free moment from them on to try to tweet anything. But…considering that some very awesome stuff has happened since then, I’m going to return to the original plan and fill everyone in.

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