Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy were "America's Singing Sweethearts" of the 1930s. They starred in classic movies like Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie, Maytime, The Girl of the Golden West, New Moon, in live opera, on radio and in early television... And yes, Virginia, they did have an off-screen romance but because of MGM studio boss Louis B. Mayer, never married each other. If you are already a fan of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy or are just discovering them - Welcome!
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The Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy 1936 recording of "Indian Love Call" is a 2008 inductee in the Grammy Hall of Fame! Learn more and listen to it here! If you have recently watched the Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy films or dvds and are wondering what was going on "behind the scenes," read Sweethearts, the biography that Robert Osborne says "offers considerable proof they may have been secret lovers for years." Jane Ellen Wayne, author of The Leading Men of MGM, adds: "You will enjoy every word of Sweethearts and you will find a new meaning when viewing their musicals. Then you’ll read it a second time." |
