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Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade, Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow and One Hour With You) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime).During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture ...
Jeanette MacDonald. Actress: Cairo. She was the third daughter of Daniel and Anne MacDonald, younger sister to Blossom (MGM's character actress Marie Blake), whom she followed to New York and a chorus job in 1920. She was busy in a string of musical productions. In 1928 Paramount tested and rejected her, but a year later Ernst Lubitsch saw her test and picked her to play opposite Maurice ...
MacDonald in a promotional photo for The Merry Widow (1934).. The following features lists of the film, television and stage performances of actress and singer Jeanette MacDonald (1903 – 1965). She is best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade, Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow and One Hour With You) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie ...
Jeanette MacDonald, American Soprano (1903 – 1965)Nelson Eddy, American Baritone (1901 – 1967)Adapted from Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony” by Sigmund Romber...
Jun 29, 2024 · The latest Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy magazine, Issue #78, was officially released at our Los Angeles event! Journal #78 features our Interview issue, with transcripts of the following: 1) an annotated, little-known 1959 interview with Jeanette, in which she speaks candidly on some different topics than other interviews, discussing friendships ranging from Jean Harlow to Woody Van Dyke.
Jeanette MacDonald, born on June 18, 1903, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, blossomed into a star whose light shone brightly in the realms of cinema and music. With an air of sophistication and a voice that could effortlessly glide through octaves
Sep 23, 2020 · She starred, through more than a decade, in (not always recognizable) film versions of The Vagabond King (1930), The Cat and the Fiddle (1934), The Merry Widow (1934), Naughty Marietta (1935), Rose Marie (1936), The Firefly (1937), Maytime (1937), Sweethearts (1938), Bitter-Sweet (1940) and I Married an Angel (1942), as well as in such made-for-the-screen musical movies as The Love Parade, One ...
In Maurice Chevalier …which he often costarred with Jeanette MacDonald—e.g., The Love Parade (1930), One Hour with You (1932), Love Me Tonight (1932), and The Merry Widow (1934). Read More; Leonard. In Robert Z. Leonard: Dancing Lady to Ziegfeld Girl …entrusted with the career of Jeanette MacDonald, one of the industry’s most-reliable attractions at the box office.
The 1950s found Jeanette MacDonald in the Las Vegas nightclub circuit, television and on national road tour productions such as "The King and I." In her final years, MacDonald developed a serious heart condition. She died on January 14, 1965 in Houston, Texas while awaiting heart surgery; her husband Gene Raymond was at her bedside. She was 61.
Singer/actor Jeanette MacDonald was one of the very first stars of motion-picture musicals. Born in Philadelphia, PA, on June 18, 1903, MacDonald inherited her love of singing and dancing from her two older sisters (her eldest sister, Elsie, taught MacDonald songs at a very early age). At the age of six, MacDonald made her first […]
