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	Jeanette MacDonald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jeanette MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was a singer and actress best known for her film duets with Nelson Eddy, in films such as Naughty Marietta (1935) and Rose-Marie (1936).
		Jeanette died in Houston, Texas of heart disease, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
		Jeanette MacDonald was given two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Recordings and Motion Pictures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeanette_MacDonald (766 words)

	Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald
		It is primarily an homage to Jeanette MacDonald, the dancer, singer, Broadway and Hollywood star, who entertained troops during World War 11, hobnobbed with the Eisenhowers and Nixons, but who never fulfilled her life's ambition of singing opera at the New York Metropolitan.
		Jeanette MacDonald is a significant figure for film history, but that isn't Turk's focus and much of his book is useless from that point of view.
		Jeanette MacDonald is also an extremely interesting figure from the point of view of the high/low culture split in US culture.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/shorts/reviews/rev0499/hmbrapr.htm (553 words)

	Jeanette MacDonald: Fan Tributes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jeanette Anna MacDonald was born on June 18, 1903, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to parents Daniel and Anna Macdonald.
		Jeanette began to train her voice in 1923 with Ferdinand Torriani and later would train with Grace Adele Newell (She was Jeanette's teacher from the time they met until Miss Newell's death in the 1950s, often living with Jeanette), realizing that she had to both sing and dance to become a big star on stage.
		Jeanette longed to be in grand opera while she was still in pictures and tried to land a solid operatic role to no avail.
	www.reeljewels.com /mac/MacBio.htm (609 words)

	Jeanette MacDonald at Classic Actresses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jeanette Anna MacDonald was born on June 18, 1903, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		Jeanette was a talented singer and went to New York to study music.
		Jeanette was unable to have children and their were rumors that Gene was gay.
	www.classicactresses.com /jeanette.html (304 words)

	Biography for Jeanette MacDonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jeanette soon became known as "The Iron Butterfly", for she was one of the most lady-like and beautiful women on the MGM lot, but when it came to her contracts, she was tough and could strike a deal quickly that suited her.
		Jeanette was a striking red-head, with big blue eyes and this made her an interest to many men at the studio.
		In 1935, MacDonald was paired with, Nelson Eddy in Naughty Marietta (1935).
	us.imdb.com /Bio?MacDonald,+Jeanette (1421 words)

	VanAnn as Jeanette MacDonald
		In the 1930s and 1940s Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy were known around the world as "America's Singing Sweethearts" and movie audiences adored them.
		Jeanette and Nelson were teamed together in "Naughty Marietta" in 1935, when the sparks they ignited made them one of the most memorable singing teams of all time.
		As Jeanette MacDonald's film career waned, she remained active making radio and television appearances (the latter being a new medium, and her TV stints are early classics, filled with creativity and experimentation).
	www.vanann.com /pages/VA_JM.html (311 words)

	Grave Hunter finds Jeanette MacDonald burial place (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jeanette made her professional debut at the age of six in a charity opera at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music.
		Jeanette went to Hollywood, and thus began the part of her career for which she is most well remembered.
		Jeanette filled the years of World War II with stage performances like many other actors while husband Gene Raymond served our country overseas as a bomber pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
	www.gravehunter.net /jeanette_macdonald.htm (249 words)

	Jeanette MacDonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jeanette MacDonald (June 18, 1903 –; January 14, 1965) was a singer and actress best known for her film duets with Nelson Eddy, such as Rose-Marie (aka Indian Love Call) (1936).
		Jeanette Anna MacDonald was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and made her professional debut at the age of six, singing "Old Mother Hubbard" in a charity opera at Philadelphia's Academy of Music.
		Jeanette MacDonald: The Irving Stone Letters annotated by Sharon Rich (2002), ISBN 0971199841, is a compilation of Jeanette's handwritten letters to a beau from her Broadway years (with whom she also discusses her Hollywood years), while Jeanette MacDonald Autobiography: The Lost Manuscript annotated by Sharon Rich (2004), ISBN 0971199884 presents MacDonald's unpublished autobiography.
	www.info-pedia.net /about/jeanette_macdonald (540 words)

	Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy: TCM’s Stars of the Month Hid a Secret Off-Screen Romance and Pregnancy
		MacDonald’s pregnancy was kept secret from the public and even initially from studio boss Louis B. Mayer.
		MacDonald and Eddy were so radiant on film that after one day of shooting “Sweethearts”; in fl-and-white, the film was switched to Technicolor.
		A pregnant Jeanette MacDonald with Nelson Eddy in "Sweethearts" (1938).
	www.prweb.com /releases/2006/3/prweb361165.htm (781 words)

	Divas - The Site / Acting Divas / Trivia Jeanette MacDonald
		According to the book "Sweethearts" MacDonald and Eddy were lovers on and off from 1935 until her death in 1965.
		Jeanette was a favorite of President Eisenhower and sang at the White House in November 1954.
		Jeanette started out in show business with her sister Blossom who took her along to the theater where they both had a dance act.
	www.divasthesite.com /Acting_Divas/Trivia/Trivia_Jeanette_MacDonald.htm (795 words)

	Jeanette MacDonald @ Filmbug
		Jeanette MacDonald was an opera singer and actress best known for her film duets with Nelson Eddy, such as Rose-Marie (aka Indian Love Call) (1936).
		Jeanette MacDonald performed on Broadway a further nine years, progressing to star, before she was chosen by the Hollywood director Ernst Lubitsch to play the lead in his new film musical The Love Parade in 1929.
		In 1937, Jeanette MacDonald married Gene Raymond, with whom she co-starred in 1941's Smilin' Through.
	www.filmbug.com /db/166768 (465 words)

	Press Clippings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thousands of pairs of these visual aids were focused on the shell to catch a close-up of beautiful Jeanette MacDonald as she came on stage for her debut at the Bowl with Leopold Stokowski and the Hollywood Bowl Symphony.
		One of the most impressive qualities of Jeanette MacDonald as an artist, besides her musicianship and good taste, is the spontaneity with which she sings.
		Her vocal resources judged by concert standards are limited, but she has studiously and sincerely developed them not only to a point of respectability but to a general degree of adequacy and versatility.
	marietta32.tripod.com /jeanette/id4.html (1329 words)

	Turk delves into life, career in bio of movie diva MacDonald - MIT News Office
		I'd discovered MacDonald a few years earlier and was so overwhelmed by her films that I decided to do a highbrow analytic study of the soprano voice in film comedy, using MacDonald's I Married an Angel as a case study.
		Jeanette and especially Jeanette and Nelson Eddy are acknowledged, but with a patronizing and condescending attitude.
		Jeanette MacDonald movies require you to be very open and alert; the plots are often complicated and melodramatic.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/1998/turk-1118.html (1368 words)

	Denny Jackson's Jeanette MacDonald Page
		Jeanette Anna MacDonald was born on June 18, 1903 in the fighting city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		Jeanette first became a dancer, after having dance lessons as a young girl, but later turned to singing where she landed several choice roles in Broadway musicals.
		In 1934, Jeanette signed with MGM and paired her with Ramon Novarro in THE CAT IN THE FIDDLE.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/2440/macdonald.html (479 words)

	San Francisco (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1906 San Francisco earthquake is the historical background for San Francisco, a 1936 movie romance film between a gambling hall tycoon, played by Clark Gable, and a promising but poor singer, portrayed by singer Jeanette MacDonald.
		The then very popular singing voice of Jeanette MacDonald in the female lead also helped make this film into a hit.
		The title song, composed by Walter Jurmann and Bronislaw Kaper, is sung by the Jeanette MacDonald character a half-dozen times in the film, and becomes in the end an anthem for survivors of the earthquake.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Francisco_(movie) (327 words)

	Jeanette MacDonald pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers.
		Given a screen test at Paramount's New York studio in 1929, she was chosen by director Ernst Lubitsch to costar with French singing sensation Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade the success of which made her one of the most popular female stars of the early talkie era.
		Pretty and vivacious (but, oddly, without much sex appeal), MacDonald's saucy characterizations in her early films for Lubitsch are quite at odds with the image she later presented as a star at MGM.
		MacDonald sang frequently on stage and in concert for years thereafter, but was eventually sidelined with a heart ailment, which contributed to her passing.
	www.perfectpeople.net /biopage.php3/cid=710 (257 words)

	Jeanette MacDonald Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But even more, it was her love for the entire world that brought rapture to Jeanette's voice--and rapture to those who sat entranced and silent as her message of love poured forth.
		Jeanette modeling one of her Adrian creations in MGM's Sweethearts
		Jeanette later in her life--her last official portrait
	members.aol.com /jmacfan (261 words)

	Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, separately and together, made movie history.
		You are invited to meet Jeanette and Nelson for the first time, or to learn more about their incredible careers.
		You'll also find an invitation to fall in love all over again - in love with the music, laughter, romance, and the heightened awareness of life's joys that is generated and personified by these two unique artists.
	www.dandugan.com /maytime (580 words)

	Jeanette MacDonald \| Nelson Eddy \| Cleveland Seniors \| Valentines Day
		Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy were stars of blockbuster MGM musicals like “Naughty Marietta,” “Rose Marie” and “Maytime,” the highest grossing international film of 1937.
		When MacDonald died in 1965 from a heart condition, Eddy drowned his sorrow in drink and worked non-stop until just two years later, he collapsed onstage in Miami with a fatal stroke.
		Eddy was a man of many talents and wrote a song for Jeanette called “My Wonder One.” He first sang it on his radio show in 1946 and shocked his fans.
	www.clevelandseniors.com /family/valnelson.htm (196 words)

	Hollywood Diva
		Jeanette MacDonald, the movie musical's first superstar, was an American original whose onscreen radiance mirrored a beguiling real-life personality.
		Based in large part on the author's exclusive access to MacDonald's private papers, including her unpublished memoir, this vivid, often touching biography transports us to a time when lavish musical films were major cultural events and a worldwide public eagerly awaited each new chance to fall under the singer's spell.
		What made MacDonald a woman for our times, readers will discover, was her uncommon courage: Onscreen, the actress portrayed strong charcters in pursuit of deep emotional fulfillment, often in defiance of social orthodoxy, while offscreen she personified energy, discipline, and practical intellect.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8073.html (595 words)

	Amazon.com: Hollywood Diva : A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald: Books: Edward Baron Turk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		MacDonald's straddling of "low" and "high" art, her ambivalence toward her "practical" movie career, and her quest to fill the spotlight as a serious operatic singer are poignant.
		MacDonald treasured her talant and her career, that her personal life was just as important to her.
		Jeanette is portrayed as an old fashioned, pathetic woman whose only purpose in life was being a wife.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520222539?v=glance (2171 words)

	TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
		The girls' aim is to reunite their mother (Jeanette MacDonald) with their foreign correspondent father in a simple plot adapted from the play The Birds and the Bees.
		MacDonald was particularly kind to Elinor Donahue (later of Father Knows Best TV fame) on the set of Three Daring Daughters.
		And while Jeanette MacDonald and Jane Powell performed their own songs, Ann Todd and Elinor Donahue's voices were dubbed by Pat Hyatt and Beverly Jean Garbo respectively.
	www.tcm.com /thismonth/article/?cid=74649 (1000 words)

	Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy - Filmography : Jeanette MacDonald \| Nelson Eddy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jeanette was completely cut out of the American version, though in the Spanish version she served as Mistress of Ceremonies, and sang one number with David Newell while floating in a gondola along the Grand Canal.
		Jeanette MacDonald on The Voice of Firestone Her first TV performance from 1950!
		Includes "This is Your Life," starring Jeanette MacDonald with surprise guest Nelson Eddy, "Prima Donna," a half-hour sitcom starring Jeanette, "Person to Person" with Edward R. Murrow interviewing Jeanette and Gene Raymond, etc.
	www.nelsoneddy.com /index.php?main_page=filmography (1586 words)

	A Tribute to Jeanette MacDonald
		Born Jeanette Anna MacDonald on June 18, 1903 in Philadelphia, Jeannette was trained as a dancer and then a singer, performing at an early age, and eventually starring on Broadway before beginning her film career in 1929, at the dawn of the sound era.
		Jeanette was first paired with Nelson Eddy in Naughty Marietta (1935), and Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy became the biggest musical team of their era, making seven more films together during the 30s and 40s.
		Jeanette's film career slowed after the early 1940s, although she performed before sold-out audiences in stage musicals and operas, and she eventually retired from films after her 1949 appearance in The Sun Comes Up, a Lassie film.
	www.classicmovies.org /articles/aa061503a.htm (933 words)

	American Idols of the 1930s, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, Were Also Secret Lovers
		In 1945, when Eddy and MacDonald had left MGM and were considering producing their own films, one of Eddy’s fan club presidents went on live radio and denounced MacDonald as a co-star.
		By contract, Eddy and MacDonald were imprisoned by their fame, not allowed to marry without studio permission (which was refused).
		The poignant love story of America’s singing idols Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald is told in the biography “Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Affair On-screen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy” by Sharon Rich.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2006/5/prweb389769.htm (718 words)

	Jeanette MacDonald: America's Shining Soprano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She was the elegent queen of the operetta in the 1930's and still has a large fan base to this day.
		She would have turned 100 on June 18, 2003 and this site was created at that time to celebrate the talented women that Jeanette was.
		They are the fans that want Jeanette to be in the spotlight for many years to come, sharing the wonderful talent that she had.
	marietta32.tripod.com /jeanette (120 words)

	Janette MacDonald Nelson Eddy
		Jeanette Anna MacDonald was born in Philadelphia, PA 18 JUN 1903
		MacDonald's first starring role was in Yes, Yes, Yvette in 1927.
		MacDonald married actor and composer Gene Raymond, whose songs she performed in her concert programs.
	www.angelfire.com /ab/day/neljan.html (207 words)

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