Why did Nelson Eddy not marry Jeanette MacDonald?

Why did Nelson Eddy not marry Jeanette MacDonald?

At first, MacDonald turned down Eddy’s offers of marriage because he wanted her to give up her film career, said Rich, who got interested in the pair as a teenager when she met MacDonald’s sister. Even some of the MacDonald/Eddy club members, however, find Rich’s revelations controversial.

Did Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy have a relationship?

Despite all the high drama, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy had a fierce, spiritual bond and loved each other to the end.

Did Jeanette MacDonald do her own singing in the movie San Francisco?

San Francisco is a 1936 musical-drama disaster film directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The very popular singing of MacDonald helped make this film a major hit, coming on the heels of her other 1936 blockbuster, Rose Marie.

Is Jeanette MacDonald still alive?

Deceased (1903–1965)
Jeanette MacDonald/Living or Deceased

Did Jeanette MacDonald have red hair?

MacDonald was the only daughter in the family that had inherited both her father’s red hair and blue-green eyes, although she often admired her sisters’ beauty, such as Blossom’s dimples and her elder sister Elsie’s (1893—1970) blonde hair and blue eyes.

How tall is Jeanette MacDonald?

1.63 m
Jeanette MacDonald/Height

What color hair did Jeanette MacDonald have?

Director W. S. Van Dyke II provides sophistication, the Dorothy Parker-Alan Campbell script provides rapier wit and the Oscar(r)-winning cinematography* provides proof the ravishing, red-haired MacDonald was born for Technicolor(r).

Who married Jeanette MacDonald?

Gene Raymondm. 1937–1965
Jeanette MacDonald/Spouse
Gene Raymond, the suave, good-looking blond actor who ranged from Broadway to Hollywood to radio and television but was perhaps best known for his storybook marriage to singing star Jeanette MacDonald, has died.

How old was Jeanette MacDonald?

61 years (1903–1965)
Jeanette MacDonald/Age at death

Why did Nelson Eddy not marry Jeanette MacDonald? At first, MacDonald turned down Eddy’s offers of marriage because he wanted her to give up her film career, said Rich, who got interested in the pair as a teenager when she met MacDonald’s sister. Even some of the MacDonald/Eddy club members, however, find Rich’s revelations controversial.…