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16 comments

• Florence Quartavodka says:

  Jeanette MacDonald was the greatest Lirico Spinto Drammatico Coloratura Prima Donna Assoluta of all time.

  on June 18, 2010 at 10:39 AM
  • La Cieca says:

    And, if that film clip is to be believed, was an early champion of the Regie stylings of Stefan Herheim.

    on June 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM
• brooklynpunk says:

  Jeanette ..SINGING MEYERBEER….!!—WHAT MOVIE IS THIS FROM…??

  on June 18, 2010 at 11:13 AM
  • Florence Quartavodka says:

    MAYTIME (1937)

    on June 18, 2010 at 11:16 AM
    • brooklynpunk says:

      Florence

      Thanks for that..and I was AFRAID it was gonna be one of the standard flicks that would show me up and embarrass the crap outta me…for never having seen before…..!! lol…!!!

      Guess i have to look fer “Maytime ” at the Library, later today…..

      on June 18, 2010 at 11:20 AM
• Sanford says:

  I have always adored her. I think she is gorgeous, especially in Technicolor, and I think she was a pretty good actress. I think the best movie she made, certainly with Nelson Eddy, was Sweethearts, where she looks like a million bucks (she had a great figure and Adrian designed gorgeous clothes for her) and to which Dorothy Parker contributed to the screenplay.

  on June 18, 2010 at 12:19 PM
• angeladorable says:

  There’s also a great duet Jeanette and Nelson Eddy do at the end of the movie in the”opera Czarina”.Hollywood sure knew how to put on a great show back then.

  on June 18, 2010 at 12:21 PM
• brooklynpunk says:

  I’ve always been a sukka for her in “San Francisco” and “Love Me Tonight”…I have to check out her other movies……

  on June 18, 2010 at 12:26 PM
  • SF Guy says:

    Turner Classic Movies has been airing nonstop Jeanette today since the wee hours, with several more to come. (Bitter Sweet starts at 1pm eastern/10am west coast). Unfortunately, some of the best ones (Merry Widow, Naughty Marietta) have already come and gone, but knowing TCM, they’ll be back soon enough.

    on June 18, 2010 at 12:38 PM
  • operaspike says:

    Ya just gotta luvs ya some “San Francisco”…the movie and her singing that classic song in the middle of the Great Earthquake. I have seen this so many times starting back when I was a little bit of a thing sitting in front of the black and white Hoffman TV (who else remembers those televisions?). It’s a classic movie with a classic and classy cast with MacDonald, Gable and Tracy. I also saw many other MacDonald movies on that old TV with Nelson Eddy, Allan Jones…

    on June 18, 2010 at 2:59 PM
    • brooklynpunk says:

      Operaspike:

      .. I used to watch it all the time , on the ‘ol Philco set..when “Million Dollar Movie” (NOW i’m dating myself real bad……lol…!!) would show the same movie every day, all week……..

      on June 18, 2010 at 3:04 PM
• papopera says:

  That’s very easy, we all know Manon of course

  on June 18, 2010 at 8:46 PM
• louannd says:

  It wasn’t but three weeks ago that my mother and I were enjoying Jeanette and Eddy on the Youtube and my mother fondly reminiscing about her memories of those days.

  on June 18, 2010 at 10:54 PM
• operacat says:

  what is really amazing is that the films of MacDonald and Eddy are not yet available on DVD. I do love Naughty Marietta, Maytime, Sweethearts and RoseMarie. . .and the score at least to the awful BITTERSWEET. and there is something really surreal about I MARRIED AN ANGEL. At least her early Lubitsch musicals are available, THE LOVE PARADE is especially wonderful.

  on June 19, 2010 at 12:28 AM
  • operacat says:

    the Criterion collection of the early Lubitsch musicals is wonderful. Tell me there is no better opening to a movie than the opening to THE LOVE PARADE between Lillian Roth and Maurice Chevalier . . .
    It is also interesting that MGM originally tried to pair MacDonald with the very beautiful, very gay Ramon Novarro in THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE. Novarro is very charming. . what ultimately killed his career wasnt his homosexuality. . it was that he was Mexican.

    on June 19, 2010 at 12:35 AM
    • operacat says:

      the opening to LOVE PARADE can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHfLUPywjfw

      on June 19, 2010 at 12:39 AM