Jeanette Mac Donald - What do you think? Allure?
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Jeanette Mac Donald
Jeanette Anna MacDonald was born on June 18, 1903, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She took dance lessons as a young girl, but she later turned to singing, landing several choice roles in Broadway musicals. She was screen-tested and signed by Paramount Pictures, and her first appearance was in The Love Parade (1929) with Maurice Chevalier. The film propelled Jeannette and Chevalier to stardom and started the Hollywood career of director Ernst Lubitsch. The second of her twenty-nine films was also a box-office hit, but even with those successes, for some reason the Paramount bosses never really liked her, and she was dropped by the studio. In 1934 she signed with MGM, and after a year began her teaming with Nelson Eddy, first in the film Naughty Marietta (1935). The two were to become as famous a singing team as Fred and Ginger were a dancing team. A year later she stared with Clark Gable in San Francisco. Jeanette died of heart failure in 1965, but there is still an active Jeanette fan club.
Jeanette Mac Donald - What do you think? Allure?
Jeanette Mac Donald - What do you think? Allure?
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I would say no, I've always heard Jeanette MacDonald was a huge bore (and her movies don't do much to dispute this rumour). That's negative, but on a more positive note: I really like your site! I'd vote yes on most of the others (especially the Crawford Photoplay covers - wow). I'm going to put a link to your blog on mine. Keep up the good work!
I actually have to agree with you as regards her film work. I had to be somewhat selective on the cards as well - I have a couple of her that definitely would not make this page; :-)
Glad you like the blog - I have added a link to yours - a very nice site indeed.
She was good-looking and made a few good movies, like San Francisco and Love Me Tonight (that last I haven't seen and it caused me to flunk a screen capture quiz recently!) But most of her operettas haven't aged very well at all, and neither has her sort of Dresden-bulldog good looks, in my honest opinion.
Man, looks like this gal can't get a break :-). And as I mentioned above, it wasn't selecting the cards themselves - in the other few I have of her, she really doesn't shine.
i would say you folks are not looking or listening-jeanette macdonald was a beautiful and talented singer/actress-but most important was the emotion that came from her while singing
nelson and jeanette were like rock stars of thier era- there is not one club today but many
j and n's voices blended so beautifully that to seems as one
perhaps they have aged in todays world of reality tv and hard cool movies with violence and computer graphics-
todays singers need to double track thier voices-where if you play any j and n songs thier voices fill the room- i strongly disagree she was very alluring-
She certainly had allure; She was beautiful, full of fun; given to practical jokes and spoken well of by members of cast and crew. I guwss the people who found her to be rude, were those who invaded her privaccy. Not for nothing was this dainty lady called The Iron Butterfly. Sorry so many people here don't agree with my views, but I know a whole lotof others who do. Guess we are all entitled to an oppinion. Great blog by the way.
If Jeanette MacDonald did not have allure, then no woman in Hollywodd ever did. She was pure MAGIC and it still shows today. the most beautiful woman ever in the movies. And she could say more with her eyes than other actresses could say with a thousand words!!
She didn't die in 1961, but in 1965.
She was way better looking than the likes of Norma Shearer, or Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, or MANY of the other women of the era, so I don't know why she is being put down by some.
She was a great singer and very gifted in comedic roles. Give her a break.
Thanks - corrected the date - no idea why I had 1961 in there, must have been a late night editing session :-)
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