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Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy Interactive Biography
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy Interactive Biography
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald had private lives, like most film stars, outside of the public eye. In a pre-paparazzi era, much was still documented by fans who followed their every move, attended concerts and weekly radio shows, and coordinated with a network of other fans. Yet fans occassionaly (or often) saw them together in private moments and wrote hundreds of pages of letters documenting this!
And photographs tell their own story. Here, for the first time, is a chance for you to study 100 photos of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, listen to sound clips and interviews, have important questions answered so you can see for yourself how the Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy relationship affected their life choices and careers. For some, it has been a matter of "what you believe." We think that it's not a matter of "belief" as much as "what does the documentation show?" Some of it is quite blatantly obvious when you use your own powers of observation. We've put together much of it here, so study for yourself and draw your own conclusions!
You might also want to watch the movies again and see various observations that are pointed out in the text.
There are five chapters to the online "light" version of this Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy biography. The photos accompanying the text are small, "thumbnail" sized photos. The CD-ROM edition includes many more pages of text plus 60 more photos, including one from every movie they made, and more candid shots. Additionally, the CD-ROM allows you to click on every "thumbnail" photo to take you to larger, full-page photos. For example, click here or on the photo of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald on this page to see a larger version. There are also portraits that you can use to make screen savers for yourself! See the column to the left for ordering details, and meanwhile, enjoy a sampling of our Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy Interactive Biography!
NOTE: You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read the PDF biography online. (A copy of it is included on the CD-Rom as well.) This is a free program; if you need to download it, here is the link.
If you have WebTV or prefer to see the html pages, you can now access the online Biography as well by clicking on the following links:Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five
Table of Contents (online PDF edition):
PART ONE: The early days through "Naughty Marietta"
A companion volume to the book Sweethearts, "Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy: Interactive Biography" is a complete picture book on CD-Rom that includes:
1. More pages of text, 60 more photos, sound files plus more! Interviews include Nelson discussing his temper, Jeanette's thoughts on her life, and Nelson breaking down the day Jeanette died.
2. Click on any of the small thumbnail photos to see a much larger version of the photo! (Click on the photo above for sample. It's a large file and will take awhile to load off the Internet whereas on the CD all the photos will load much faster!)
3. Color portraits of each star (choose your favorite for a screen saver, or wallpaper!). Plus sound clips that are too large to load onto the web site!
NOTE: Computer requirements include a CD-ROM, a browser and Acrobat Reader.
(c) 2000 by Sharon Rich. All rights reserved. All quotes were originally published (with their sources documented) in the book Sweethearts, (c)1994, 2001 by Sharon Rich. All photos are from the author's collection and have been reproduced either in "Sweethearts" or issues of the magazine Mac/Eddy Today (c) 1977-2000 by the Mac/Eddy Club, and are under appropriate copyright.
