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Nelson Eddy is a Actor and Sculptor American born on 29 june 1901 at Providence (USA)

Nelson Eddy

Nelson Eddy
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Birth name Nelson Ackerman Eddy
Nationality USA
Birth 29 june 1901 at Providence (USA)
Death 6 march 1967 (at 65 years) at Providence (USA)

Nelson Ackerman Eddy (June 29, 1901 – March 6, 1967) was an American singer and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred with soprano Jeanette MacDonald. He was one of the first "crossover" stars, a superstar appealing both to shrieking bobby soxers as well as opera purists, and in his heyday was the highest paid singer in the world.

During his 40-year career, he earned three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (one each for film, recording, and radio), left his footprints in the wet cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater, earned three Gold records, and was invited to sing at the third inauguration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941. He also introduced millions of young Americans to classical music and inspired many of them to pursue a musical career.

Biography

Eddy married Ann Denitz Franklin, former wife of noted director Sidney Franklin, on January 19, 1939. Her son, Sidney Jr., became Eddy's stepson, but she and Nelson had no children of their own. They were married for 27 years, until Nelson's death. Ann Eddy never remarried after Nelson's death and died on August 28, 1987. She is buried next to Nelson and his mother, Isabel, in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.


Eddy/MacDonald romance
John Kenneth Hilliard, a sound engineer backstage at MGM from 1933 to 1942, reported in 1981 that though Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald were a screen couple, they "hated each other with a vengeance". Despite their ups and downs, an off-screen affair was verified by Jim Bayless, another MGM sound engineer from 1929 to 1942 who built Eddy's home recording equipment in 1934 and taught him how to record multi-track harmonies with himself; this resulted in Eddy recording a record album of 4-part harmony. Bayless later left MGM to be Vice President for newly formed Capitol Records but remained friends with Eddy and for many years recorded Eddy's weekly radio shows for him to critique on disc. Other MGM staff who verified the relationship included their makeup artists William Tuttle and Fred Phillips and fellow singers Miliza Korjus and Rise Stevens.

Sweethearts by Sharon Rich, a biography first published in 1994 and updated and expanded in 2014, claims that MacDonald's marriage to Gene Raymond was engineered by studio boss Louis B. Mayer to prevent Eddy from marrying MacDonald. Rich's original source for this information was Jeanette MacDonald's older sister, actress Blossom Rock. The Eddy-MacDonald romance appears again in print in The Golden Girls of MGM by Jane Ellen Wayne. In these books, it is reported that Eddy's relationship with MacDonald began in late 1933 and continued, with a few breaks, until her death in 1965. Newsreel footage from MacDonald's funeral shows Eddy as the last person exiting the chapel, he is circled by other celebrities such as Lauritz Melchior who offer him condolences. Many of Eddy's personal letters and diary entries indicating a rocky romance with MacDonald were reproduced in Sweethearts.


Intimate relationship with Laurrie Garner
Eddy was intimately involved with author Laurrie Garner who writes about him in her books.

Best films

Naughty Marietta (1935)
(Actor)
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
(Actor)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Nelson Eddy (25 films)

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Actor

That's Entertainment! III, 1h53
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities, Musical films, Documentary films about films
Actors Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Cyd Charisse, Lena Horne, Howard Keel, Esther Williams
Roles (archive footage)
Rating74% 3.7388153.7388153.7388153.7388153.738815
Troisième volet de "Il était une fois Hollywood", "That's Entertainment III" nous propose un nouveau panorama de l'age d'or de la MGM mais aussi des chutes rarissimes, des séquences coupées lors de la sortie des films et des essais d'autres stars que celles qui furent finalement choisies.
That's Entertainment!, 2h15
Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities, Musical films, Documentary films about films
Actors Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli
Roles (archive footage)
Rating77% 3.89473.89473.89473.89473.8947
Cette nostalgique leçon d'histoire recèle les trésors cachés des plus grandes comédies musicales de la MGM ainsi que de nombreux autres extraits merveilleux mais moins célèbres, avec Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Eleanor Powell et même Clark Gable chantant et dansant. « Il était une fois Hollywood » est une véritable gourmandise pour cinéphiles et amateurs de comédies musicales.
Northwest Outpost, 1h31
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Nelson Eddy, Hugo Haas, Ilona Massey, Joseph Schildkraut, Elsa Lanchester, Lenore Ulric
Roles Captain Jim Laurence
Rating62% 3.141163.141163.141163.141163.14116
The film is set at the Russian imperial post at Fort Ross in California in the early Nineteenth Century. A visiting American army offices becomes romantically involved with an aristocratic woman whose criminal husband is being held as a prisoner at the Fort.
Make Mine Music, 1h15
Directed by Joe Grant, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Joshua Meador, Jack Kinney
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Musical, Animation
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, Jerry Colonna, Sterling Holloway, Andy Russell, Ken Darby
Roles Narrator / Characters (segment "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met") (voice)
Rating61% 3.0909253.0909253.0909253.0909253.090925
Le film se présente comme une séance dans une salle de spectacle. Il se compose de dix séquences nommées différemment lors de leurs rééditions en dehors du long métrage :
Willie the Operatic Whale, 15minutes
Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Cétacé, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un cétacé
Actors Nelson Eddy
Roles Narrator
Rating74% 3.7106553.7106553.7106553.7106553.710655
C'est le triste destin d'une baleine, chanteuse d'opéra, depuis sa découverte dans les mers jusqu'à sa chute le succès passé, qui tombe sous les coups de harpons d'hommes bien mal intentionnés.
Phantom of the Opera, 1h32
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Ghost films, Musical films
Actors Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier, Frank Puglia, Fritz Leiber
Roles Anatole Garron
Rating63% 3.1978053.1978053.1978053.1978053.197805
Erique Claudin (Claude Rains) had been a violinist at the Paris Opera House for twenty years. However he has been losing the use of the fingers of his left hand, which affects his violin-playing. He is dismissed because of this, the conductor of the opera house assuming that he has enough money to support himself. This is not the case however, for Claudin has spent it all by anonymously funding the music lessons of Christine Dubois (Susanna Foster), a young soprano whom Claudin has secretly fallen in love with. In a desperate attempt to gain money, Claudin tries to get a concerto he has written published. After submitting it and not hearing a response, he becomes worried and returns to the publishers, Maurice Pleyel & Georgette Desjardins, to ask about it. No one there knows what happened to it, and do not seem to care. Claudin persists, but Pleyel rudely tells him to leave and goes back to the etchings he was working on.
The Chocolate Soldier, 1h42
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Nelson Eddy, Risë Stevens, Nigel Bruce, Florence Bates, Nydia Westman, Charles Judels
Roles Karl Lang
Rating60% 3.0042453.0042453.0042453.0042453.004245
Karl Lang and Maria Lanyi are not only successful musical performers, they have also recently been married. However, both suffer pangs of jealousy where the other is concerned, since both receive quite a bit of attention from members of the opposite sex. Karl's jealousy is heightened, however, when Maria tells him that she intends to leave their current musical comedy career and seek a career in opera. Karl sees it as a pretext to spend more time away from him.
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound, 11minutes
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Clark Gable, Greer Garson, W. S. Van Dyke, Hedy Lamarr
Roles Self
Rating54% 2.720472.720472.720472.720472.72047
The film starts with a brief introduction to the work of Thomas A. Edison and a clip from William K.L. Dickson's Dickson Experimental Sound Film (c. 1894). Douglas Shearer then presents a behind the scenes look at the filming of W.S. Van Dyke's Bitter Sweet (1940) featuring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy to explain how the sound is recorded. A scene from King Vidor's Comrade X (1940) featuring Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr is used to demonstrate the final result. The film concludes with a montage from trailers for coming MGM pictures and a Technicolor screen test of Greer Garson for Mervyn LeRoy's Blossoms in the Dust (1941).
New Moon
New Moon (1940)
, 1h45
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke, Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mary Boland, George Zucco, Ivan F. Simpson, H. B. Warner
Roles Charles
Rating66% 3.343413.343413.343413.343413.34341
During the 18th century in New Orleans, Louisiana, a French nobleman in disguise as a bondsman, Charles (Nelson Eddy) leads his fellow bondsman in revolt against his ship's captain, commandeering the ship and heading out to sea.
Bitter Sweet, 1h34
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, George Sanders, Ian Hunter, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart
Roles Carl Linden
Rating58% 2.9033152.9033152.9033152.9033152.903315
Set in late 19th century Vienna, the story focuses on the romance between music teacher Carl Linden (Nelson Eddy) and his prize pupil Sarah Milick (Jeanette MacDonald).
Balalaika
Balalaika (1939)
, 1h42
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Charles Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, C. Aubrey Smith, Frank Morgan
Roles Prince Peter Karagin, aka Peter Teranda
Rating61% 3.0944953.0944953.0944953.0944953.094495
In 1914 Tsarist Russia, Prince Peter Karagin (Nelson Eddy) is a captain of the Cossack Guards, riding home from manoeuvres to an evening of wine, women and song at St. Petersburg's Cafe Balalaika. The Balalaika's new star, Lydia Pavlovna Marakova (Ilona Massey), is blackmailed into attending the officers' party and is expected to choose a "favoured one." She intrigues Karagin when she makes good her escape instead.