Jeanette MacDonald
Birthday: 1903-06-18
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jeanette MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime). During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture Oscars (The Love Parade, One Hour with You, Naughty Marietta and San Francisco), and recorded extensively, earning three gold records. She later appeared in grand opera, concerts, radio, and television. MacDonald was one of the most influential sopranos of the 20th century, introducing grand opera to movie-going audiences and inspiring a generation of singers.
Movies
Love Me Tonight
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess livi...
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Follow the Boys
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star...
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One Hour with You
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatiou...
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Cairo
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Alli...
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Sweethearts
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning ...
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The Girl of the Golden West
A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer....
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The Firefly
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her...
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Maytime
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teache...
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The Merry Widow
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country....
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San Francisco
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days befo...
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Rose Marie
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive bro...
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Naughty Marietta
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escape...
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The Love Parade
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying....
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The Cat and the Fiddle
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer....
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Bitter Sweet
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle ...
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Monte Carlo
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino....
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Three Daring Daughters
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband....
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The Sun Comes Up
Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness...
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Broadway Serenade
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audi...
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Smilin' Through
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moon...
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Let's Go Native
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Bro...
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The Lottery Bride
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway....
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The Vagabond King
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Loui...
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Don't Bet on Women
At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marria...
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-5
Stars Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier and Ken Maynard....
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Annabelle's Affairs
After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other trul...
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That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi...
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I Married an Angel
A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven sh...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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That's Entertainment! III
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929...
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The Romance of Celluloid
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the m...
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Oh, for a Man!
Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It ...
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind th...
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a ha...
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The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scen...
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Hollywood Goes to Town
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film c...
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life....
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Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
A look at the screen triumphs and private lives of the screen's number-one singing team....
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
A two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s....
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Prima Donna
A famous singer discovers a newsboy with vocal talent, but he would rather play baseball than develo...
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Where's Charley?
Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the ...
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