Jeanette MacDonald
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| Nickname: |
Jenni, JAM |
| Known for: |
San Francisco, Naughty Marietta, Bitter Sweet |
| Birth name: |
Jeanette Anna MacDonald |
| Birthday: |
18 June 1903,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Height: |
5' 4" (1.63 m) |
| Available Photos |
7 |
Trivia
Originally wanted to be married on the 17th as it was the anniversary of their first date, but the church was unavailable and so they opted for the 16th.
Sister of actress
Marie Blake
Born at 6:58am-EST
Made 1 movie with husband
Gene Raymond Smilin' Through
Favorite film was
Maytime
Still has a large fan club, "The
Jeanette MacDonald International Fan Club"
she was given a honorary degree, 'Doctor of Music' from Ithaca College, New York. [30 May 1953]
Jeanette's crowned "Queen of the movies" by 22,000,000 filmgoers in a New York Daily News Survey. [1939]
Screen Actors Guild awarded Jeanette the 'Best Performance Award', for Maytime (1937) [1937]
Jeanette was immortalized in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood. [4 December 1934]
Has blue-green eyes.
In many of Judy Garland's concerts, she featured "San Francisco, a song that MacDonald sang in San Francisco (1936) with Clark Gable. When Garland sang it, she sometimes added to the beginning, "I never will forget Jeanette MacDonald. Just to think of her, it gives my heart a pang. I never will forget just how that brave Jeanette just stood there, in the ruins, and sang. And sang." And then Judy would sing it. Jeanette was approached about it, and she said, "Oh, I don't mind... As long as it's Judy!"
Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Freedom Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Heritage.
Measurements: 35-27 1/4-33 (MGM desinger Adrian), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Her duets with Nelson Eddy are lampooned in the musical "A Day In Hollywood/A Night In The Ukraine." In the show, a movie star named Jeanette sings the song, "Oh, Nelson, What You're Putting Me Through" -- an operatic lament about her boring co-star -- while standing with a mannequin dressed in a Canadian Mounties uniform.
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