Nelson Eddy - America's Favorite Baritone: An Authorized Tribute |
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| Title: | Nelson Eddy - America's Favorite Baritone: An Authorized Tribute |
| Author: | Gail Lulay |
| Publisher: | iUniverse |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 18 October, 2000 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0595138799 / 9780595138791 |
| List Price: | $14.95 |
| Amazon Price: | $14.95 |
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Product Description
When MGM paired Nelson with Jeanette MacDonald in "Naughty Marietta", America's Sweethearts were born. They became a source of frenzied curiosity for years to come. Rumors of their feuds and love affairs abounded. Nelson was fiercely protective of his private life, even aloof at times, but always captivating, always charming and always, always...a gentleman. Little known anecdotes and stories of Nelson the concert singer, the radio personality, the motion picture idol, and the multitalented painter and sculptor bring him to life. Then when movies lost their gilded edge, he risked his career by bypassing the wave of the future, television. He and his partner, Gale Sherwood, became the hottest nightclub act of the fifties. From opera to the nitery crowd, Nelson did it all. It is all here...his triumphs and his private heartbreaks, his insecurities and dreams. His sister Ginny says, "It's Nelson to a tee".
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Customer Reviews:
• Don't Be So Hard On This Book
12 June, 2004
Certainly Ms. Lulay isn't the best author ever, but one has to admire her for portraying Nelson as a more believeable person than another author has done.It's nice to read a book about someone by someone who isn't out to unearth the sins and scandals of a Hollywood person. It's nice to know that out there there are other people who agree with me on the point that Nelson was a gentleman who loved his wife - not some abusive, alcholic, obsessive person out to rape his leading lady. Nelson's reputation as a person while he was alive so contradicted this odd view that one has to believe Lulay is much closer to the truth.What's wrong with a man who likes to read and spends a quiet life at home, shut away from the world when not performing? Nothing. I think that's rather normal. It's certainly far more admirable and more refreshing to think about than illicit affairs and the like.This book is easy to read and I recommend it far above the other book out there that (sadly) most people run into first.I'm sure I'll receive flack from people for having said a good word for this book, but that's OK. It's my opinion, and I'm not going to force it on anyone.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Save Your Money...don't Buy This Book
01 August, 2002
Anyone who claims to be a Nelson Eddy/Jeanette MacDonald fan, then writes a tepid 'sugar coated' biography deserves to have scathing reviews heaped upon the book. This is one of the worst biographies I have ever read. Almost everything in here has a false note to it. Any Eddy fan knows that the love of his life was Jeanette MacDonald and that Ann Eddy only used him for his name and stature. Aside from all the untruths in this book, the rest of it is all mish/mash and fodder. This book does a great injustice to a great singer and a fine actor. If you want to get the real Nelson Eddy story...read "Sweethearts" by Sharon Rich. There you will get the real truth and I wonder why biographers continually support the myth that both Eddy and MacDonald were happily married to others. Nothing could be further from the truth. Save your money folks....this book is not worth it, believe me!
- Amazon Customer Review
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