Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Affair -- On-Screen and Off -- Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, updated edition |
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| Title: | Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Affair -- On-Screen and Off -- Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, updated edition |
| Author: | Sharon Rich |
| Publisher: | Bell Harbour Press |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 01 January, 2002 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0971199817 / 9780971199811 |
| List Price: | $32.95 |
| Amazon Price: | $32.95 |
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Product Description
"Sweethearts" is the true story of one of Hollywood's greatest cover-ups: the love affair between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. Known as 'America's Singing Sweethearts' of the 1930s and 40s, they made eight box office hits together for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and became the most popular singing team in movie history. Rumor had it that they hated each other off-screen but the truth was that they were madly in love. Interference by studio boss Louis B. Mayer triggered a series of tragic events that caused them to self-destruct their film careers, health and ultimately their lives. The author was a close friend of Jeanette's older sister plus had access to a wealth of unpublished letters and memoirs. This is an updated version of the 1994 edition, including an additional chapter, new information and more photos.
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Customer Reviews:
• Doomed Lovers
09 July, 2008
I just finished reading "Sweethearts." I have always been curious about their off-screen relationship, and now I know! However, both MacDonald and Eddy were totally self-absorbed and very very immature. Eddy was a mama's boy and never grew up. MacDonald was most interested in her career, and not establishing a mature relationship. MacDonald got pregnant by Eddy and had four miscarriages. She married Gene Raymond but never loved him. Eddy married a gold digger several years older than him. Eddy said he was drunk when he married Ann Eddy, but doesn't remember the wedding!
Eddy and MacDonald continued their intimate relationship for over 30 years. Eddy had several "get away homes" where they had their trysts. Evidently, the studio system did their best to keep them apart. If they loved each other so much, why didn't they throw caution to the wind, divorce their spouses and get on with their lives? Grow up already! Poorly written, badly edited, overly long. Why were there so many grammatical mistakes? Who edited this book?
Irregardless, I will always love their movies, they were spectacular together. Thank goodness for TCM where we can watch their love for each other right there on the screen.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Trashing Legendary Film Stars
22 November, 2008
This is just another book that enjoys putting legendary film stars of Hollywood's Golden Age under the microscope. The writer claims to have gotten a lot of the dirt from Jeanette's sister Blossom Rock. The reader has no way of knowing if Blossom was an accurate source of information. Books like this are a small footnote to the careers of Hollywood Legends. Better to just watch their films and enjoy their work.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Not Your Grandmother's Jeanette And Nelson
01 August, 2008
As a collector of old movies(I have 2200), I was loathe to get their movies because of all the parodies and, quite frankly I never figured there was anything much to them. I was flipping channels one night and stopped on Maytime, Jeanette and Nelson's third film together. I was entranced. Not by the plot...never by that. But by the fact that I could see that there was much more to these two than met the eye. This book brings all that out and more. Almost voyeuristic in its descriptions, very often melodramatic(what else? we are talking about actors) and extremely painful, it gives us an insight into how yesterday's studio system could build an actor and kill a person. I took my films and watched them with the chapters to see if I could tell what was going on behind the scenes while I watched. A wordy book when it comes to their individual careers, it more than makes up for it with the sections they spend agonizing over each other. Finally, with all of the sources, it is easily believable which makes it all the more enjoyable.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Trashy Fiction
07 February, 2010
It is a wonderful thing to have someone to love, worship, and adore, but to lose perspective and create fantasies that you pass off as TRUTH to the rest of the world is, at the very least WRONG, and at worst CRUEL and VICIOUS. My family new both Mr. Eddy and Miss MacDonald from the 1930's on until their deaths. They were lovely people and good friends, but a love affair was no where to be seen. After their screen appearances the two stars went their separate ways pursuing their singing careers in many different venues. Miss MacDonald was a very determined, career oriented woman and would never have done anything to jeopardise that and she loved, adored, and respected her husband Gene Raymond as he did her. Mr. Eddy loved singing and was a great guy with a very good sense of humor, he loved and respected his wife, but he wasn't a marrying kind of man.
I met Miss Rich in the 1970's when her first book, a beautiful pictorial of Miss MacDonald, came out. I new Blossom Rock at that time and Miss Rich has misrepresented the closeness of her relationship with Mrs. Rock. Mrs. Rock had suffered a very debilitating stroke and Miss Rich worked very hard ingratiating herself and forcing herself on Blossom to later validate this fantasy that she would create.
Miss Rich has a great knowledge of film history, but not a hidden knowledge on the lives and loves of Miss MacDonald nor Mr. Eddy, she is a writer of fiction at its worst. It has brought her some profit and some satisfaction to see her love fantasy in print and to perpetuate a myth. A myth that has hurt many people and has dragged good peoples names through mud.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Yes Yes Yes
03 March, 2009
A THOUGHT PROVOKING, FASCINATING BOOK! IT HAS DELICIOUS STORIES AND SUPER RARE PHOTOS. BUY IT NOW! I WILL BUY FROM THIS AUTHOR AGAIN.
- Amazon Customer Review
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