Nelson Eddy-Jeanette McDonald movies

Painful to watch

Not painful to me, but never very interesting either.

I remember really liking both of them, but gosh, it's been a LONG time since I saw any of their movies.

"these ones" how de classe

I like a lot of the early musicals she did with Ernst Lubitsch and/or Maurice Chevalier in the 30s, though I'm not really crazy about her voice. Have never seen any of the Eddy films.

They belong to another world when Operetta had a sizable American audience.

Was that the one where she sang?

Where she saaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhnnnnngggggg?

Btw, on another thread someone claimed the guy next to Nelson Eddy in that clip was his boyfriend!

In the early days of the internet, I remeber finding a group of Nelson Eddy-Jeanette McDonald shippers who wholeheartedly believed they carried on a secret affair for decades

r9, those silly fraus are still around

Judy will never forget Jeanette MacDonald . . .

I've always found them cluncky.

Every time I hear or read their names, I hear Edith Bunker say them as she did when she launched into some story about one of their movies.

Rose-Marie is pretty campy

Gag-inducing.

Agree with the poster that McDonald's films with Chevalier are much better as they are pre-Code and thus a bit naughty.

Her films with Eddy are MGM at its most wholesome/saccharine.

Unwatchable. Too completely from another time.

[quote]In the early days of the internet, I remember finding a group of Nelson Eddy-Jeanette McDonald shippers who wholeheartedly believed they carried on a secret affair for decades

Why, her husband was considered one of the most beautiful men in Hollywood, and apparently was more than a pretty face, if you receive my meaning.

I'm a Classic Movie buff. I enjoy songs from the Great American Songbook/Tin Pan Alley era but have no use for classical operettas or Opera singing. Eddy/McDonald films either (at worst) bored me or (at best) were only worth watching once.

The real story here (like R17 has already pointed out) is Jeanette McDonald's "marriage" to the (in his youth) hunky Gene Raymond. I always wondered why Mr. Raymond retired so early in his career, when he was still a popular leading man. It wasn't until recently that I found out that Raymond was "family" and was arrested several times for cock-loving ways.

(R18) Not true at all. Raymond continued working steadily until around 1975 - on-stage and on television. His last film appearances were in 1964 when he was 56.

My father served in the Air Force with him during WW II and my mom worked with her at the Hollywood Canteen. When I was baptized in April of 1955, MacDonald and Raymond were my godparents.

I am decidedly and happily gay but Gene Raymond never pinged to me and I never heard anything, legit, that alluded to him being "Family". Just a lot of babble perpetrated by a lot of aged, overweight fraus with nothing better to do.

Maytime is one of my favorite movies. It's on the slightly long lumbering side but it's one of those sumptuous money is no object MGM productions and John Barrymore gives a great performance. It's accumulative emotional effect at the end is very moving.

Many years ago NYC Opera had a lavish production of Romberg and Hammerstein's The New Moon. It was filled with beautiful music from beginning to end. Some standards include Lover Come Back to Me, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise and Stout Hearted Men. Wonderful. It was filmed for TV and is on youtube though to be honest I've never seen it having seen it a number of times in the house.

Back in my 20s, in the latter part of the last century, I went through a Nelson Eddy-Jeannette MacDonald phase, watching all of their movies. I quite enjoyed Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie, and parts of Maytime and New Moon. Ironically, they gave their best performances elsewhere: as others have stated, MacDonald's earlier films with Ernst Lubitsch are much more creative and interesting and she's fantastic in them, while he gave his best performance in The Chocolate Soldier (1941) opposite Risë Stevens.

Nelson Eddy made her boring.

She’s funny and sexy in her early work.

I had to watch these with my mother as I became her caregiver when she slid into dementia. Eddy is much more natural an actor than McDonald. The plots are cookie-cutter, but they are amusing enough. Not something i would seek out, but being forced to watch not too bad.