TV Guide: Nelson Eddy

Video: March 2006 This Month promo for TCM

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:12:57 -0500

Watch highlights from our March programming featuring the films of Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy, The Essentials and more - all set to Cake's version of "I Will Survive."

Video: The Girl Of The Golden West - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:00:57 -0500

Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy star in the movie version of the Sigmund Romberg-Gus Kahn musical The Girl Of The Golden West (1938).

Video: New Moon - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:59:19 -0500

Nelson Eddy is looking for some stout-hearted men in the operetta New Moon (1940) co-starring Jeanette MacDonald.

Video: Maytime -- (Movie Intro/Outro) Renee Fleming

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:59:05 -0500

Opera star Renee Fleming is TCM's Guest Programmer joining Robert Osborne for this introduction and comments following Maytime, 1937, starring Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald.

Video: Maytime - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:59:05 -0500

It's Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald with only John Barrymore to keep them apart in the MGM musical Maytime (1937)

Video: Let Freedom Ring - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:58:55 -0500

A crusader returns to his Western hometown to root out corruption in Let Freedom Ring (1939) starring Nelson Eddy.

Video: I Married An Angel - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:58:37 -0500

Some husbands say it but Nelson Eddy means it literally in his final pairing with Jeanette MacDonald, I Married An Angel (1942).

Video: Chocolate Soldier, The - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:57:36 -0500

A jealous husband tests his opera singer wife's fidelity by pretending to be another man in The Chocolate Soldier (1941) starring Nelson Eddy and Rise Stevens.

Video: Bitter Sweet - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:57:21 -0500

Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald sing a forbidden love in Noel Coward's operetta Bitter Sweet (1940).

Video: Balalaika - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:57:10 -0500

Refugees from the Russian Revolution build a new life in Paris in Balalaika (1939) starring Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey.

Video: Phantom Of The Opera, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:23:04 -0500

This Technicolor retelling of the Gaston Leroux grand guignol classic The Phantom of the Opera has a little more opera than phantom, but that's because the stars are soprano Susannah Foster and tenor Nelson Eddy. Claude Rains carries the acting honors on his shoulders, playing a pathetic orchestra violinist who worships aspiring opera-singer Foster from afar. The girl is unaware that Rains has secretly been financing her music lessons with instructor Leo Carrillo. When he runs out of money, Rains attempts to sell the concerto that he's been working on all his life. Mistakenly believing that his precious concerto has been stolen from him, Rains attacks and kills the music publisher he holds responsible. Terrified, the publisher's mistress throws a pan full of acid into Rains' face. Rains runs screaming into the night, and is not heard from for the next reel or so. Soon afterward, the Paris Opera house is plagued by a series of mysterious accidents. The managers are informed via letter that the accidents will c

Video: I Married An Angel

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:26:57 -0500

The final pairing of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, an adaptation of a Rodgers & Hart musical, stars Eddy as a playboy who fantasizes that he is romancing an angel (MacDonald). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide.

Video: New Moon

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:23:00 -0500

Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given another airing in 1940 as Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald vehicle. Set in 18th century Louisiana, the story concerns the relationship between haughty plantation owner Marianne de Beaumanoir (MacDonald) and her handsome bondservant Charles (Eddy). Actually a French nobleman in disguise, Charles leads his fellow bondsman in revolt, commandeering a ship and heading out to sea. He ends up capturing a vessel carrying Marianne and a cargo of mail-order brides. Though the bondsmen and the brides get along just fine, the romance between Marianne and Charles is noticeably strained, but the French Revolution comes along to solve everyone's problems. The soaring Romberg musical score includes such favorites as One Kiss, Stout-Hearted Men and Lover Come Back to Me, all performed con brio by the stars. Comedian Buster Keaton, whose supporting role was cut from the final release print of New Moon, can stil

Video: Naughty Marietta

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:22:56 -0500

The first of MGM's phenomenally profitable Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy musicals, Naughty Marietta takes several beneficial liberties with the libretto of the original Victor Herbert operetta. MacDonald plays an 18th-century French princess who escapes an arranged marriage by posing as a cake girl, a mail-order bride sent to the New World to marry a colonist. En route, MacDonald and the other brides are captured by pirates, but are rescued by mercenary Eddy and his roistering companions. To avoid marrying some lowly farmer or frontiersman, simon-pure MacDonald intimates that she is a woman with a history, which makes her attractive to the glitterati of old New Orleans. Only Eddy sees through MacDonald's feigned naughtiness, and in the end claims her for his own. The most memorable of the Herbert songs retained for the film version of Naughty Marietta was Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, which remained one of Jeanette MacDonald's signature tunes ever afterward. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.