Jeanette MacDonald
Born: 1903-06-18 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1965-01-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American soprano and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade, Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow and One Hour with You) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime). During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture Oscars (The Love Parade, One Hour with You, Naughty Marietta and San Francisco), and recorded extensively, earning three gold records. She later appeared in opera, concerts, radio, and television. MacDonald was one of the most influential sopranos of the 20th century, introducing opera to film-going audiences and inspiring a generation of singers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeanette MacDonald, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
2009
- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression as Self (archive footage)
1995
- The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self (archive footage)
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1992
- Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts as Self (archive footage)
1990
- Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To as (archive footage)
1987
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
1986
- The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn as Self (archive footage)
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1974
- That's Entertainment! as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1957
- Where's Charley? as Donna Lucia d'Alvadores
1956
- Prima Donna as Martha Blessing
1955
- MGM Parade as Self
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Martha
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Self
1949
- The Sun Comes Up as Helen Lorfield Winter
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Three Daring Daughters as Louise Rayton Morgan
1944
- Follow the Boys as Jeanette MacDonald
1942
- I Married an Angel as Anna / Brigitta
- Cairo as Marcia Warren
1941
- Smilin' Through as Kathleen / Moonyean Clare
1940
- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
- Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
- New Moon as Marianne de Beaumanoir
- Bitter Sweet as Sarah Millick
1939
- Broadway Serenade as Mary Hale
1938
- Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
- The Girl of the Golden West as Mary Robbins
- Sweethearts as Gwen Marlowe
1937
- Maytime as Marcia Mornay
- The Romance of Celluloid as Self (archive footage)
- The Firefly as Nina Maria
1936
- Rose Marie as Marie de Flor
- San Francisco as Mary Blake
1935
- Naughty Marietta as Marietta
1934
- The Merry Widow as Madame Sonia / Fifi
- The Cat and the Fiddle as Shirley Sheridan
1932
- Love Me Tonight as Princess Jeanette
- One Hour with You as Colette Bertier
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-5 as Self
1931
- Don't Bet on Women as Jeanne Drake
- Annabelle's Affairs as Annabelle Leigh
1930
- Oh, for a Man! as Carlotta Manson
- The Vagabond King as Katherine
- Let's Go Native as Joan Wood
- The Lottery Bride as Jenny
- Monte Carlo as Countess Helene Mara
1929
- The Love Parade as Queen Louise