Jeanette MacDonald
Born: 1903-06-18 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1965-01-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jeanette MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow) 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 grand opera, concerts, radio, and television. MacDonald was one of the most influential sopranos of the 20th century, introducing grand opera to movie-going audiences and inspiring a generation of singers.
Filmography
2009
- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression as Self (archive footage)
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
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)
1957
- Where's Charley? as Donna Lucia d'Alvadores
1956
- Prima Donna as Martha Blessing
1955
- 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
- Cairo as Marcia Warren
- I Married an Angel as Anna / Brigitta
1941
- Smilin' Through as Kathleen / Moonyean Clare
1940
- New Moon as Marianne de Beaumanoir
- Bitter Sweet as Sarah Millick
- Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
1939
- Broadway Serenade as Mary Hale
1938
- The Girl of the Golden West as Mary Robbins
- Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
- Sweethearts as Gwen Marlowe
1937
- Maytime as Marcia Mornay
- The Firefly as Nina Maria
- The Romance of Celluloid as Self (archive footage)
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
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-5 as Self
- One Hour with You as Colette Bertier
1931
- Don't Bet on Women as Jeanne Drake
- Annabelle's Affairs as Annabelle Leigh
1930
- Monte Carlo as Countess Helene Mara
- The Love Parade as Queen Louise
- Let's Go Native as Joan Wood
- The Vagabond King as Katherine
- Oh, for a Man! as Carlotta Manson
- The Lottery Bride as Jenny