Well, take a close look at the video and see whether you don’t notice the same thing when he tells that story. I have heard several people say that Nelson gave himself away when he would discuss Jeanette – in person they noticed the very same thing, the change in his voice and breathing and beaming joy and flushed face…this was a man whose emotions were fairly transparent. “She’s a smart – she was always a smart girl,” he says…and those who have read the book Sweethearts know that he liked to call her “my girl.” “I mean, who wouldn’t want to look at the rushes?” he defends her.
He totally relates to her and her viewpoint, he justifies why what she did was adorable and correct, and he sounds like a happy little kid telling it…his breathing changes, his face flushes slightly, there is momentary joy and pride in his voice behind the evident shell-shocked grief. For me, the most striking was the change in his expression and entire countenance when he tells the story of how Jeanette was in “the dog house” after angering director Woody Van Dyke for showing up late on set. There are many things to notice in this video. This interview is less than 24 hours after the first one where he can barely speak. Below is the video clip from January 15, the day after Jeanette’s death, not seen since it first aired. In the telling and re-telling of many of the same stories during that long hellish night, Nelson got a little more careful about what he revealed. She was nowhere in sight to comfort her spouse who was grieving the loss of his great love. I find it telling that this poor man found more comfort in Anaheim with members of the press to talk to all night than say, for example, rushing back to Brentwood and finding solace with “the woman I’m married to” – ie, Ann Eddy. Note that he had not slept all night and was talking to reporters until 5 am.
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Here is the audio tape of that very first interview…Nelson gasping as he spoke in spurts…the interviewer kept pushing him beyond what he could tell and deal with for (as he so bitterly termed) “public consumption.” The “interview” ended prematurely due to his breaking down and crying.įor many years, this was the only available interview footage but just last week, our fellow sleuths Katie and Angela were able to obtain a TV interview done with Nelson Eddy the next day. Nelson had checked into his hotel in Anaheim, preparing for his opening the following evening of his nightclub act. Nelson’s initial shock and disbelief was very clear (see photo above) as the first TV reporter interviewed him. (And that is a horror story on its own…but not the topic of this article.) Nothing could be further from the truth…as he was to soon learn. But none was more stunned than Nelson Eddy, who had spoken to her just days earlier and assumed her silence the last few days was just because she was recuperating and getting her strength back. The death of Jeanette MacDonald on Januat age 61 shocked and stunned fans worldwide who had not realized how very ill she was during her last years.
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