Jeanette MacDonald
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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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.19 |
Birthday | 1903-06-18 |
Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Also Known As | Jeannette Anna McDonald, Jeanette Anna MacDonald, Jeanette Mac Donald, |
1932
Love Me Tonight
6.6/76
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
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Love Me Tonight
1944
Follow the Boys
5.333/9
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical...
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Follow the Boys
1932
One Hour with You
6.486/72
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist h...
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One Hour with You
1942
Cairo
5.8/4
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.
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Cairo
1940
New Moon
6.8/6
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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New Moon
1938
Sweethearts
5.5/10
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.
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Sweethearts
1938
The Girl of the Golden West
4.6/4
A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
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The Girl of the Golden West
1937
Maytime
6.2/10
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.
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Maytime
1937
The Firefly
6.4/5
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order fo...
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The Firefly
1934
The Merry Widow
6.7/53
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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The Merry Widow
1936
Rose Marie
6.2/13
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.
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Rose Marie
1936
San Francisco
6.6/72
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 19...
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San Francisco
1935
Naughty Marietta
5.1/19
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unli...
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Naughty Marietta
1930
The Love Parade
6.7/33
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
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The Love Parade
1934
The Cat and the Fiddle
6.9/7
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
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The Cat and the Fiddle
1940
Bitter Sweet
5.8/5
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
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Bitter Sweet
1930
Monte Carlo
6.3/17
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
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Monte Carlo
1948
Three Daring Daughters
5.7/6
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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Three Daring Daughters
1949
The Sun Comes Up
6.4/4
Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy...
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The Sun Comes Up
1939
Broadway Serenade
6.2/4
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...
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Broadway Serenade
1941
Smilin' Through
6/8
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kath...
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Smilin' Through
1930
Let's Go Native
7.5/2
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
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Let's Go Native
1930
The Lottery Bride
4.7/6
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
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The Lottery Bride
1930
The Vagabond King
5.4/7
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is o...
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The Vagabond King
1931
Don't Bet on Women
4.2/5
At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert...
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Don't Bet on Women
1932
Hollywood on Parade No. A-5
0/0
Stars Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier and Ken Maynard.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-5
1931
Annabelle's Affairs
0/0
After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other truly looks like. Annabelle is given stocks by her hus...
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Annabelle's Affairs
1974
That's Entertainment!
7.3/61
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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That's Entertainment!
1942
I Married an Angel
5/3
A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.
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I Married an Angel
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
6.8/36
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
1994
That's Entertainment! III
6.9/35
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to G...
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That's Entertainment! III
1937
The Romance of Celluloid
7/2
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are...
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The Romance of Celluloid
1930
Oh, for a Man!
5.667/3
Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her career to marry him. But Barney grows disenchante...
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Oh, for a Man!
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7/7
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
5.5/2
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
6.7/6
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a tal...
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1986
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
8/5
In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and profession...
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The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1990
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
9/3
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed comm...
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1938
Hollywood Goes to Town
7/3
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which h...
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Hollywood Goes to Town
1988
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
6/1
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1992
Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
0/0
A look at the screen triumphs and private lives of the screen's number-one singing team.
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Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
2009
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
0/0
A two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s.
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
1956
Prima Donna
0/0
A famous singer discovers a newsboy with vocal talent, but he would rather play baseball than develop his singing skills. She'd like to persuade his p...
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