Post by topbilled on Jan 9, 2024 13:51:56 GMT
Jeanette MacDonald began her Hollywood career during the talkies in a series of hit musicals at Paramount. Often, these ventures paired her with Maurice Chevalier. By 1934 she had left Paramount and moved over to MGM where she would remain in demand until the late 1940s. Assignments at the Lion usually teamed her with singer Nelson Eddy, though she also made films with Allan Jones and one with her husband Gene Raymond. Occasionally, she had a more dramatic role, such as her work with Robert Young in 1942’s CAIRO, though she still sang on screen. In 1943, Nelson Eddy left MGM and went over to Universal, which gave Jeanette MacDonald a chance to take a break during the war years. Eventually, the studio lured her back, and she returned in a wholesome musical comedy, THREE DARING DAUGHTERS, which had her playing mother to Jane Powell. The following year, she made her last motion picture, with an unlikely costar-- Lassie!-- in THE SUN COMES UP.
Check out:
THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE (1934)
I MARRIED AN ANGEL (1942)
THREE DARING DAUGHTERS (1948)