The only career Nelson Eddy ever considered was singing. His parents were singers, his grandparents were musicians. Unable to afford a teacher, he learned by imitating opera recordings. At age 14 he worked as a telephone operator in a Philadelphia iron foundry. He sold newspaper advertising and performed in amateur musicals...See full bio »
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Spring Fever
(1978)
(performer: "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life")
1976That's Entertainment, Part II
(documentary)
(performer: "Stouthearted Men" 1928 - uncredited, "Lover, Come Back to Me" 1928 - uncredited)
1974That's Entertainment!
(documentary)
(performer: "Indian Love Call" 1924 - uncredited)
1950Moments in Music
(documentary short)
(performer: "Wanting You")
1946Make Mine Music
(writer: "Pseudo I Pagliacci Passage' 1946 - uncredited / performer: "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met" 1946, "Shortnin' Bread" 1900 - uncredited, "Largo al factotum" 1816 - uncredited, "Chi mi freno in tal momento?" 1835 - uncredited / "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met" 1946, "Pseudo I Pagliacci Passage' 1946 - uncredited, "Tristan und Isolde" 1865 - uncredited, "Mefistofele" 1867 - uncredited, "Mag der Himmel Euch Verbegen" 1847 - uncredited)
1943Phantom of the Opera
(performer: "LULLABY OF THE BELLS" - uncredited, "MARTHA Act III, opera excerpt" - uncredited, "AMOUR ET GLOIRE" - uncredited, "LE PRINCE MASQUE DU CAUCASUS" - uncredited)
1942I Married an Angel
(performer: "Spring Is Here" 1938, "I'll Tell The Man In The Street" 1938, "Hey Butcher" 1942, "May I Present The Girl" 1942, "Now You've Met The Angel" 1942 / "I Married an Angel" 1938, "Les tringles des sistres tintaient Gypsy song" from the opera "Carmen" 1875)
1941The Chocolate Soldier
(performer: "My Hero" 1909, "Thank the Lord the War Is Over" 1909, "Sympathy" 1909, "Song of the Flea" 1879, "While My Lady Sleeps" 1941, "The Chocolate Soldier" 1909, "Forgive" 1909 / "My Hero" 1909, "Evening Star" 1845)
1940New Moon
(performer: "Shoes" 1940 - uncredited, "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" 1928 - uncredited, "Wanting You" 1928 - uncredited, "Lover, Come Back to Me" 1928 - uncredited, "Stouthearted Men" 1928 - uncredited / "Marianne" 1928 - uncredited, "La Marseillaises" 1792 - uncredited)
1940Bitter Sweet
(performer: "I'll See You Again", "If You Could Only Come With Me", "What Is Love", "Tokay", "Dear Little Cafe")
1940The Miracle of Sound
(documentary short)
(performer: "Dear Little Cafe" - uncredited)
1939Let Freedom Ring
(performer: "Dusty Road" 1939 - uncredited, "Oh! Susanna" 1848 - uncredited, "Love Serenade" 1939 - uncredited, "Ten Thousand Cattle Straying" 1904 - uncredited, "Pat, Sez He" - uncredited, "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" 1912 - uncredited, "Where Else But Here" 1939 - uncredited, "America, My Country 'Tis of Thee" 1832 - uncredited / "Home, Sweet, Home" 1823 - uncredited, "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" 1912 - uncredited)
1939Balalaika
(performer: "At the Balalaika", "Ride, Cossack, Ride", "Carmen", "Ochi Tchornya" / "Silent Night Stille Nacht")
1938Sweethearts
(performer: "Sweethearts" 1938 - uncredited, "Every Lover Must Meet His Fate" 1938 - uncredited, "Auld Lang Syne" 1788 - uncredited, "Pretty as a Picture" 1938 - uncredited, "Game of Love" 1938 - uncredited, "Message of the Violet" 1903 - uncredited, "Keep It Dark" 1903 - uncredited, "On Parade" 1938 - uncredited, "Little Gray Home in the West" 1911 - uncredited)
1938The Girl of the Golden West
(performer: "Señorita", "Mariache", "Who Are We To Say" / "Shadows On The Moon", "Soldiers Of Fortune", "Señorita")
1937Rosalie
(performer: "Rosalie" 1937, "The Caisson Song" 1907 - uncredited, "On, Brave Old Army Team" - uncredited, "Anchors Aweigh" 1906 - uncredited, "M'appari tutt'amor" from the opera "Martha" 1847 - uncredited, "In the Still of the Night" 1937, "Goodbye Forever Addio" - uncredited, "It's All Over But the Shouting" 1937, "To Love or Not To Love" 1937, "Gaudeamus Igitur" - uncredited, "Oh Promise Me" 1889 - uncredited / "Rosalie" 1937, "Who Knows?" 1937)
1937Maytime
(performer: "Will You Remember Sweetheart?", "Plantons da Vigne" - uncredited, "Vive l'Opera", "Ham and Eggs", "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" - uncredited, "Santa Lucia" - uncredited, "Czaritza" based on Symphony No. 5)
1936Rose-Marie
(performer: "The Mounties", "Rose Marie", "Just for You", "Indian Love Call")
1935Naughty Marietta
(performer: "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp", "The Owl and the Polecat", "Neath the Southern Moon", "Italian Street Song", "I'm Falling in Love with Someone", "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life")
[Reacting to seeing himself in an elaborate costume and makeup onscreen] "Get him. Ain't he purty?"
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Trivia:
He was an accomplished sculptor, and often crafted bronze statues of his co-stars and directors. The statue he made of Susanna Foster was used in her film
Phantom of the Opera.
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Nickname:
The Singing Capon
given to him somewhat sardonically by critics
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