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 »
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, "Pseudo I Pagliacci Passage' 1946 - uncredited, "Tristan und Isolde" 1865 - uncredited, "Mefistofele" 1867 - uncredited, "Mag der Himmel Euch Verbegen" 1847 - uncredited / "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met" 1946)
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, "Les tringles des sistres tintaient Gypsy song" from the opera "Carmen" 1875 / "I Married an Angel" 1938)
1941The Chocolate Soldier
(performer: "My Hero" 1909, "Thank the Lord the War Is Over" 1909, "Evening Star" 1845, "Sympathy" 1909, "Song of the Flea" 1879, "While My Lady Sleeps" 1941, "The Chocolate Soldier" 1909, "Forgive" 1909 / "My Hero" 1909)
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" 1929 - uncredited, "If You Could Only Come With Me" 1929 - uncredited, "What Is Love" 1929 - uncredited, "Tokay" 1929 - uncredited, "Dear Little Cafe" 1929 - uncredited)
1940The Miracle of Sound
(documentary short)
(performer: "Dear Little Cafe" - uncredited)
1939Let Freedom Ring
(performer: "Dusty Road" 1939, "Love Serenade" 1939, "Oh! Susanna" 1848 - uncredited, "Home, Sweet, Home" 1823 - 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 / "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" 1912 - uncredited)
1939Balalaika
(performer: "At the Balalaika", "Ride, Cossack, Ride", "Carmen", "Silent Night Stille Nacht", "Ochi Tchornya")
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" 1938 - uncredited, "Mariache" 1938 - uncredited, "Who Are We To Say" 1938 - uncredited / "Shadows On The Moon" 1938 - uncredited, "Soldiers Of Fortune" 1938 - uncredited, "Señorita" 1938 - uncredited)
1937Rosalie
(performer: "Rosalie" 1937 - uncredited, "The Caisson Song" 1907 - uncredited, "On, Brave Old Army Team" 1910 - uncredited, "Anchors Aweigh" 1906 - uncredited, "Who Knows?" 1937 - uncredited, "M'appari tutt'amor" from the opera "Martha" 1847 - uncredited, "In the Still of the Night" 1937 - uncredited, "Goodbye Forever Addio" - uncredited, "It's All Over But the Shouting" 1937 - uncredited, "To Love or Not To Love" 1937 - uncredited, "Gaudeamus Igitur" - uncredited, "Oh Promise Me" 1889 - uncredited / "Rosalie" 1937 - uncredited)
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" 1924 - uncredited, "Rose Marie" 1924 - uncredited, "Just for You" 1936 - uncredited, "Indian Love Call" 1924 - uncredited)
1935Naughty Marietta
(performer: "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" 1910 - uncredited, "The Owl and the Polecat" 1910 - uncredited, "Neath the Southern Moon" 1910 - uncredited, "Italian Street Song" 1910 - uncredited, "I'm Falling in Love with Someone" 1910 - uncredited, "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" 1910 - uncredited)
1946Make Mine Music
Narrator/Willie/Whitey/Tetti-Tatti/Sailors/Newsman/Men/Workman/Cabbie/Cop/Scientists/Woman/Cat/Opera Singers/Chorus (segment "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met")
(voice)
[About some of the films Eddy and MacDonald were offered in their later career] We've been asked to do what might be called B pictures. Rather than do that, we decided to leave it on a high note.
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Trivia:
He was a lifelong supporter of the Republican party.
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