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Jeanette MacDonald (1903–1965)


Jeanette MacDonald began her career at age 6, where she had small roles in theaters and operas. By age 13, she was winning singing contests along the eastern United States. Jeanette was a very talented operatic singer/lyrical soprano, with a wide vocal range, E above high C, close to 3 octaves. Her talent soon was spotted by Ernst Lubitsch... See full bio »

Died:

(age 61) in Houston, Texas, USA

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Filmography

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2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (video documentary) (performer: "Sweethearts" - uncredited)
 
2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (video documentary) (performer: "Isn't It Romantic?" - uncredited)
 
2008 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (video documentary) (performer: "My Love Parade" - uncredited, "Love Me Tonight" - uncredited)
 
1994 That's Entertainment! III (documentary) (performer: "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" 1910 - uncredited)
 
1990 Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (performer: "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life")
 
1978 The Waltons (TV series)
Spring Fever (1978) (performer: "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life")
 
1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (documentary) (performer: "Lover, Come Back to Me" 1928 - uncredited, "For Ev'ry Lonely Heart" 1939 - uncredited)
 
1975 Hooray for Hollywood (documentary) (performer: "Love Me Tonight")
 
1974 That's Entertainment! (documentary) (performer: "Indian Love Call" 1924 - uncredited)
 
1965 The Love Goddesses (documentary) (performer: "Lover" - uncredited, "A Woman Needs Something Like That")
 
1957 The Big Record (TV series)
Episode #1.2 (1957) (performer: "Naughty Marietta Medley" - uncredited)
 
1955 MGM Parade (TV series)
Episode #1.16 (1955) (performer: "Czaritza" - uncredited)
 
1950 Moments in Music (documentary short) (performer: "Wanting You")
 
1949 The Sun Comes Up (performer: "Un Bel Di" - uncredited, "Songs My Mother Taught Me" - uncredited, "Tes Jolies Yeux" - uncredited, "If You Were Mine" - uncredited, "Cousin Ebenezer" - uncredited)
 
1948 Three Daring Daughters (performer: "THE DICKEY-BIRD-SONG" - uncredited, "WHERE THERE'S LOVE" - uncredited, "SPRINGTIDE" - uncredited, "YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU" - uncredited, "HUNGARIAN FANTASY" - uncredited, "SWEETHEARTS" - uncredited)
 
1944 Follow the Boys (performer: "Beyond the Blue Horizon" 1930 - uncredited, "I'll See You in My Dreams" 1924 - uncredited)
 
1942 Cairo (performer: "Cairo" 1942, "Les Filles de Cadiz" 1885, "The Waltz is Over" 1942, "A Heart That's Free" 1936, "Il bacio The Kiss", "Chi mi frena The Sextet" 1835, "To a Wild Rose", No.1 from "Woodland Sketches, Op.51" 1896, "From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water" 1909, "Beautiful Ohio" 1918, "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" 1912, "Avalon" 1920, "There's No Place Like Home Home, Sweet Home" 1823, "Keep the Light Burning Bright" 1942)
 
1942 I Married an Angel (performer: "I Married an Angel" 1938, "Spring Is Here" 1938, "Now You've Met The Angel" 1942, "But What Of Truth" 1942, "A Twinkle In Your Eye" 1938, "Les tringles des sistres tintaient Gypsy song" from the opera "Carmen" 1875, "Anges Purs" from the opera "Faust" 1859, "Aloha Oe" 1908 / "I Married an Angel" 1938, "A Twinkle In Your Eye" 1938)
 
1941 Smilin' Through (performer: "Smilin' Through" 1918, "The Kerry Dance" 1875, "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" 1616, "A Little Love, a Little Kiss Un peu d'amour" 1912, "Ouvre ton Coeur", "There's a Long, Long Trail" 1915, "Land of Hope and Glory" 1901 / "Smilin' Through" 1918)
 
1940 New Moon (performer: "Paree Stranger in Paris" / 1940 - uncredited, "The Way They Do It in Paris" 1940 - uncredited, "One Kiss" 1928 - uncredited, "Wanting You" 1928 - uncredited, "Lover, Come Back to Me" 1928 - uncredited, "Ombra Mai Fú" 1738 - uncredited, "Marianne" 1928 - uncredited, "La Marseillaises" 1792 - uncredited)
 
1940 Bitter Sweet (performer: "I'll See You Again" 1929 - uncredited, "If You Could Only Come With Me" 1929 - uncredited, "What Is Love" 1929 - uncredited, "Kiss Me" 1929 - uncredited, "Love In Any Language" 1929 - uncredited, "Dear Little Cafe" 1929 - uncredited, "Ladies Of The Town" 1929 - uncredited, "Zigeuner The Gypsy" 1929 - uncredited / "Dear Little Cafe" 1929 - uncredited)
 
1940 The Miracle of Sound (documentary short) (performer: "Dear Little Cafe" - uncredited)
 
1939 Broadway Serenade (performer: "For Ev'ry Lonely Heart" 1939 - uncredited, "Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay" 1908 - uncredited, "What You Goin' to Do When the Rent Comes 'Round? Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown" 1905 - uncredited, "Hearts Win, You Lose" - uncredited, "Love's Old Sweet Song Just a Song at Twilight" - uncredited, "A-Tisket A-Tasket" 1938 - uncredited, "Here We Go 'Round The Mulberry Bush" - uncredited, "None But the Lonely Heart Nur Wer die Sehnsucht Kennt" 1880 - uncredited, "High Flyin'" - uncredited, "One Look at You" 1939 - uncredited, "No Time To Argue" 1939 - uncredited, "Time Changes Everything" 1939, "Un Bel Di" 1904 - uncredited, "Les Filles de Cadiz" 1885 - uncredited, "Italian Street Song" 1910 - uncredited, "Quando M'En Vo Musetta's Waltz" 1896 - uncredited / "For Ev'ry Lonely Heart" 1939 - uncredited, "High Flyin'" - uncredited, "One Look at You" 1939 - uncredited)
 
1938 Sweethearts (performer: "Sweethearts" 1938 - uncredited, "Wooden Shoes" 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, "Summer Serenade" 1938 - uncredited, "Little Gray Home in the West" 1911 - uncredited, "In the Convent They Never Taught Me That" 1913 - uncredited, "Madamoiselle" 1938 - uncredited / "Every Lover Must Meet His Fate" 1938 - uncredited)
 
1938 The Girl of the Golden West (performer: "The Wind In The Trees" 1938 - uncredited, "Liebestraum Dream of Love" 1850 - uncredited, "Ave Maria" 1853 - uncredited, "Mariache" 1938 - uncredited, "Who Are We To Say" 1938 - uncredited / "Shadows On The Moon" 1938 - uncredited, "Señorita" 1938 - uncredited, "Who Are We To Say" 1938 - uncredited)
 
1937 The Firefly (performer: "LOVE IS LIKE A FIREFLY" 1937 - uncredited, "DANSE JEANETTE" 1937 - uncredited, "SYMPATHY" 1937 - uncredited, "HE WHO LOVES AND RUNS AWAY" 1937 - uncredited, "WHEN A MAID COMES KNOCKING AT YOUR HEART" 1937 - uncredited, "I LOVE YOU DON DIEGO" 1912 - uncredited, "PARA LA SALUD" - uncredited, "THE DONKEY SERENADE" 1937 - uncredited, "GIANNINA MIA: FINALE" 1912 - uncredited / "A WOMAN'S KISS" 1937 - uncredited)
 
1937 Maytime (performer: "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" - uncredited, "Santa Lucia" - uncredited, "Czaritza" based on Symphony No. 5, "Will You Remember Sweetheart?", "Les filles de Cadix", "Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse", "Nobles seigneur, salut", Cavatine du Page "Une dame, noble et sage")
 
1936 San Francisco (performer: "San Francisco" 1936, "Would You" 1936, "Love Me and the World Is Mine" 1906 - uncredited, "A Heart That's Free" 1910 - uncredited, "The Holy City" 1892 - uncredited, "Faust: Air des bijoux The Jewel Song" 1859 - uncredited, "Faust: Il se fait tard" 1859 - uncredited, "Faust: Anges purs" 1859 - uncredited, "La Traviata: Sempre Libera" 1853 - uncredited, "Nearer My God to Thee" 1856 - uncredited, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" circa 1856 - uncredited)
 
1936 Rose-Marie (performer: "Roméo et Juliette" 1867 - uncredited, "Pardon Me Madame" 1936 - uncredited, "Dinah" 1925 - uncredited, "Some of These Days" 1910 - uncredited, "Indian Love Call" 1924 - uncredited, "Three Blind Mice" - uncredited, "Tosca" 1900 - uncredited)
 
1935 Naughty Marietta (performer: "Chansonette" 1910 - uncredited, "Italian Street Song" 1910 - uncredited, "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" 1910 - uncredited, "Prayer" 1910 - uncredited)
 
1934 The Merry Widow (performer: "Vilia" 1905 - uncredited, "Tonight Will Teach Me to Forget" 1905 - uncredited, "The Merry Widow Waltz" 1905 - uncredited, "If Widows Are Rich" 1905 - uncredited, "Melody of Laughter" 1905 - uncredited)
 
1934 The Cat and the Fiddle (performer: "Impressions in a Harlem Flat" 1931 - uncredited, "She Didn't Say Yes" 1931 - uncredited, "The Night Was Made for Love" 1931 - uncredited, "I Watched the Love Parade" 1931 - uncredited, "Poor Pierrot" 1931 - uncredited, "Try to Forget" 1931 - uncredited / "A New Love is Old" 1931 - uncredited, "The Night Was Made for Love" 1931 - uncredited, "One Moment Alone" 1931 - uncredited)
 
1933 Hollywood on Parade No. A-7 (short) (performer: "Love Me Tonight")
 
1932 Love Me Tonight (performer: "Isn't It Romantic" 1932 - uncredited, "Lover" 1932 - uncredited, "A Woman Needs Something Like That" 1932 - uncredited, "Love Me Tonight" 1932 - uncredited)
 
1932 One Hour with You (performer: "One Hour With You", "We Will Always Be Sweetheharts", "What a Little Thing Like a Wedding Can Do", "It Was Only a Dream Kiss")
 
1930 The Lottery Bride (performer: "YUBLA" 1930 - uncredited, "MY NORTHERN LIGHT" 1930 - uncredited)
 
1930 Monte Carlo (performer: "Beyond The Blue Horizon", "Give Me A Moment Please", "Always in All Ways", "She'll Love Me and Like It", "Whatever It Is, It's Grand")
 
1930 The Vagabond King (performer: "Some Day", "Only a Rose", "Finale: Only a Rose")
 
1929 The Love Parade (performer: "Dream Lover" 1929 - uncredited, "Anything to Please the Queen" 1929 - uncredited, "My Love Parade" 1929 - uncredited, "March of the Grenadiers" 1929 - uncredited)
 
Show ShowActress (32 titles)
1957 Playhouse 90 (TV series)
Donna Lucia d'Alvadores
 
1956 Screen Directors Playhouse (TV series)
Martha Blessing
Prima Donna (1956) … Martha Blessing
 
1949 The Sun Comes Up
Helen Lorfield Winter
 
1948 Three Daring Daughters
Louise Rayton Morgan
 
1944 Follow the Boys
Jeanette MacDonald
 
1942 Cairo
Marcia Warren
 
1942 I Married an Angel
Anna/Brigitta
 
1941 Smilin' Through
Kathleen / Moonyean Clare
 
1940 Bitter Sweet
Sarah Millick
 
1940 New Moon
Marianne de Beaumanoir
 
1939 Broadway Serenade
Mary Hale
 
1938 The Girl of the Golden West
Mary Robbins
 
1937 The Firefly
Nina Maria
 
1937 Maytime
Marcia Mornay
 
1936 Rose-Marie
Marie de Flor
 
1935 La veuve joyeuse
Missia
 
1934 The Merry Widow
Sonia
 
1934 The Cat and the Fiddle
Shirley
 
1932 Love Me Tonight
Princess Jeanette (as Jeanette Mac Donald)
 
1932 Une heure près de toi
Colette Bertier
 
1932 One Hour with You
Colette Bertier
 
1931 Annabelle's Affairs
Annabelle Leigh
 
1931 All Women are Bad
Jeanne Drake
 
1930 Oh, for a Man!
Carlotta Manson
 
1930 The Lottery Bride
Jenny
 
1930 Monte Carlo
Countess Helene Mara
 
1930 Let's Go Native
Joan Wood
 
1929 The Love Parade
Queen Louise
 
Show ShowSelf (18 titles)
1959 The Jack Paar Tonight Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #3.51 (1959) … Herself
 
1958 Person to Person (TV series documentary)
Herself
Episode #6.6 (1958) … Herself
 
1957 The Big Record (TV series)
Herself - Soprano Singer
Episode #1.2 (1957) … Herself - Soprano Singer
 
1956 Lux Video Theatre (TV series)
Herself
Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue (1956) … Herself
 
1953 This Is Your Life (TV series)
Jeanette MacDonald
This Is Your Life, Jeanette MacDonald (1953) … Jeanette MacDonald
 
1953 The Jackie Gleason Show (TV series)
Herself - Guest Vocalist
Lost Job (1953) … Herself - Guest Vocalist
 
1953 The Name's the Same (TV series)
Contestant
Episode dated 6 January 1953 (1953) … Contestant
 
1952 What's My Line? (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 21 December 1952 (1952) … Herself
 
1952 The Buick-Berle Show (TV series)
Herself - Actress / Singer
Episode #4.37 (1952) … Herself - Actress / Singer
 
1951 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #5.17 (1951) … Herself
Episode #4.47 (1951) … Herself
 
1950 The Voice of Firestone (TV series)
Herself
Episode #2.11 (1950) … Herself
 
1949 Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1940 The Miracle of Sound (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1938 Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 1 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1938 Hollywood Goes to Town (documentary short)
Herself
 
1936 Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 11 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1934 Hollywood on Parade No. B-8 (short)
Herself
 
1933 Hollywood on Parade No. A-7 (short)
Herself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (19 titles)
2004 Broadway: The American Musical (TV series documentary)
 
1999-2003 Great Performances (TV series)
 
1994 That's Entertainment! III (documentary)
Performer in Clips from 'Naughty Marietta'/'Maytime' (uncredited)
 
1992 Nelson and Jeanette (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1986 The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
1976 America at the Movies (documentary)
Mary Blake
 
1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (documentary)
Clips from 'New Moon' & 'Broadway Serenade'
 
1975 Brother Can You Spare a Dime (documentary)
Herself
 
1975 Hooray for Hollywood (documentary)
Herself
 
1974 That's Entertainment! (documentary)
Clip from 'Rose Marie'
 
1974 Just One More Time (short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1965 The Love Goddesses (documentary)
Herself
 
1963-1964 Hollywood and the Stars (TV series)
 
1955-1956 MGM Parade (TV series)
 
1950 Moments in Music (documentary short)
Herself, film clip (uncredited)
 
1940 Hollywood: Style Center of the World (documentary short)
Herself
 
1939 Land of Liberty
Mary Blake (edited from: San Francisco)
 
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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1958) Album: "Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy's Favorites". See more »

Publicity Listings:

2 Biographical Movies  | 8 Print Biographies  | See more »


Alternate Names:

Jeanette Mac Donald

Height:

5' 4" (1.63 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

[1943] I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever! See more »

Trivia:

Favorite film was Maytime. See more »

Nickname:

Mac See more »

Star Sign:

Gemini