She was the third daughter of Daniel and Anne MacDonald, younger sister to Blossom (MGM's character actress Marie Blake), whom she followed to New York and a chorus job in 1920. She was busy in a string of musical productions. In 1928 Paramount tested and rejected her, but a year later Ernst Lubitsch saw her test and picked her to play opposite Maurice Chevalier in
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1950Moments in Music
(documentary short)
(performer: "Wanting You")
1949The 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)
1948Three 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)
1944Follow the Boys
(performer: "Beyond the Blue Horizon" 1930 - uncredited, "I'll See You in My Dreams" 1924 - uncredited)
1942Cairo
(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)
1942I 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)
1941Smilin' 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)
1940New 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)
1940Bitter 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)
1940The Miracle of Sound
(documentary short)
(performer: "Dear Little Cafe" - uncredited)
1939Broadway 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)
1938Sweethearts
(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)
1938The 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)
1937The 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)
1937Maytime
(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")
1936San 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)
1936Rose-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)
1934The 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)
1934The 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)
1932Love 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)
1932One 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")
1930Monte 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")
1930The Vagabond King
(performer: "Some Day", "Only a Rose", "Finale: Only a Rose")
1929The 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)
[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!
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Trivia:
In May 1943 she made her Grand Opera Debut at His Majesty's Theater in Montreal, Canada singing the role of Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet.".
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