Biography diva hollywood jeanette macdonald
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Hollywood diva : a biography of Jeanette MacDonald
1 online resource (xix, 467 pages) :
Based in large part on the author's exclusive access to MacDonald's private papers, including her unpublished memoir, this biography transports us to a time when lavish musical films were major cultural events and a worldwide public eagerly awaited each new chance to fall under the singer's spell. Edward Baron Turk shows how MacDonald brilliantly earned her Hollywood nickname of "Iron Butterfly" and why she deserves a privileged position in the history of music and motion pictures. MacDonald's uncommon courage, Turk suggests, makes her a woman for our times. Onscreen the actress portrayed strong characters in pursuit of deep emotional fulfillment, often in defiance of social orthodoxy, while offscreen she personified energy, discipline, and practical intellect. Drawing on interviews with individuals who knew her and on MacDonald's own words, Turk brings to life the intricate relations between
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Edward Baron Turk
Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald
Berkeley: University of California Press. 1998
ISBN 0 520 21202 9
467pp
US $35.00 (cloth)
Uploaded 16 April 1999
Although Edward Baron Turk’s Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald is billed equally as cultural and film history, that isn’t strictly accurate. It is primarily an homage to Jeanette MacDonald, the dancer, singer, Broadway and Hollywood star, who entertained troops during World War 11, hobnobbed with the Eisenhowers and Nixons, but who never fulfilled her life’s ambition of singing musikdrama at the New York Metropolitan.
Jeanette MacDonald is a significant figure for film history, but that isn’t Turk’s focus and much of his book is useless from that point of view. Jeanette MacDonald is also an extremely interesting figure from the point of view of the high/low culture split in US culture. Here, Turk tantalises but students of that sort of cultural studies w
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Jeanette MacDonald
American singer and actress (1903-1965)
For the attorney and author of 'Project Girl', see Janet McDonald.
Not to be confused with Jane McDonald.
Jeanette MacDonald | |
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MacDonald in 1934 | |
| Born | Jeannette Anna McDonald (1903-06-18)June 18, 1903 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 14, 1965(1965-01-14) (aged 61) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California |
| Other names | Jeanette MacDonald |
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| Years active | 1909–1959 |
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| Partner | Nelson Eddy (1935–65, her death) |
| Relatives | Blossom Rock (sister) |
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| Instrument | Vocals (soprano) |
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Musical artist | |
Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American soprano and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade, Love Me Tonigh