Nelson was the one who opened the doors for me. My grandmother started to like him and got me to like him after a couple of visits. I was intriqued, and plus I love music.

After Nelson I got interested in Jeanette MacDonald. He also led me to a love of classic movies and films in general. He also gave me a way of spending my free time-- my online tribute to him. My website:)

So I would like to Thank Nelson Eddy for helping me enjoy more then what my friends liked:)

Jessica

 

Nelson Eddy came to my attention through Miss Judy Garland. How, you ask? Well, being in full blown Judy Garland obsession, I started listening to the "Duets" CD that came out right before The Judy Garland Show came out on DVD. I fell in love with the duet medley with Jack Jones which covered songs from Nelson and Jeanette films. I fell in love with the sound of the music and decided to find out who Nelson and Jeanette were.

First I started off with part of Rose Marie which was shown on Turner Classic Movies and was a bit entranced by that. I soon saw all of New Moon and came out wondering why more movies about the American colonies weren't made. Finally, Maytime hooked me. I found myself watching the film for the first time right before I had to go off to school and the following occurred:

Suddenly, Jeanette figures out what Barrymore has in mind... they're walking up the steps. I feel a hand hit my back and a voice telling me to get up. Somehow I am pulled from where I was sitting and I'm starting to be forced out the door. I wanted to stay home and find out what happened. I pleaded with my Mother promise to tell me if Nelson Eddy lives or dies. Mother said she would and off to class I went.

I couldn't take it. I needed to know what happened, so after two hours at school and on my first break I called home to find out what happened on one of the school pay phones. My Mother told me an outcome (I don't want to give away the plot for those of you who haven't seen the film). It was after making my Mother tell me what happened or the yearning to even call home to ask that made me realize that I had a new obsession. I ached for the day to be over so I could watch the movie myself.

Time passed slowly, but I finally got home and I probably abused my Mother when I found out that her version of the ending was nowhere near what happens in the film.

From then on, I was completely obsessed with the baritone particularly and his "Vive La Opera" and "Ham and Eggs." I'm drawn to beautiful weirdness, you see. I've fallen in love with the voice and the charm and see in my image of Nelson a role model. I admire his work and the detail he places in his vocal abilities.

Like Miss Judy Garland, he can make you laugh and cry in the same breath and also like Garland, his talents are very much over looked for the whole realm they truly fill. Particularly, Mr. Eddy. For the popular culture icon he was, he surely isn't in the history books like the Sinatras' and Presleys' that came after him.

Gotta love Mr. Nelson Ackerman Eddy --

Ginny

Nelson Eddy is timeless. What comes through in his movies and in his performances is so much more than he was, yet the magic could not have happened without the excellence and sincerity he brought to his work.

I first saw Nelson Eddy in the movie "Rose Marie" in 1981 when I was about 20 years old. I did not have a clue who he and Jeanette MacDonald were, but I had a general appreciation of ‘old movies’, so accepted an invitation to a local showing of this film. Truthfully, I was expecting a melodramatic and unsophisticated Dudley-Do-Right story, with any comedy being of the slapstick variety. (All I knew was that the movie involved Canadian Mounties and lots of singing).

I was pleasantly surprised to find a clever, genuinely funny script and a thoroughly enjoyable movie. However, it wasn't until the scene on the porch outside of the saloon, when Nelson tries to encourage Jeanette after she had just failed miserably as a bar room soprano, that it hit me. I remember clearly thinking, "Who is this man?" He at once had a commanding presence, a boyish charm and a warm sincerity that was profound-- and he could sing too. What is most amazing is that his shear magnetism came through even with too much pasty make-up in a movie genre that was foreign to me at the time. But from that point on, there was no going back.

It is impossible to fully explain this endearing quality that continues to result in life-long affection and loyalty for such a gifted yet humble man who has touched so many hearts in his own unique and God-given way. Suffice it to say, there is indeed only one Nelson Ackerman Eddy.

Claire Schwartz

 

I decided to watch some old movies that my grandpa has starring Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy. My sister liked those movies and she always begged me to watch them, but I never agreed.After I watched "Rose Marie", I got totally hung up on them, especially Nelson, and I kept going on Nelson's web sites. I worked really hard in school one marking period just to convince my mom to order "Naughty Marietta" for me. Now I still like Nelson and Jeanette, but not as much as I used to.

Esther

 


I saw Naughty Marietta years ago on one of the late movie shows on television. I loved Nelsons voice and I was very impressed by the harmony of Him and Jeanette together. I wanted to see more of their movies, but they didn't come on TV that often. Then later, I received a video catalog and I saw the name of several of their movies. I ended up buying all of them over a period of time. Now that they are finally getting some of their much deserved recognition, I am very happy to become a collector. My collection is very precious to me. I was born in 1932, so when Nelson and Jeanette made their first movie together, I was only 3 years old. But I caught up with them later in my life.

Thomasina Jefferson Carter