Nelson Eddy

Nelson Eddy was born on Jun 29, 1901 in USA. Nelson Eddy's big-screen debut came with Broadway to Hollywood directed by Willard Mack in 1933, strarring John Sylvester (uncredited). Nelson Eddy is known for That's Entertainment! III directed by Bud Friedgen, June Allyson stars as Self - Co-Hostess and Cyd Charisse as Self - Co-Hostess. The most recent award Nelson Eddy achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Nelson Eddy plays is Flawless which will be released on Nov 24, 1999.

The only career Nelson Eddy ever considered was singing. His parents, Isabel (Kendrick) and William Darius Eddy, 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. Dr. Edouard Lippe coached him and loaned him the money to study in Dresden and Paris. He gave his first concert recital in 1928 in Philadelphia. In 1933 he did 18 encores for an audience that included an assistant to MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer, who signed him to a seven-year contract. After MGM acting lessons and initial trials, his first real success came as the Yankee scout to Jeanette MacDonald's French princess in La fugue de Mariette (1935), a huge box-office success made on a small budget. Eddy and MacDonald were paired twice more (Rose-Marie (1936), Le chant du printemps (1937)) when metropolitan Opera star Grace Moore was unavailable; they became an institution. Their last work together was in 1942. Critics nearly always panned his acting. He did have a large radio following (his theme song: "Short'nin Bread"). In 1959 Eddy and MacDonald issued a recording of their movie hits which sold well. In 1953 he had a fairly successful nightclub routine with Gale Sherwood which ran until his death in 1967. He and his wife Anne Denitz had no children.