Nelson Eddy Interview - January 15, 1965 (Exclusive) 

You should be very proud of yourself, for you are very rare and I admire a young person like you...... I was the same way at your age.

Thank you very much indeed. It's nice to hear their music and also to find fine people such as yourself, that love it too. Thank you very much for that!

You are articulate, and way beyond your years in understanding the value of real music, when all around are listening to, gee what’s a good word to describe that genre. I love rock and roll, R and B, ETC,. BUT THIS MUSIC IS JUST THE TOPS. bless you.

@@avery-dd7ol Thank you very much! It's good to have a range of music tastes. I will carry on loving both of them as long as I may live. Thank you very much again

🎉I think that the sadest words in life is “IF ONLY“😢😢😢❤ 10:33

Well said Carol Ann -)

I know. It was an amazing love story.

They were pure magic maytime is wonderful

@@patrickoneill2549, and how !

​@patrickoneill2549 My all time favourite movie! I have my great grandmother's original copy of Maytime when it was first released on VHS.

Exactly

They owned several houses together used only for them until she died. They had an apartment together, which Nelson Eddys widow moved in to. Some say the studio forced her to marry Raymond and be his beard. My details may be off, but I believe their unending love for eachother is pretty well established now. Would make a interesting, but very.sad limited series. It's never easy or pleasant to leave a spouse, but why these two couldn't couldn't be together is hard to grasp. At least after their movie partnership was over, and she was out from under the studio heads they could have gone public. Each of their spouses already knew or suspected. So there is much more to the story than a simple case of loving someone married to someone else or a secret affair. Then there is the story of as many as 8 pregnancies by Nelson. All miscarriages. I'm sure many of those commenting here know much more than I do. Has anyone done a screenplay ? Or even a book that tells the whole story.

Christopher Scott Dixon Thank you!

@@AngelaM55 Most welcome :-)

Maybe CHF, he had high blood pressure and probable mini stroke prior to the stroke that killed him. Also suffered from pneumonia in 1963.

I am sure he was a smoker just because back then so many smoked.

@@Queserasera_LaLaLaProbably right. It’s so sad. I’m a huge fan of both performers. So talented! Wish I’d have been able to see them perform live.

I agree. Iconic

Thanks again ever so much Angela Messino tor the beautiful serenades of Nelson and Jeanette . Their musichave brought me so much happiness. Sincerely, Robert S.J. Hu May 19, 2020.

In Hawaii, we say Mahalo (Thank You) for your kind reply Angela Messino. Robert S.J. Hu May 20, 2020.

Nelson Eddy will always be Anatole Garrion from the 1943 version of The Phantom of The Opera! I love him!

Thank you Angela for the heart I also feel Jeanette and Nelson should have married and that her mother and Louis Mayer should have left them alone their lives would have been much happier and I just became a fan just about 2 months ago

Katie Gardner Hi Kate those last few words were very emotionable never to see such REAL stars. D H

He bites his lower lip at 9:46. One of the most devastating moments I've ever seen....kicked in the gut.

Da gusto oir su pronunciacion.

@@carlosjorgemartinez2742 Si. Elegante.

Arkady Kholodenko Your very welcome!

Amen!

Rocky Missouri Your welcome Rocky, thanks for leaving a comment!

I’m so sorry for your loss but what a blessing to have lived such a long life and to leave this world with a song. God bless!

Mis padres y tíos eran fan de este duo, y siempre hablaban de ellos me produce gran placer y nostalgia verlos ahora y saber que se amaban, gran romanticismo que hoy en día no existe. Gracias por este momento

Yes, rubbish, we need to pray harder to get our country back, USA. God bless America. Our young people need to hear love songs, gentleness and mercy, instead of "Baby hit me one more time". But "what can you expect, the jerk has no Daddy?"

Garry Wood Yes he did. Just two years later. He never recovered from her death.

+Katie Gardner Yup. He held it together valiantly, but no doubt he was stressed and in shock as indicated by the rapid, shallow breathing.

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They were madly in love with each other. I'm sure it was extremely hard for him to speak of her after her death..as showed in another interview he had.

I have a different place, stay young and get out alive.

I think he looks and sounds great- He aged gracefully. This is what a handsome older gentleman looks like...after the love of his life is gone forever. Grief..not gaunt. THAT is what makes us old. Not years. When your loved ones start to go , one by one, they take part of you with them. Your energy, vitality, joy - it ages you. Ive seen people age 10 years before my eyes when I had to deliver terrible news. It happens to everyone but that doesnt help and there is no way to prepare or make it easier. Theirs was a secret love everyone knew about. They married other people who must have known and were hurt by it. It takes a toll. For Mac and Eddy it must have been torture, and stressful. Like an addiction. They could not quit eachother.

By all accounts, he also had a very earthy side to that boyish charm ;) We found some very "interesting" sketches he made on one of his sheets of music that's housed at Occidental in LA. He could be a very naughty boy indeed :O

@@AngelaM55 I take back the "naïve" part. I'm the one that's naive.

@@errolfan Hahaha.That’s okay, he was a better actor than he was given credit for 😂

@@AngelaM55 Thanks for the heart.

Jef Olson Absolutely agree!

It's not Harry Reasoner.

Agreed! What a tragedy. I’ve read letters between Gene and Jeanette - and while there appears to be love - their relationship just doesnt ring true to me. He seems to always want to be apart from her. He preferred men to women, Jeanette played the beard, so it makes sense. Tragic.

Your welcome Beth!

I'm reading the book Soul Mates and Twin Flames The Spiritual Dimension of Love and Relationships and the first chapter is their story. Amazing.

Yet they didn’t end up together.

He was absolutely doing that, avoiding answering!

JIM RICK It’s not the one from the 1950s Favorites in HiFi. This version is from the Rose Marie soundtrack, I’m pretty sure.

We don’t know.

Garry Wood I had to Google Love Island, we don’t have that program here in the US - at least I’ve never seen it but I guess I’m not missing anything. These two were spiritually, emotionally, intellectually, artistically and physically matched - what they had was rare and beautiful. Everything is so tawdry today. They struggled with the morality of their convoluted marital mess. These were good people in a bad situation. 💔

@@AngelaM55 Sometimes you only realise the true value of a moment when it becomes a memory.

Your right, there is definitely a resemblance. But Nelson had that granite jawline.

No ..Eisenhower!!

bikefixer , no, get glasses.

Big Country No. She died in 65. He died in 67.

I think he was a sick man a heart condition or something similar. And he was obviously very much in love with his co star so sad...