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 Here we see Marie Wilson with Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly as well as Jeanette MacDonald at a Hollywood party in 1935.

The only Jeanette MacDonald movie I ever saw on local television was SAN FRANCISCO ( 1938 )..Jeanette MacDonald was a star in the thirties, who is best known for working with Nelson Eddy, but none of those movies were ever run here*.

The fact that those movies were not being run here does not mean that there is no interest in them or that these stars have been forgotten. Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are still popular. There is still a fan club for them which has been publishing a fanzine**, . 

 and it's even possible to get back issues of their fanzine.reprinted in book form.

.The popularity of stars does not depend entirely on how recenty or how often their movies have been run on television. It depends more on whether anyone actually likes the movies, something which could be related to their availability, but which does not depend entirely on that.

*A PBS documentary on Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy was run here, but not the movies themselves..

**I have seen this fanzine at a local auction, so someone in this area was getting it, and what I have written is not theoretical. It is a description of things as I know them to have been at that time.


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Merry Christmas

From

Myrna Loy

Muriel Evans

Buster Keaton

Iris Adrian

Marie Wilson

Bette Davis

Bela Lugosi

Boris Karloff

Bob Hope

Bob Hope and Lucille Ball

Rosemary and Priscilla Lane

Arlene Dahl

Debbie Reynolds

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Jeanette MacDonald Photos

Jeanette MacDonald was a star in the thirties, who is best known for working with Nelson Eddy. We have a few pictures of her with Thelma Todd on this blog.



Thelma Todd, Jeanette MacDonald and Bob Ritchie at a cocktail party given by Paula Stone. Dated 12/7/35 on the backside.

 Another photo from the same party.

 Here we see Marie Wilson with Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly as well as Jeanette MacDonald at a Hollywood party in 1935.

And here is another one.

Thelma Todd is at left, with Paula Stone, Jeanette MacDonald, and Patsy Kelly. What appears to be the same box of candy appears in this picture, too.

Another picture of Jeanette MacDonald with Paula Stone from the same period.

Reblogged from http://www.basilrathbone.net/gallery/posed2.htm

Dolores Del Rio, Fay Wray, Jeanette MacDonald, Paula Stone, Anita Louise, Fred Stone, James Blakeley, Johnny Mack Brown, Russell Hardie, Glenda Farrell, Basil Rathbone, and three unidentified women

This copy was published in HOLLYWOOD, April 1936.

A cut scene from The Girl of the Golden West (MGM, 1938) with Jeanette MacDonald, Carol Tevis, and Ray Bolger

With Clark Gable in SAN FRANCISCO ( 1938 ). This is the only Jeanette MacDonald movie I've ever seen on local television.

The television cartoon DUDLEY DO-RIGHT featured caricatures of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddie, along with horse.

Special thanks to Margie for supplying many of the pictures used here.

DUDLEY DO-RIGHT:
http://www.toonopedia.com/dudley.htm

Jeanette MacDonald And Nelson Eddy site:
http://maceddy.com/

Paula Stone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Stone



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Paula Stone Photos

More Paula Stone photos, with some other familiar faces.

From front to back: June Travis, Paula Stone, Alma Lloyd, Kay Linaker, Eunice Healey, Marie Wilson

 Paula Stone interviewing Betty Grable on the radio during the second World War.

Paula Stone Interviewing Dinah Shore on her radio program. 

Paula Stone interviewing Joan Crawford in 1952.

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MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS

MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS is the reissue version of BABES IN TOYLAND. It has frequently been run on Thanksgiving as a holiday special. Laurel and Hardy are the stars, with Charlotte Henry and Marie Wilson in the cast. Mickey Mouse is played by Josephine the monkey. The scene where he throws a brick at the cat was inspired by Krazy Kat.






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Marie Wilson Photos

Marie Wilson and friends at Paula Stone's party in late 1935.






From front to back: June Travis, Paula Stone, Alma Lloyd, Kay Linaker, Eunice Healey, Marie Wilson

Same girls that were in the Christmas carol picture.

 With Ann Sheridan.

Marie Wilson, Ann Sheridan, and Margaret Lindsay in BROADWAY MUSKETEERS.

 With Ruth Terry in ROOKIES ON PARADE ( 1941 )

 With Martha Raye at a charity event to raise funding for a dog hospital.

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From Mexico With Adulation Rides Again

American movie stars were very popular in latin america. Here is a Mexican fan magazine from January 4, 1936, Mujeres Deportes.

At the time this was written, Shirley Temple was the biggest star in the movies. 

 

 

The cartoon feature is Feg Murry's SEEIN' STARS.

 

 

Thelma Todd was still in the news at the beginning of 1936 as she had died recently and the investigation was still trying to figure out if it had been an accident, murder, or suicide. A question that still hasn't been decided absolutely.

 

Paula Stone, June Travis, Alma Lloyd, Kay Linaker, Marie Wilson and Eunice Healy appear to be singing Christmas carols in the picture at top right.*

And Shirley Temple can be seen again at bottom right.




* Paula Stone gave a party that Thelma Todd, Patsy Kelly, and Marie Wilson went to towards the end of 1935. We've had a photograph that was taken at that party on the blog before. Jeanette McDonald was in it, too.


Paula Stone:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2014/08/paula-stone.html


Marie Wilson:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/04/marie-wilson-and-my-friend-irma.html
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The Marie Wilson Story - RADIO MIRROR, October 1949

Marie Wilson is best known as MY FRIEND IRMA on the radio, television, and the movies. But her career in the movies goes all the way back to the 1930's, and she was in Laurel and Hardy's BABES IN TOYLAND. Here is her story, from one of the fan magazines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Marie Wilson did have her own fan club, who would write letters to the studios in support of her.

SIREN OF ATLANTIS was a Maria Montez movie.

 

 

Cy Howard:
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/30/obituaries/cy-howard-writer-and-producer-of-my-friend-irma-dies-at-77.html


Keno:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keno


Ken Murray:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Murray_(entertainer)


SIREN OF ATLANTIS:
http://mariamontez.org/sirenofatlantis2.html


Marie Wilson:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/04/marie-wilson-and-my-friend-irma.html








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