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Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald - America`s Sweethearts

On Valentine?s Day, Hollywood?s greatest romantic team, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, were celebrated by all. Their thirty-year, off-screen love affair was a great example for Valentine`s Day lovers to see. Eddy wrote the love song `My Wonder One` for MacDonald but unfortunately, their love had a tragic ending.

Pictures really are worth a thousand words as we see Nelson?s devotion to Jeanette over the decades in candid photos from 1935, 1941 and 1960. Eddy was a man of many talents and wrote a song for Jeanette called `My Wonder One`. He first sang it on his radio show in 1946 and shocked his fans. It was evident the lovesick lyrics were not about Eddy?s wife, Ann Franklin, since the trades reported that they were currently trying to negotiate a divorce settlement.

Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy were stars of blockbuster MGM musicals like `Naughty Marietta`, `Rose Marie` and `Maytime`, the highest grossing international film of 1937. Supposed enemies off-screen, their off-screen love affair began in 1935 and survived studio interference by boss Louis B. Mayer, marriages to others, infidelities, numerous breakups and their clashing temperaments. When MacDonald died in 1965 from a heart condition, Eddy drowned his sorrow in drink and worked non-stop until just two years later, he collapsed onstage in Miami with a fatal stroke.