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• ‘AMERI’S SWEETHEARTS’ – OR WERE THEY? JULY 2, 2015 ADM DID YOU KNOW? 12  BGRAPHERS HAVE TRIED FOR YEARS TO FIGURE OUT THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN SGERS NELSON EDDY AND JEATE MACDONALD. MOST HAVE GIVEN UP. ON THE ONE HAND WE HAVE EDDY, LIFELONG ‘SISSY’, TIED TO HIS MOTHER’S APRON-STRGS, A BISEXUAL MAN WHO FELY PREFERRED MALE LOVERS TO FEMALE ON, BUT WHO SEEMED TO (OM TIME TO TIME) FALL HEAD OVER HEELS FOR MACDONALD. JEATE MACDONALD, BY PARISON, WAS STREET-WISE AND ENTIRELY HETEROSEXUAL. IN FACT, PRETTY, ‘BUTTER WOULDN’T MELT HER MOUTH’ JEATE WAS ONCE A LL GIRL NEW YORK CY (BACK THE TWENTI), BEFORE SHE H BIG MOVI. HER LETTERS TO EDDY ACTUALLY DISCS THIS. SHE ALSO REGULARLY SLEPT WH HER BOSS, LOUIS B MAYER, ORR TO FAST-TRACK HER  REER ONCE SHE REACHED MGM. SHE SLEPT WH DIRECTOR ERNST LUBSCH AS WELL, AND FOR THE SAME REASON, ALTHOUGH SHE WAS IGID AND NEVER LIKED SEX MUCH AT ALL. IT WAS A MEANS TO AN END, NOTHG MORE. MAYER SLEPT WH HUNDREDS OF HIS ACTRS, BUT HE ONLY EVER FELL LOVE WH TWO OF THEM – MACDONALD AND GREER GARSON. WHAT HE SAW EHER OF THEM IS A MYSTERY, FOR NEHER WAS OVERLY POPULAR WH HER PEERS.      JEATE PRE-FAME DAYS                            ERNST LUBSCHMACDONALD WAS BORN PHILALPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 1903. HER SISTER WOULD ONE DAY (1964) PLAY GRAND MAMMA THE ADDAMS FAY TV SERI, UNR HER MARRIED NAME, BLOSSOM ROCK. JEATE’S TALENT AS A SGER BEME APPARENT AT AN EARLY AGE, BUT TOOK UNTIL SHE WAS 25 BEFORE SHE LAND A NTRACT WH PARAMOUNT PICTUR. DIRECTOR ERNST LUBSCH MET HER, BEDD HER, AND SIGNED HER. SHE MA THE LOVE PARA OPPOSE MRICE CHEVALIER 1929, BUT MILS WENT OUT OF FAVOUR SOON AFTERWARDS, SO PARAMOUNT LET HER GO 1931.HER SISTER, BLOSSOM ROCK, AS GRAND MAMMA THE ADDAMS FAY (1964)WHEN IRVG THALBERG NVCED HER TO E OVER TO MGM 1933, MAY WELL HAVE BEEN AT LB MAYER’S SISTENCE, FOR SHE WAS SOON SLEEPG WH HER 50 YEAR-OLD BOSS ON A REGULAR BASIS AS SHE CLIMBED THE STAIRWAY TO CEMA SUCCS. IN 1935 SHE H PAY-DIRT WHEN THE STUD PAIRED HER WH NELSON EDDY NGHTY MARIETTA, THE FIRST OF EIGHT MILS ‘AMERI’S SGG SWEETHEARTS’ WOULD MAKE TOGETHER. THEY WERE A SENSATN. THEY WERE ALSO, OCSNALLY, TIMATE.MGM BOSS – LOUIS B MAYEREARLY 1935, JEATE BEGAN DATG ACTOR GENE RAYMOND. BEFORE LONG SHE WAS PREGNANT, BUT THE QUTN WAS – TO WHOM? THE CHILD ULD HAVE BEEN EDDY’S, RAYMOND’S OR MAYER’S. NOT THAT MATTERED THE LONG N. MGM ARRANGED AN ABORTN AND THE PROBLEM NO LONGER EXISTED. EDDY’S SEXUALY WAS AN ENIGMA. HE WAS BISEXUAL AND HAD AFFAIRS WH LOTS OF WOMEN, BUT VARIABLY RETURNED TO MEN. AT LEAST THREE ABORTNS AND ONE ILLEGIMATE CHILD HAVE BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO HIM. IT WOULD APPEAR THAT MAYBELLE MARSTON HAD HIS CHILD 1934.BISEXUAL NELSON EDDYRAYMOND HAD RECENTLY BEEN PICKED UP BY MGM (NOBODY SEEMS TO KNOW WHY), WHEN RKO ‘LET HIM GO’, AFTER BEG FORCED TO PAY OFF THE FAY OF A YOUNG TEENAGE BOY WHOM RAYMOND HAD BEEN SCG. MAYER WAS OFTEN KEPT THE DARK ABOUT THE HOMOSEXUALS HE EMPLOYED, SIMPLY BEE HE WAS HOMOPHOBIC AND WOULD HAVE FIRED THEM ON THE SPOT. THALBERG, MAYER’S SEND MAND, WAS MORE BS-LIKE HIS APPROACH TO THE ISSUE. IF THEY MA A PROF FOR THE STUD THEY STAYED. NEVERTHELS, RAYMOND WOULD BE TROUBLOME.GENE RAYMONDBY 1937, EDDY AND MACDONALD WERE TABLISHED SUPERSTARS. AS WELL AS NGHTY MARIETTA, THEY HAD PUNCHED OUT ROSE MARIE AND MAYTIME TOGETHER, AND JEATE HAD SRED ANOTHER BIG SUCCS WH SAN FRANCIS, PLAYG OPPOSE NONE OTHER THAN CLARK GABLE. ODDLY ENOUGH, GABLE TOLD IENDS THAT HE ONLY EVER DISLIKED TWO ACTRS HOLLYWOOD – MACDONALD AND GREER GARSON – THE SAME TWO THAT MAYER WAS NUTS ABOUT. FOR HER PART, JEATE PLAED THAT CLARK STANK OF GARLIC AND BOOZE THEIR LOVE SCEN. THERE WAS CERTALY NO LOVE LOST THERE.IN SAN FRANCIS (1936)MGM FIXERS, HOWARD STRICKLG AND EDDIE MANNIX, WERE STCTED BY MAYER TO PROMOTE TALK OF A BUDDG ROMANCE BETWEEN HIS TWO SONGBIRDS. IT WOULD BOOST TICKET SAL. ITEMS BEGAN TO APPEAR PAPERS AND MAGAZ ABOUT JEATE AND NELSON BEG TOTALLY SMTEN WH EACH OTHER, AND THE PUBLIC LAPPED UP. MACDONALD WAS STILL SERVICG MAYER HIS OFFICE ON A WEEKLY BASIS, AND EDDY WAS STILL ‘SEARCHG’ FOR A TE LOVE, PREFERABLY ONE WEARG A SU AND TIE. THE NCTED ROMANTIC FAIRY TALE ONLY LASTED FOR SO LONG. SOON, THE TABLOIDS WERE AGA QUTNG EDDY’S LACK OF FEMALE PANNS. HE HAD NO GIRLIENDS AT ALL, WHEREAS JEATE HAD TOO MANY BOYIENDS ALTOGETHER. MAYER CID WAS EVERYONE’S TERT IF BOTH HIS STARS GOT THEMSELV MARRIED. JEATE WAS TOLD TO TIE THE KNOT WH RAYMOND.MR & MRS RAYMONDBY THEN BISEXUAL NELSON WAS STARTG TO GET ‘HOT’ ABOUT HIS SGG PARTNER. PERHAPS, HE WAS BEGNG TO BELIEVE THE TABLOIDS. PART OF THE MYSTERY SURROUNDG THEIR RELATNSHIP LI BOTH NELSON AND JEATE HAVG PERDS WHEN THEY WERE ACTUALLY QUE STRONGLY ATTRACTED TO ONE ANOTHER. HOWEVER, SEEMS THAT THEIR FEELGS NEVER REALLY ORDATED. WHEN MAYER SISTED EDDY SG AT JEATE’S WEDDG TO RAYMOND, HE DID SO, THEN SOBBED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CEREMONY. IT APPEARS HE WAS A CREATURE OF EXTREM AND NOT REALLY SURE WHAT HE WANTED THE LOVE PARTMENT.ON HER HONEYMOON, JEATE FOUND OUT THAT HER NEW HBAND WAS GAY. SHE RETURNED HOME THE NEXT DAY – SIX WEEKS EARLY. IN JANUARY, RAYMOND WAS ARRTED ON ‘A MORALS CHARGE’ DURG A RAID ON A HOMOSEXUAL CLUB. JEATE UGHED UP $1,000 BRIBE MONEY AND GOT THE CHARG DROPPED, AND THE POLICE RERDS ALTERED. THEY SURVIVE TODAY, CHANGED TO READ, ‘MISS GENE RAYMOND’S ARRT FOR PROSTUTN’. SOON AFTERWARDS, TO MONSTRATE HIS GRATU, SLEAZY GENE BEAT JEATE PRETTY BADLY. SHE ARRIVED AT A PARTY THAT EVENG ALONE, BADLY BISED AND BATTERED; AND EDDY TORE AROUND TO HER HOME AND BASHED HER HBAND UNNSC HIS OWN DRIVEWAY.MGM’S ‘FIXER’ – HOWARD STRICKLGBY SPRG OF 1938 RAYMOND HAD MOVED OUT OF THEIR HOME AND WAS SHARG A HOE WH A 19 YEAR-OLD GAY ACTOR. EVERYONE KNEW. ONCE AGA, HOWEVER, JEATE WAS PREGNANT, EHER TO EDDY OR HER HBAND. STRICKLG BOOKED HER TO A HOSPAL FOR AN ‘EAR FECTN’, AN ABORTN WAS PERFORMED, AND THE PRS WERE RMED THAT SHE HAD FALLEN DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS AND LOST HER HBAND’S BABY. VERY SAD. MAYER THEN TOLD THE UPLE TO ‘GET BACK TOGETHER AGA’ OR THEIR REERS WOULD BE OVER. SO, OF URSE, THEY DID.MR & MRS EDDYEDDY, TOO, WAS ORRED TO ‘FD A BRI’, ONE WHO WAS NOT SEXUALLY MANDG AND WOULD REMA TIGHT-LIPPED ABOUT HIS SEXUALY. MATRONLY, OLR ANN FRANKL, EX-WIFE OF DIRECTOR SYDNEY FRANKL, MET THE REQUIREMENTS AND WAS SELECTED. THE UPLE ELOPED TO VEGAS JANUARY 1939, MUCH TO THE ASTONISHMENT OF EVERYONE EXCEPT MAYER AND STRICKLG. JEATE BROKE DOWN WHEN TOLD OF THE MARRIAGE. ONCE AGA, SHE DISPLAYED FEELGS FOR EDDY (BRIEFLY), BUT THEIR ENTIRE RELATNSHIP WAS WEIRD, AGMENTED, AND NSISTENT.MGM’S ATTEMPT TO CREATE A ROMANCE BETWEEN EDDY AND MACDONALD, JT TO CREASE TICKET SAL, NEVER WORKED. THEY WERE JT TOO DIFFERENT. HE WAS A LIFELONG ‘SISSY’, TIED TO HIS MOTHER’S APRON-STRGS ( FACT, HE LIVED WH HER), AND MORE PRONE TO SLEEPG WH MEN THAN WOMEN. JEATE WAS HETEROSEXUAL, BUT PROMISCUO AND AMB, AND NFED ABOUT HER FEELGS FOR EDDY AND ABOUT LOVE GENERAL.IN 1942, BOTH STARS WOULD LEAVE MGM FOREVER. IN 1943, JT TO SHOW SHE WAS AS MIXED UP AS EVER, JEATE WAS QUOTED AS SAYG OF HER MARRIAGE: ‘I N’T BELIEVE HOW BLSED I AM! I’M MARRIED TO THE MOST WONRFUL MAN, GENE RAYMOND, WHOM I’M EPLY LOVE WH, AND MY REER IS RIGHT WHERE I WANT TO BE. I N LIVE LIKE THIS FOREVER!’ THEN, THE 50S, WHEN ASKED BY SAMUEL GRIFF, WHY SHE MARRIED GENE RAYMOND STEAD OF NELSON EDDY, SHE REPLIED: ‘I MT HAVE HAD ROCKS MY HEAD.’ SHE STILL ULDN’T MAKE UP HER MD.SHE AND RAYMOND REMAED MARRIED UNTIL HER ATH 1965. EDDY REMAED MARRIED TO FRANKL UNTIL HIS ATH 1967. ‘I DON’T KNOW WHY PEOPLE STILL WANT TO BELIEVE THAT JEATE MACDONALD AND I WERE A UPLE OFF THE SET,’ HE SAID 1957. ‘THERE’S NO TTH TO THAT MOUR, AT ALL. SHE’S HAPPILY MARRIED TO GENE RAYMOND AND I’M HAPPILY MARRIED TO ANNE.’ MAYBE, THEY FALLY WERE. TIME N WORK WONRS.  ANN ANKLBLOSSOM ROCKCLARK GABLEERNST LUBSCHGENE RAYMONDGRAND MAMMAGREER GARSONHOWARD STRICKLGJEATE MACDONALDLOUIS B MAYERMAYTIMEMGMNGHTY MARIETTANELSON EDDYPARAMOUNTROSE MARIAN ANCISTHE ADDAMS FAY PREVPREV POST NEXTTHELMA TODD’S ATH – MAYBE MURR AFTER ALL? 12 COMMENTS CAROL MAY 18, 2020 AT 7:46 AM I WOULD SUGGT YOU NTACT SHARON RICH AND PERHAPS READ HER BOOK “AMERI’S SWEETHEARTS” ON NELSON AND JEATE AS SHE SEEMS TO BE THE MOST WELL VERSED THORY ON THEM. SHE HAS LLECTED LOTS OF EVINCE AND ARTIFACTS OVER THE YEARS. NOT THAT MATTERS BUT WAS GENE WHO WAS BISEXUAL NOT NELSON OM THE EVINCE LLECTED.REPLY CAROL MAY 18, 2020 AT 7:49 AM SORRY THE BOOK IS LLED “SWEETHEART’S”. IT’S AN EXCELLENT READ.REPLY PETER MARSTON JUNE 28, 2018 AT 5:03 PM MAYBELLE MARSTON DID NOT HAVE NELSON EDDY’S CHILD. I AM HER GRANDSON AND MY FATHER WAS LIVG WH HER THROUGHOUT THE TIME SHE ALLEGEDLY HAD THIS CHILD AND SURELY A FULL TERM PREGNANCY ULD NOT BE HIDN OM A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD SON WHO HAD LIVED HIS ENTIRE LIFE WH HIS MOTHER. MY FATHER HAD BEEN TERVIEWED BY SEVERAL EDDY BGRAPHERS OVER THE YEARS AND ALMOST WHOUT EXCEPTN THEY ME TO REJECT THE POSSIBILY OF MAYBELLE BEG THE MOTHER.REPLY ALAN ROYLE JUNE 29, 2018 AT 6:06 PM THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYG THAT, PETER. I READ SEVERAL SOURC THAT MAYBELLE MAY HAVE HAD HIS CHILD, HENCE I WROTE ‘APPEARS TO BE’. THANKS AGA FOR CLEARG THAT UP.REPLY MARY KAY PLATT JUNE 8, 2018 AT 1:30 PM WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS SON JON?REPLY ALAN ROYLE JUNE 10, 2018 AT 11:25 AM I’M SORRY, MARY, BUT TO WHOSE SON DO YOU REFER?REPLY SAN WRIGHT SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 AT 10:42 AM A UPLE OF IMPORTANT PIEC LEFT OUT OF THE STORY – WHEN MGM BORROWED BISEXUAL ACTOR TYRONE POWER FOR THEIR PRODUCTN OF “MARIE ANTOETTE”, DIRECTED BY W.S. VAN DYKE, NELSON EDDY EMBARKED ON AN AFFAIR WH POWER WHICH RATTLED THE STUD AND ACRDG TO THE HOWARD STRICKLG’S FIL AND RERDS, RULTED AN ANGRY MEETG BETWEEN DARYL ZANUCK OM FOX (POWER’S STUD) AND L.B. MAYER. THAT WAS THE REASON EDDY WAS ORRED TO GET MARRIED IMMEDIATELY. IN ADDN, EDDY HAD A LONG AND OPEN RELATNSHIP WH THEODORE “TED” PAXSON HIS ACPANIST AND MORE……. I RECENTLY REVIEWED DOZENS OF LETTERS WRTEN BETWEEN EDDY AND PAXSON WHILE REARCHG A FORTHG BOOK PROJECT.REPLY ALAN ROYLE SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 AT 2:02 PM THAT IS MOST TERTG, SAN. I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT NELSON AND TY, SO THAT IS NEWS TO ME, ALTHOUGH I WAS AWARE THAT THE LATTER’S MARRIAGE TO ANNABELLA WAS MORE FOR SHOW THAN ANYTHG ELSE. AT LEAST I BELIEVE SO. YOUR REARCH MAY PROVE THAT TO BE RRECT. PLEASE, LET ME KNOW WHEN YOUR BOOK IS PUBLISHED. I WILL CERTALY PURCHASE A PY. SOUNDS FASCATG. THANK YOU FOR YOUR MENTS.REPLY MARTHA CLARK JULY 13, 2017 AT 1:54 PM WHERE DID YOU GET THE IA THAT NELSON EDDY WAS BI? GENE RAYMOND, SURE, THERE ARE RERDS OF ARRTS, ETC., BUT NELSON EDDY? NOPE!REPLY ALAN ROYLE JULY 17, 2017 AT 5:12 PM MANY SOURC CLAIM EDDY WAS BISEXUAL, MARTHA. THEY ULD BE WRONG, OF URSE, BUT HISTORIANS MT ASSS WHAT THEY FD AND DRAW LOGIL NCLNS OM SOMETIM RATHER SNT RMATN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR MENT.REPLY CHANTILLYLACE JUNE 5, 2021 AT 10:16 PM THERE IS NO WAY NELSON EDDY WAS BISEXUAL – HE LOVED WOMEN. Y, HIS MOTHER LIVED WH HIM – THEY WERE VERY CLOSE AND HE FANCIALLY SUPPORTED HER AFTER HIS FATHER LEFT. NELSON EDDY WAS A TE GENTLEMAN. I’M SO SICK OF PEOPLE ALIGNG HIS MEMORY, HE WAS A WONRFUL MAN.REPLY ALAN ROYLE JUNE 6, 2021 AT 11:15 AM NUMERO SOURC SCRIBE EDDY AS BISEXUAL – NOT THAT MATTERS TO ME ANYWAY. YOU APPEAR TO NSIR BISEXUALY TO BE A ‘MALIGNG’ CLASSIFITN. I DON’T.REPLYLEAVE A REPLY CANCEL REPLYYOUR EMAIL ADDRS WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.COMMENTNAME *EMAIL *WEBSESAVE MY NAME, EMAIL, AND WEBSE THIS BROWSER FOR THE NEXT TIME I MENT. 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‘AMERI’S SWEETHEARTS’ – OR WERE THEY? JULY 2, 2015 ADM DID YOU KNOW? 12  BGRAPHERS HAVE TRIED FOR YEARS TO FIGURE OUT THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN SGERS NELSON EDDY AND JEATE MACDONALD. MOST HAVE GIVEN UP. ON THE ONE HAND WE HAVE EDDY, LIFELONG ‘SISSY’, TIED TO HIS MOTHER’S APRON-STRGS, A BISEXUAL MAN WHO FELY PREFERRED MALE LOVERS TO FEMALE ON, BUT WHO SEEMED TO (OM TIME TO TIME) FALL HEAD OVER HEELS FOR MACDONALD. JEATE MACDONALD, BY PARISON, WAS STREET-WISE AND ENTIRELY HETEROSEXUAL. IN FACT, PRETTY, ‘BUTTER WOULDN’T MELT HER MOUTH’ JEATE WAS ONCE A LL GIRL NEW YORK CY (BACK THE TWENTI), BEFORE SHE H BIG MOVI. HER LETTERS TO EDDY ACTUALLY DISCS THIS. SHE ALSO REGULARLY SLEPT WH HER BOSS, LOUIS B MAYER, ORR TO FAST-TRACK HER  REER ONCE SHE REACHED MGM. SHE SLEPT WH DIRECTOR ERNST LUBSCH AS WELL, AND FOR THE SAME REASON, ALTHOUGH SHE WAS IGID AND NEVER LIKED SEX MUCH AT ALL. IT WAS A MEANS TO AN END, NOTHG MORE. MAYER SLEPT WH HUNDREDS OF HIS ACTRS, BUT HE ONLY EVER FELL LOVE WH TWO OF THEM – MACDONALD AND GREER GARSON. WHAT HE SAW EHER OF THEM IS A MYSTERY, FOR NEHER WAS OVERLY POPULAR WH HER PEERS.      JEATE PRE-FAME DAYS                            ERNST LUBSCHMACDONALD WAS BORN PHILALPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 1903. HER SISTER WOULD ONE DAY (1964) PLAY GRAND MAMMA THE ADDAMS FAY TV SERI, UNR HER MARRIED NAME, BLOSSOM ROCK. JEATE’S TALENT AS A SGER BEME APPARENT AT AN EARLY AGE, BUT TOOK UNTIL SHE WAS 25 BEFORE SHE LAND A NTRACT WH PARAMOUNT PICTUR. DIRECTOR ERNST LUBSCH MET HER, BEDD HER, AND SIGNED HER. SHE MA THE LOVE PARA OPPOSE MRICE CHEVALIER 1929, BUT MILS WENT OUT OF FAVOUR SOON AFTERWARDS, SO PARAMOUNT LET HER GO 1931.HER SISTER, BLOSSOM ROCK, AS GRAND MAMMA THE ADDAMS FAY (1964)WHEN IRVG THALBERG NVCED HER TO E OVER TO MGM 1933, MAY WELL HAVE BEEN AT LB MAYER’S SISTENCE, FOR SHE WAS SOON SLEEPG WH HER 50 YEAR-OLD BOSS ON A REGULAR BASIS AS SHE CLIMBED THE STAIRWAY TO CEMA SUCCS. IN 1935 SHE H PAY-DIRT WHEN THE STUD PAIRED HER WH NELSON EDDY NGHTY MARIETTA, THE FIRST OF EIGHT MILS ‘AMERI’S SGG SWEETHEARTS’ WOULD MAKE TOGETHER. THEY WERE A SENSATN. THEY WERE ALSO, OCSNALLY, TIMATE.MGM BOSS – LOUIS B MAYEREARLY 1935, JEATE BEGAN DATG ACTOR GENE RAYMOND. BEFORE LONG SHE WAS PREGNANT, BUT THE QUTN WAS – TO WHOM? THE CHILD ULD HAVE BEEN EDDY’S, RAYMOND’S OR MAYER’S. NOT THAT MATTERED THE LONG N. MGM ARRANGED AN ABORTN AND THE PROBLEM NO LONGER EXISTED. EDDY’S SEXUALY WAS AN ENIGMA. HE WAS BISEXUAL AND HAD AFFAIRS WH LOTS OF WOMEN, BUT VARIABLY RETURNED TO MEN. AT LEAST THREE ABORTNS AND ONE ILLEGIMATE CHILD HAVE BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO HIM. IT WOULD APPEAR THAT MAYBELLE MARSTON HAD HIS CHILD 1934.BISEXUAL NELSON EDDYRAYMOND HAD RECENTLY BEEN PICKED UP BY MGM (NOBODY SEEMS TO KNOW WHY), WHEN RKO ‘LET HIM GO’, AFTER BEG FORCED TO PAY OFF THE FAY OF A YOUNG TEENAGE BOY WHOM RAYMOND HAD BEEN SCG. MAYER WAS OFTEN KEPT THE DARK ABOUT THE HOMOSEXUALS HE EMPLOYED, SIMPLY BEE HE WAS HOMOPHOBIC AND WOULD HAVE FIRED THEM ON THE SPOT. THALBERG, MAYER’S SEND MAND, WAS MORE BS-LIKE HIS APPROACH TO THE ISSUE. IF THEY MA A PROF FOR THE STUD THEY STAYED. NEVERTHELS, RAYMOND WOULD BE TROUBLOME.GENE RAYMONDBY 1937, EDDY AND MACDONALD WERE TABLISHED SUPERSTARS. AS WELL AS NGHTY MARIETTA, THEY HAD PUNCHED OUT ROSE MARIE AND MAYTIME TOGETHER, AND JEATE HAD SRED ANOTHER BIG SUCCS WH SAN FRANCIS, PLAYG OPPOSE NONE OTHER THAN CLARK GABLE. ODDLY ENOUGH, GABLE TOLD IENDS THAT HE ONLY EVER DISLIKED TWO ACTRS HOLLYWOOD – MACDONALD AND GREER GARSON – THE SAME TWO THAT MAYER WAS NUTS ABOUT. FOR HER PART, JEATE PLAED THAT CLARK STANK OF GARLIC AND BOOZE THEIR LOVE SCEN. THERE WAS CERTALY NO LOVE LOST THERE.IN SAN FRANCIS (1936)MGM FIXERS, HOWARD STRICKLG AND EDDIE MANNIX, WERE STCTED BY MAYER TO PROMOTE TALK OF A BUDDG ROMANCE BETWEEN HIS TWO SONGBIRDS. IT WOULD BOOST TICKET SAL. ITEMS BEGAN TO APPEAR PAPERS AND MAGAZ ABOUT JEATE AND NELSON BEG TOTALLY SMTEN WH EACH OTHER, AND THE PUBLIC LAPPED UP. MACDONALD WAS STILL SERVICG MAYER HIS OFFICE ON A WEEKLY BASIS, AND EDDY WAS STILL ‘SEARCHG’ FOR A TE LOVE, PREFERABLY ONE WEARG A SU AND TIE. THE NCTED ROMANTIC FAIRY TALE ONLY LASTED FOR SO LONG. SOON, THE TABLOIDS WERE AGA QUTNG EDDY’S LACK OF FEMALE PANNS. HE HAD NO GIRLIENDS AT ALL, WHEREAS JEATE HAD TOO MANY BOYIENDS ALTOGETHER. MAYER CID WAS EVERYONE’S TERT IF BOTH HIS STARS GOT THEMSELV MARRIED. JEATE WAS TOLD TO TIE THE KNOT WH RAYMOND.MR & MRS RAYMONDBY THEN BISEXUAL NELSON WAS STARTG TO GET ‘HOT’ ABOUT HIS SGG PARTNER. PERHAPS, HE WAS BEGNG TO BELIEVE THE TABLOIDS. PART OF THE MYSTERY SURROUNDG THEIR RELATNSHIP LI BOTH NELSON AND JEATE HAVG PERDS WHEN THEY WERE ACTUALLY QUE STRONGLY ATTRACTED TO ONE ANOTHER. HOWEVER, SEEMS THAT THEIR FEELGS NEVER REALLY ORDATED. WHEN MAYER SISTED EDDY SG AT JEATE’S WEDDG TO RAYMOND, HE DID SO, THEN SOBBED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CEREMONY. IT APPEARS HE WAS A CREATURE OF EXTREM AND NOT REALLY SURE WHAT HE WANTED THE LOVE PARTMENT.ON HER HONEYMOON, JEATE FOUND OUT THAT HER NEW HBAND WAS GAY. SHE RETURNED HOME THE NEXT DAY – SIX WEEKS EARLY. IN JANUARY, RAYMOND WAS ARRTED ON ‘A MORALS CHARGE’ DURG A RAID ON A HOMOSEXUAL CLUB. JEATE UGHED UP $1,000 BRIBE MONEY AND GOT THE CHARG DROPPED, AND THE POLICE RERDS ALTERED. THEY SURVIVE TODAY, CHANGED TO READ, ‘MISS GENE RAYMOND’S ARRT FOR PROSTUTN’. SOON AFTERWARDS, TO MONSTRATE HIS GRATU, SLEAZY GENE BEAT JEATE PRETTY BADLY. SHE ARRIVED AT A PARTY THAT EVENG ALONE, BADLY BISED AND BATTERED; AND EDDY TORE AROUND TO HER HOME AND BASHED HER HBAND UNNSC HIS OWN DRIVEWAY.MGM’S ‘FIXER’ – HOWARD STRICKLGBY SPRG OF 1938 RAYMOND HAD MOVED OUT OF THEIR HOME AND WAS SHARG A HOE WH A 19 YEAR-OLD GAY ACTOR. EVERYONE KNEW. ONCE AGA, HOWEVER, JEATE WAS PREGNANT, EHER TO EDDY OR HER HBAND. STRICKLG BOOKED HER TO A HOSPAL FOR AN ‘EAR FECTN’, AN ABORTN WAS PERFORMED, AND THE PRS WERE RMED THAT SHE HAD FALLEN DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS AND LOST HER HBAND’S BABY. VERY SAD. MAYER THEN TOLD THE UPLE TO ‘GET BACK TOGETHER AGA’ OR THEIR REERS WOULD BE OVER. SO, OF URSE, THEY DID.MR & MRS EDDYEDDY, TOO, WAS ORRED TO ‘FD A BRI’, ONE WHO WAS NOT SEXUALLY MANDG AND WOULD REMA TIGHT-LIPPED ABOUT HIS SEXUALY. MATRONLY, OLR ANN FRANKL, EX-WIFE OF DIRECTOR SYDNEY FRANKL, MET THE REQUIREMENTS AND WAS SELECTED. THE UPLE ELOPED TO VEGAS JANUARY 1939, MUCH TO THE ASTONISHMENT OF EVERYONE EXCEPT MAYER AND STRICKLG. JEATE BROKE DOWN WHEN TOLD OF THE MARRIAGE. ONCE AGA, SHE DISPLAYED FEELGS FOR EDDY (BRIEFLY), BUT THEIR ENTIRE RELATNSHIP WAS WEIRD, AGMENTED, AND NSISTENT.MGM’S ATTEMPT TO CREATE A ROMANCE BETWEEN EDDY AND MACDONALD, JT TO CREASE TICKET SAL, NEVER WORKED. THEY WERE JT TOO DIFFERENT. HE WAS A LIFELONG ‘SISSY’, TIED TO HIS MOTHER’S APRON-STRGS ( FACT, HE LIVED WH HER), AND MORE PRONE TO SLEEPG WH MEN THAN WOMEN. JEATE WAS HETEROSEXUAL, BUT PROMISCUO AND AMB, AND NFED ABOUT HER FEELGS FOR EDDY AND ABOUT LOVE GENERAL.IN 1942, BOTH STARS WOULD LEAVE MGM FOREVER. IN 1943, JT TO SHOW SHE WAS AS MIXED UP AS EVER, JEATE WAS QUOTED AS SAYG OF HER MARRIAGE: ‘I N’T BELIEVE HOW BLSED I AM! I’M MARRIED TO THE MOST WONRFUL MAN, GENE RAYMOND, WHOM I’M EPLY LOVE WH, AND MY REER IS RIGHT WHERE I WANT TO BE. I N LIVE LIKE THIS FOREVER!’ THEN, THE 50S, WHEN ASKED BY SAMUEL GRIFF, WHY SHE MARRIED GENE RAYMOND STEAD OF NELSON EDDY, SHE REPLIED: ‘I MT HAVE HAD ROCKS MY HEAD.’ SHE STILL ULDN’T MAKE UP HER MD.SHE AND RAYMOND REMAED MARRIED UNTIL HER ATH 1965. EDDY REMAED MARRIED TO FRANKL UNTIL HIS ATH 1967. ‘I DON’T KNOW WHY PEOPLE STILL WANT TO BELIEVE THAT JEATE MACDONALD AND I WERE A UPLE OFF THE SET,’ HE SAID 1957. ‘THERE’S NO TTH TO THAT MOUR, AT ALL. SHE’S HAPPILY MARRIED TO GENE RAYMOND AND I’M HAPPILY MARRIED TO ANNE.’ MAYBE, THEY FALLY WERE. TIME N WORK WONRS.  ANN ANKLBLOSSOM ROCKCLARK GABLEERNST LUBSCHGENE RAYMONDGRAND MAMMAGREER GARSONHOWARD STRICKLGJEATE MACDONALDLOUIS B MAYERMAYTIMEMGMNGHTY MARIETTANELSON EDDYPARAMOUNTROSE MARIAN ANCISTHE ADDAMS FAY PREVPREV POST NEXTTHELMA TODD’S ATH – MAYBE MURR AFTER ALL? 12 COMMENTS CAROL MAY 18, 2020 AT 7:46 AM I WOULD SUGGT YOU NTACT SHARON RICH AND PERHAPS READ HER BOOK “AMERI’S SWEETHEARTS” ON NELSON AND JEATE AS SHE SEEMS TO BE THE MOST WELL VERSED THORY ON THEM. SHE HAS LLECTED LOTS OF EVINCE AND ARTIFACTS OVER THE YEARS. NOT THAT MATTERS BUT WAS GENE WHO WAS BISEXUAL NOT NELSON OM THE EVINCE LLECTED.REPLY CAROL MAY 18, 2020 AT 7:49 AM SORRY THE BOOK IS LLED “SWEETHEART’S”. IT’S AN EXCELLENT READ.REPLY PETER MARSTON JUNE 28, 2018 AT 5:03 PM MAYBELLE MARSTON DID NOT HAVE NELSON EDDY’S CHILD. I AM HER GRANDSON AND MY FATHER WAS LIVG WH HER THROUGHOUT THE TIME SHE ALLEGEDLY HAD THIS CHILD AND SURELY A FULL TERM PREGNANCY ULD NOT BE HIDN OM A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD SON WHO HAD LIVED HIS ENTIRE LIFE WH HIS MOTHER. MY FATHER HAD BEEN TERVIEWED BY SEVERAL EDDY BGRAPHERS OVER THE YEARS AND ALMOST WHOUT EXCEPTN THEY ME TO REJECT THE POSSIBILY OF MAYBELLE BEG THE MOTHER.REPLY ALAN ROYLE JUNE 29, 2018 AT 6:06 PM THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYG THAT, PETER. I READ SEVERAL SOURC THAT MAYBELLE MAY HAVE HAD HIS CHILD, HENCE I WROTE ‘APPEARS TO BE’. THANKS AGA FOR CLEARG THAT UP.REPLY MARY KAY PLATT JUNE 8, 2018 AT 1:30 PM WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS SON JON?REPLY ALAN ROYLE JUNE 10, 2018 AT 11:25 AM I’M SORRY, MARY, BUT TO WHOSE SON DO YOU REFER?REPLY SAN WRIGHT SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 AT 10:42 AM A UPLE OF IMPORTANT PIEC LEFT OUT OF THE STORY – WHEN MGM BORROWED BISEXUAL ACTOR TYRONE POWER FOR THEIR PRODUCTN OF “MARIE ANTOETTE”, DIRECTED BY W.S. VAN DYKE, NELSON EDDY EMBARKED ON AN AFFAIR WH POWER WHICH RATTLED THE STUD AND ACRDG TO THE HOWARD STRICKLG’S FIL AND RERDS, RULTED AN ANGRY MEETG BETWEEN DARYL ZANUCK OM FOX (POWER’S STUD) AND L.B. MAYER. THAT WAS THE REASON EDDY WAS ORRED TO GET MARRIED IMMEDIATELY. IN ADDN, EDDY HAD A LONG AND OPEN RELATNSHIP WH THEODORE “TED” PAXSON HIS ACPANIST AND MORE……. I RECENTLY REVIEWED DOZENS OF LETTERS WRTEN BETWEEN EDDY AND PAXSON WHILE REARCHG A FORTHG BOOK PROJECT.REPLY ALAN ROYLE SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 AT 2:02 PM THAT IS MOST TERTG, SAN. I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT NELSON AND TY, SO THAT IS NEWS TO ME, ALTHOUGH I WAS AWARE THAT THE LATTER’S MARRIAGE TO ANNABELLA WAS MORE FOR SHOW THAN ANYTHG ELSE. AT LEAST I BELIEVE SO. YOUR REARCH MAY PROVE THAT TO BE RRECT. PLEASE, LET ME KNOW WHEN YOUR BOOK IS PUBLISHED. I WILL CERTALY PURCHASE A PY. SOUNDS FASCATG. THANK YOU FOR YOUR MENTS.REPLY MARTHA CLARK JULY 13, 2017 AT 1:54 PM WHERE DID YOU GET THE IA THAT NELSON EDDY WAS BI? GENE RAYMOND, SURE, THERE ARE RERDS OF ARRTS, ETC., BUT NELSON EDDY? NOPE!REPLY ALAN ROYLE JULY 17, 2017 AT 5:12 PM MANY SOURC CLAIM EDDY WAS BISEXUAL, MARTHA. THEY ULD BE WRONG, OF URSE, BUT HISTORIANS MT ASSS WHAT THEY FD AND DRAW LOGIL NCLNS OM SOMETIM RATHER SNT RMATN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR MENT.REPLY CHANTILLYLACE JUNE 5, 2021 AT 10:16 PM THERE IS NO WAY NELSON EDDY WAS BISEXUAL – HE LOVED WOMEN. Y, HIS MOTHER LIVED WH HIM – THEY WERE VERY CLOSE AND HE FANCIALLY SUPPORTED HER AFTER HIS FATHER LEFT. NELSON EDDY WAS A TE GENTLEMAN. I’M SO SICK OF PEOPLE ALIGNG HIS MEMORY, HE WAS A WONRFUL MAN.REPLY ALAN ROYLE JUNE 6, 2021 AT 11:15 AM NUMERO SOURC SCRIBE EDDY AS BISEXUAL – NOT THAT MATTERS TO ME ANYWAY. YOU APPEAR TO NSIR BISEXUALY TO BE A ‘MALIGNG’ CLASSIFITN. I DON’T.REPLYLEAVE A REPLY CANCEL REPLYYOUR EMAIL ADDRS WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.COMMENTNAME *EMAIL *WEBSESAVE MY NAME, EMAIL, AND WEBSE THIS BROWSER FOR THE NEXT TIME I MENT. 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