1-629-857 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Jeanette MacDonald (1903-1965), American singer and actress, c1930s-c1940s. Signed photograph. In 1929 Ernst Lubitsch saw MacDonald and cast her opposite Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade. Unfortunately for MacDonald, musicals went into decline and in 1931 Paramount dropped her. It was through MGM that she paired up with her most-famous acting partner, Nelson Eddy, with whom she made eight films. The couple were forever known as America's Singing Sweethearts.