Jeanette MacDonald
American singer and actress (1903-1965) · United States · On the map · Musicians · Died at 61
Jeanette Anna MacDonald was an American soprano and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy. During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture Oscars, and recorded extensively, earning three gold records.
Jeanette MacDonald is read about 248 times a day, in 34 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?People around Jeanette
Ernst Lubitsch Directed The Love Parade and Monte Carlo
Robert Z. Leonard Directed Naughty Marietta and Sweethearts
W. S. Van Dyke Directed San Francisco and Naughty Marietta
Nelson Eddy Also in Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie and Maytime
Herbert Stothart Wrote The Merry Widow, Sweethearts and New Moon
Hunt Stromberg Produced Naughty Marietta and Sweethearts
Lotte Lehmann Taught Jeanette
Herman Bing Also in The Merry Widow, Rose Marie and Maytime
Maurice Chevalier Also in The Love Parade and One Hour with You
George Cukor Directed One Hour with You (1932)
Frank Morgan Also in Naughty Marietta (1935)
Rolfe Sedan Also in The Merry Widow and Love Me Tonight- Victor Saville Produced Bitter Sweet and Smilin' Through
Gino Corrado Also in The Merry Widow and New Moon- Bernard H. Hyman Produced San Francisco (1936)
Reginald Owen Also in Rose Marie, I Married an Angel and Cairo
Roland Young Also in Annabelle's Affairs (1931)
George Barbier Also in The Merry Widow and Sweethearts
William K. Howard Directed The Cat and the Fiddle (1933)
Douglass Dumbrille Also in Naughty Marietta and The Firefly
Frances Goodrich Wrote Rose Marie and The Firefly
Edgar Norton Also in Love Me Tonight and Monte Carlo
Robert Greig Also in Love Me Tonight and Rose Marie
Ernest Vajda Wrote The Love Parade and The Merry Widow
Jeanette MacDonaldPartners
Is this everyone?
Only relatives with a profile here are drawn, so a family can be larger than this. A line here can also be wrong.
Correct this familyAlso in Deutsch
Media & music
Photos 12
MacDonald backstage in a costume for the Broadway show Sunny Days (1928)
MacDonald with Maurice Chevalier in a promotional still for The Merry Widow (1934)
From the trailer for The Merry Widow (1934)
MacDonald and Allan Jones behind the scenes of The Firefly (1937)
Eddy and MacDonald from the trailer for Sweethearts (1938)
From the trailer for The Sun Comes Up (1949)
MacDonald dressed in an American Women's Voluntary Services uniform (c. 1942)Awards
About this person
She later appeared in opera, concerts, radio, and television. MacDonald was one of the most influential sopranos of the 20th century, introducing opera to film-going audiences and inspiring a generation of singers.
