Word: nelsoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most widely popular singer of classical songs in the U.S. is grey-haired, beaming, 195-lb. Nelson Eddy. The 43-year-old baritone is one of the three most popular singers, in any league.* Last week he was well away in a new show as master of ceremonies and star of The Electric Hour (CBS, Wed., 10:30 p.m. E.W.T.). His job: to make listeners feel happy about the 160 electric-light & power companies which sponsor him. His method: songs and banter...
...devotion of Nelson Eddy's millions of fans is so fanatical that his fan mail (85% from girls and women) is extraordinary even by radio-cinema standards. Eddy's concert tours sell out way in advance, and he averages $15,000 a week from them. His radio salary is $5,000 a week, not including guest appearances. Another $60,000 to $80,000 a year accrues from his phonograph recordings, at least four of which have sold over a million discs apiece. With his movie income, his total earnings to date are about...
...this is a tribute to a great natural voice, a handsome face, and the exceedingly boyish Eddy personality. Women have been carried swooning from Nelson Eddy's performances. Lacking anything like the artistry of an Antonio Scotti, Eddy has been content to let nature take its devastating course...
Like many another successful man, Nelson Eddy thinks he was better fitted for another calling. Eddy's conviction, shared by almost no one, is that he is a born comedian. His producers discreetly shelve scripts he painfully prepares for them. He idolizes the comic ease of Bing Crosby. His associates readily forgive Eddy such blatant clowning as hiding from the director under Jeanette MacDonald's hoop skirts. Frugal, suspicious, Eddy is nevertheless as honestly congenial as a puppy...
This friendliness carries over into Nelson Eddy's private life. He and pretty Mrs. Eddy (46), ex-wife of Hollywood Producer Sidney Franklin, enjoy their Brentwood home. Eddy works in the garden, cleans the chicken pens, cooks the chickens, shoots rats with an air rifle. Mrs. Eddy has a son, now in the Army, by her first husband; Nelson Eddy is bitterly disappointed that he has no children...