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From the Archives: Nelson Eddy Dies Following Stroke on Nightclub Stage

Nelson Eddy, a voice from the past, died Monday in Miami Beach after suffering a stroke.

A song on his lips, the 65-year-old baritone who sang to yesterday’s lovers collapsed on the stage of a nightclub.

Eddy was stricken Sunday night while performing at the Sans Souci Hotel. He had just finished one song and had started another when his voice failed.

“Will you bear with me a minute?” the wavy-haired singer asked his audience. “I can’t seem to get the words out.”

A puzzled look on his face, he turned to his pianist and said: “Would you play ‘Dardanella’? Maybe I’ll get the words back.”

Then he said: “My face is getting numb. Is there a doctor here?”

As his legs became rubbery, he was caught by others on the stage as he started to fall.

Death Due to Stroke

Eddy was taken to a hospital, where he died Monday morning. Doctors said death was due to a stroke, caused by a blood clot on the brain.

Private funeral services will be conducted Thursday at Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, under the direction o

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The only career Nelson Eddy ever considered was singing. His parents, Isabel (Kendrick) and William Darius Eddy, were singers, his grandparents were musicians. Unable to afford a teacher, he learned by imitating opera recordings. At age 14 he worked as a telephone operator in a Philadelphia iron foundry. He sold newspaper advertising and performed in amateur musicals. Dr. Edouard Lippe coached him and loaned him the money to study in Dresden and Paris. He gave his first concert recital in 1928 in Philadelphia. In 1933 he did 18 encores for an audience that included an assistant to MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer, who signed him to a seven-year contract. After MGM acting lessons and initial trials, his first real success came as the Yankee scout to Jeanette MacDonald's French princess in Naughty Marietta (1935), a huge box-office success made on a small budget. Eddy and MacDonald were paired twice more (Rose-Marie (1936), Maytime (1937)) when metropolitan Opera star Grace Moore was unavailable; they became an institution. Their last work together was in 1942. Critics nearly a

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Nelson Eddy

American actor and singer (1901–1967)

Nelson Ackerman Eddy (June 29, 1901 – March 6, 1967) was an American actor and baritone singer who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred with sopranoJeanette MacDonald. He was one of the first "crossover" stars, a superstar appealing both to shrieking bobby soxers and opera purists, and in his heyday, he was the highest paid singer in the world.

During his 40-year career, he earned three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (one each for film, recording, and radio), left his footprints in the wet concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, earned three gold records, and was invited to sing at the third inauguration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941.^[2] He also introduced millions of young Americans to classical music and inspired many of them to pursue a musical career.

Early life

Eddy was born