MARIE McDONALD THE BODY SINGS LP CHEESECAKE RCA

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Apr 25, 2010 Sold Date

Apr 18, 2010 Start Date

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MARIE McDONALD "THE BODY SINGS" LP

RCA VICTOR LPM-1585

Vinyl In Near mint condition/ cover in NM condition with a small price sticker on it.

A Collectors item that is hard to find! The only album she has ever recorded.

Marie McDonald became famous as an actress but she had originally started her career as a singer. When the movie offers stopped, she put together her own nightclub act. The show was a huge success and she performed to sold out crowds all around the world. In 1957 Bob Hope asked Marie to join him an a USO tour. That is the same year she recorded this album, 'The Body Sings.'

Despite various personal problems, McDonald recorded this LP for RCA Victor in 1957, The Body Sings, backed by Hal Borne and His Orchestra, which consisted of twelve standard ballads. She also toured the world in a very successful nightclub act. Between 1945 and 1950 she appeared in only two films and then again not until 1958 when she was cast in a slapstick comedy opposite Jerry Lewis in The Geisha Boy. In 1963, she made her last appearance in the film, Promises! Promises!, opposite a naked Jayne Mansfield.

In 1965, McDonald was found dead of an apparent drug overdose in her Calabasas, California home. She was laid to rest in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.[7]

Three months after McDonald's death, her sixth husband Donald F. Taylor, who was a producer had occasionally acted under the name Don Taylor, committed suicide in January 1966. McDonald's three surviving children were raised by Harry Karl and his wife, Debbie Reynolds.

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