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sharon rich book jacket photo los angeles , california 11 june 1953 sharon_rich . jpg sharon rich
 sharon rich author
sharon rich

sharon rich is an author and film historian , best known for the biography sweethearts about 1930s singing stars jeanette macdonald and nelson eddy .
she was close friends for many years with jeanette 's older sister , actress blossom rock -lrb- aka marie blake -rrb- .
along with interviewing hundreds of people , rich had access to many collections of private letters , eddy 's personal scrapbooks , diary entries , fbi files and macdonald 's unpublished autobiography .
as follow up documentation to `` sweethearts '' , rich has written several additional books and edited and written over seventy magazine articles .
in 1995 she was awarded a dame of merit by the knights of malta for her contribution to history and literature .
`` sweethearts '' was published in hardcover in 1994 and was a selection of the entertainment book club .
the book release party was held at the american film institute in washington , d.c. where rich was a guest speaker .
`` sweethearts '' was updated in 2001 and again in 2014 .
in june 2014 the `` sweethearts '' 20th anniversary edition was # 14 on amazon 's best seller list .
she is the grandniece of hollywood composer and bandleader fred rich .
