Singin’ in the Dirt
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Or
Debbie Reynolds, the wholesome ingénue turned dirty grandma, has died at the age of 84 of a stroke, but really a broken heart. Reynolds is best known for roles in Singin’ in the Rain, holding her own with Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor despite only being 19 years old and never having danced professionally, Tammy and the Bachelor, and her Oscar-nominated turn as The Unsinkable Molly Brown in 1964. She also had a starring role as the other woman in one of the first great sex scandals. In 1955, she and her new husband Eddie Fisher were the toast of the nation as one of Hollywood’s ‘It’ Couples, showing up at the best parties, usually with their best friends Mike Todd and Elizabeth Taylor. Todd was killed in a 1958 plane crash, and Reynolds and Fisher rushed to comfort the widow Taylor. Fisher was more comforting and started a very public affair that led to his divorce from Reynolds a year later. Taylor would marry Fisher for 5 years before she did to him with Richard Burton what he had done to Debbie. Reynold’s film career in light, bouncy comedies and musicals continued into the mid-1960s and was the voice of the plucky spider in Charlotte’s Web as her career hit the rocks. She took to the stage, earning a 1973 Tony nomination for the revival of Irene, then she became more famous as Princess Leia’s mother, and Carrie Fisher exposed their fraught relationship in Postcards from the Edge. Reynolds enjoyed a bit of a resurgence in the 1990s, with a Golden Globe nomination as Albert Brooks’ professionally frustrated mother in Mother, as Kevin Kline’s understanding mother in In & Out, and as Grace Adler’s ebullient show-tunes singing mother in Will & Grace, for which she scored an Emmy nomination. She took on the role of chronicler of the Golden Age, amassing a collection of Hollywood costumes and memorabilia that sold for more than $25 million when no museum for it could be established. Reynolds also waited for her contemporaries to die, then dished in a tell-all memoir about getting Cary Grant to tell her daughter to stop doing LSD, and Bob Fosse gone commando and pressing all that jazz against her while teaching her steps on stage, and two young men reaching under Shelley Winters’ dress in the middle of a party to give her a Poseidon Adventure.
Dying in the Pain
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Sinkable
Debbie Reynolds, the wholesome ingénue turned dirty grandma, has died at the age of 84 of a stroke, but really a broken heart. Reynolds is best known for roles in Singin’ in the Rain, holding her own with Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor despite only being 19 years old and never having danced professionally, Tammy and the Bachelor, and her Oscar-nominated turn as The Unsinkable Molly Brown in 1964. She also had a starring role as the other woman in one of the first great sex scandals. In 1955, she and her new husband Eddie Fisher were the toast of the nation as one of Hollywood’s ‘It’ Couples, showing up at the best parties, usually with their best friends Mike Todd and Elizabeth Taylor. Todd was killed in a 1958 plane crash, and Reynolds and Fisher rushed to comfort the widow Taylor. Fisher was more comforting and started a very public affair that led to his divorce from Reynolds a year later. Taylor would marry Fisher for 5 years before she did to him with Richard Burton what he had done to Debbie. Reynold’s film career in light, bouncy comedies and musicals continued into the mid-1960s and was the voice of the plucky spider in Charlotte’s Web as her career hit the rocks. She took to the stage, earning a 1973 Tony nomination for the revival of Irene, then she became more famous as Princess Leia’s mother, and Carrie Fisher exposed their fraught relationship in Postcards from the Edge. Reynolds enjoyed a bit of a resurgence in the 1990s, with a Golden Globe nomination as Albert Brooks’ professionally frustrated mother in Mother, as Kevin Kline’s understanding mother in In & Out, and as Grace Adler’s ebullient show-tunes singing mother in Will & Grace, for which she scored an Emmy nomination. She took on the role of chronicler of the Golden Age, amassing a collection of Hollywood costumes and memorabilia that sold for more than $25 million when no museum for it could be established. Reynolds also waited for her contemporaries to die, then dished in a tell-all memoir about getting Cary Grant to tell her daughter to stop doing LSD, and Bob Fosse gone commando and pressing all that jazz against her while teaching her steps on stage, and two young men reaching under Shelley Winters’ dress in the middle of a party to give her a Poseidon Adventure.
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