The actress Marie Francis Reynolds, better known by her stage name Debbie Reynolds, has died of a stroke aged 84, following the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher. Reynolds won the Miss Burbank contest as a teenager, leading to her being picked up by Warner Bros. Studio boss Jack Warner renamed her Debbie, much to her dislike. Unfortunately, her talent there was ill-used, as she mostly carried out office work and conducted studio tours, only getting a couple of bit acting parts. When her contract expired, MGM picked her up and put her to good use in a small role in Three Little Words playing singer Helen Kane, who curiously sang her most famous song, I Wanna Be Loved By You, to Reynolds' miming. Nevertheless, she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer. The studio insisted she take the lead in Singin' in the Rain, for which Gene Kelly gave her intense dance training. After a successful career in films such as How the West Was Won and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, the latter getting her Oscar nominated, she continued to act, mostly on television and in voice roles such as Charlotte's Web, Kiki's Delivery Service, Rugrats, Kim Possible and Family Guy. In 1979, she opened a dance studio in Hollywood and released a line of exercise videos for older women throughout the Eighties. She bought a Vegas hotel and casino in 1992, renaming it the Debbie Reynolds Hollywood Hotel. Unfortunately, this made her bankrupt five years later. She was an avid collector and preservationist of movie memorabilia, notably buying thousands of items in the 1970 MGM auction. After struggling to get them displayed in a museum, she displayed them in the hotel before moving the collection to Los Angeles. It was to become the centrepiece in the Belle Island Village attraction in Tennessee, but the developer went bankrupt, causing her museum to go the same way in 2009. Over the next five years, she was forced to sell off her collection in a number of auctions. Her first marriage to singer Eddie Fisher, Carrie's father, ended when he had an affair with Elizabeth Taylor in 1959, causing a huge public scandal. Taylor and Reynolds only made up in 2011 when coincidentally sailing on Queen Elizabeth at the same time. Reynolds approached Taylor and they ended the feud. Taylor died a few weeks later. Her relationship with Carrie was known to be stormy, leading to Fisher writing Postcards from the Edge about an actress who is a recovering drug addict and her relationship with her overbearing mother, clearly based on her own experiences. The death of her daughter was too stressful for her. Whilst planning the funeral, she had difficulty breathing and was rushed to hospital. She died following a stroke. Her son, Todd Fisher, said that she wanted to be with Carrie. http://variety.com/2016/film/news/debbie-reynolds-dead-dies-carrie-fisher-mother-1201949432/ RIP Debbie. Thanks for some great parts and preserving so much of Hollywood's history at a time when the industry didn't think to do so.
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You have no idea how many people haven't been mentioned this year that were probably of significance to a lot of us!
