Hollywood Debbie Reynolds, which with the talent of the singing and dancing got into the heart of millions of viewers of cinema in the world with musicals such as “Singin’ in the Rain”, died yesterday at the age of 84, announced her son.
The Reynolds, one of the παλαίμαχες and most favourite actors of Hollywood, he died a few hours after the hasty introduction of to a hospital in Los Angeles, after suffering a stroke, said her son, Todd Fisher. Her death occurred just one day after the death of her daughter, actress Carrie Fisher from a heart attack.
The Reynolds, who gained fame after the “Singin’ in the Rain”, appeared in dozens of films with roles next to Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Donald O’connor, Fred Astaire and Dick Van Dyke. Was nominated for an Oscar for her role in the movie, 1964’s “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”.
At the height of her career, Reynolds became involved in a scandal when her husband, singer Eddie Fisher, has gained a relationship with the actress Elizabeth Taylor. The Reynolds and Fisher divorced in 1959, and he married Taylor. Later, Reynolds and Taylor, which was separated by Fisher, reconciled and appeared together in the film shot specifically for the tv, “These Old Broads” written by Carrie Fisher.
Between the filming of many movies in which he played the lead roles, and when they decreased the interests in films, participated in television shows, and numerous television series, gave performances at a nightclub, and in 1968 she presented her own show on NBC, “The Debbie Reynolds Show”.
The last great film in which she starred was in the 1970s, “what’s the Matter with Helen?””, while he had small roles in subsequent movies.
He married the second time in the entrepreneur’s shoes, Harry Carl, divorcing him in the early 70’s after he lost a large proportion of the property of gambling. In 1984 she married the real estate investor Richard Hamlets and bought a hotel and casino in Las Vegas, where he gave performances. The marriage ended in the midst of the economic collapse of the project and the Reynolds filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from creditors.
“There are good men, like my father and my son Todd, but I happened to marry idiots, this is why I quit many years ago. I have terrible taste in men,” he said in a local English newspaper, the Yorkshire Post, 2010.
The 1988 released her autobiography, Debbie: My Life.
Died the legendary actor of “Singin’ in the Rain” Debbie Reynolds
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