A day after her daughter and star Carrie Fisher died, Hollywood royalty Debie Reynolds passed away. The Singin’ in the Rain star shot to fame early, and remained there for a long time.
Actress Debbie Reynolds, the star of the 1952 classic “Singin’ in the Rain,” passed away. She was 84.
Reynolds enjoyed the very heights of show business success and endured the depths of personal tragedy and betrayal.
She lost one husband to Elizabeth Taylor and two other husbands plundered her for millions. In this picture, she appears at the Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremonies in Los Angeles.
Debbie Reynolds poses on a grand piano at a New York restaurant. In her screen career, Reynolds was a superstar early in life.
After two minor roles at Warner Bros. and three supporting roles at MGM, studio boss Louis B. Mayer cast her in Singin’ in the Rain, despite Gene Kelly’s objections. Reynolds entertains at the 8th Army headquarters in Seoul, South Korea.
She was 19 with little dance experience, and she would be appearing with two of the screen’s greatest dancers, Donald O’Connor and Kelly, who also co-directed.
The 1964 Meredith Willson musical, with Molly’s defiant song “I Ain’t Down Yet,” brought Reynolds her only Academy Award nomination.
She starred with Glenn Ford in The Gazebo, Tony Curtis in The Rat Race, Fred Astaire in The Pleasure of His Company, Andy Griffith in The Second Time Around, with the all-star cast in How the West Was Won and Ricardo Montalban in The Singing Nun.