Debbie Reynolds Wiki, Biography, Age, Spouse, Height, Net Worth, Fast Facts

Debbie Reynolds Wiki, Biography

Reynolds was born on April 1, 1932, in El Paso, Texas, to Maxene N. “Minnie” Harman and Raymond Francis “Ray” Reynolds, a carpenter who worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad.^[10] She was of Scotch-Irish and English ancestry^[11] and was raised in a strict Nazarene church of her domineering mother.^[12] She had an older brother, William, who was two years her senior.^[13] Reynolds was a Girl Scout, once saying that she wanted to die as the world’s oldest living Girl Scout.^[14] Reynolds was also a member of The International Order of Job’s Daughters.

Marriages and later life

Reynolds was married three times. Her first marriage was to singer Eddie Fisher in 1955.^[65] They became the parents of Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher. The couple divorced in 1959 when it was revealed shortly after the death of Elizabeth Taylor’s husband Mike Todd that Fisher had been having an affair with her; Taylor and Reynolds were good friends at the time. The Eddie Fisher – Elizabeth Taylor affair was a great public scandal, which led to the cancellation of Eddie Fisher’s television show.^[66]

In 2011, Reynolds was on The Oprah Winfrey Show just weeks before Elizabeth Taylor’s death. She explained that Taylor and she happened to be traveling at the same time on the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth some time in the late 1960s or early 1970s, when they reconciled.^[67] Reynolds sent a note to Taylor’s room, and Taylor sent a note in reply asking to have dinner with Reynolds and end their feud. As Reynolds described it, “we had a wonderful evening with a lot of laughs.”^[68] In 1972, she noted the bright side of the divorce and her remarriage:

Now in retrospect, though it was not my will, I think it probably was the best thing that ever happened to me. He did give me two great children and for that I will ever be grateful. Our door is always open to him. I believe in peaceful coexistence and being friends with the father of your children.^[29]

Reynolds’ second marriage, to millionaire businessman Harry Karl, lasted from 1960 to 1973.^[67] For a period during the 1960s, she stopped working at the studio on Friday afternoons to attend Girl Scout meetings, since she was the leader of the Girl Scout Troop of which her 13-year-old daughter Carrie and her stepdaughter Tina Karl, also 13, were members.^[69] Reynolds later found herself in financial difficulty because of Karl’s gambling and bad investments.^[1] Reynolds’ third marriage was to real estate developer Richard Hamlett from 1984 to 1996.

In 2011, Reynolds stepped down after 56 years of involvement in The Thalians,^[70] a charitable organization devoted to children and adults with mental-health issues.

Reynolds was hospitalized in October 2012 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles due to an adverse reaction to medication. She cancelled appearances and concert engagements for the next three months.

Death and legacy

On December 23, 2016, Reynolds’ daughter, actress and writer Carrie Fisher, suffered a medical emergency on a transatlantic flight from London to Los Angeles, and died on December 27, 2016, at the age of 60 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.^[72] The following day, December 28, Reynolds was taken by ambulance to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, after suffering a “severe stroke”, according to her son.^[73] Later that afternoon, Reynolds was pronounced dead in the hospital; she was 84 years old.^[74][75][76] On January 9, 2017, her cause of death was determined to be an intracerebral hemorrhage, with hypertension a contributing factor.^[77]

Todd Fisher later said that Reynolds had been seriously affected by her daughter’s death, and that her grief was partially responsible for her stroke, noting that his mother had stated, “I want to be with Carrie”, shortly before she died.^[78][79][80] During an interview for the December 30, 2016 airing of the ABC-TV program 20/20, Todd Fisher elaborated on this, saying that his mother had joined his sister in death because Reynolds “didn’t want to leave Carrie and did not want her to be alone”.^[81] He added, “she didn’t die of a broken heart” as some news reports had implied, but rather “just left to be with Carrie”.^[82]

Reynolds was entombed, while her daughter was cremated. A portion of Carrie Fisher’s ashes was laid to rest beside Reynolds’ crypt at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills during a larger joint memorial service held on March 25,^[83][84] while the remainder of Fisher’s ashes are held in a giant, novelty Prozac pill.

Awards and honors

Reynolds was the 1955 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year.^[86] Her footprints and handprints are preserved at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. She also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6654 Hollywood Boulevard, for live performance and a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars dedicated to her.^[87] In keeping with the celebrity tradition of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival of Winchester, Virginia, Reynolds was honored as the Grand Marshal of the 2011 ABF that took place from April 26 to May 1, 2011.

On November 4, 2006, Reynolds received the Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award from Chapman University (Orange, California).^[89][90] On May 17, 2007, she was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Nevada, Reno, where she had contributed for many years to the film studies program.

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