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The actress Debbie Reynolds, has died, a day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher. She was a Star of the old school.

The fame was not their goal, as Debbie Reynolds signed in 1948 at a beauty contest in Burbank, California, but a Free lunch. In addition to the Lunch, the organizers promised to all participants in a silk scarf and a blouse. So the 16 reported-year-old boy to find a girl from Texas grew up with the Radio and, more recently, for the first Time at the movies. During the show, Debbie “My Rockin’ Horse Ran Away singing,” and at the end of the day, you not only got a scarf, a blouse, and food, but also a contract with Warner Brothers, whose talent scout in the audience was sitting.

As a Hollywood Deal meant for forty years but less glamorous than wage labor, it was played, what the Studios requirements. The Warner-people paid 65 dollars a week so they played the Texas girl-next-door, with a little bit, but not too much Teenage erotic. As the obligation of delivery in the case of Warner, moved to Reynolds, had abandoned her Plan to be a teacher for a long time, to MGM. There you got 300 dollars a week, in addition, the Studio bosses were of the opinion that it would be a good partner for the Musical Superstar Gene Kelly. The Problem is that Debbie couldn’t dance. Gene Kelly personally taught it to her finally, and quilted and the two sang in 1952 with “Singin’ in the Rain”, made the twenty-year-old promptly to the Star. She danced with Gene Kelly, she danced with Fred Astaire, the choreography and Songs were inspired by a craft ethos, as it is Hollywood, until today, has never been achieved. The Timing is perfect, the saucy Smile even during the most strenuous Performance without a break, Debbie Reynolds had mastered all the rules of the game of the Golden Hollywood Era. Soon admirers such as François wrote gently Truffaut-lustful hymns on her Acting skills.

With this early fame, you put yourself a proper height, at least from the point of view of the Boulevard press. Reynolds got married in the middle of the Fifties the popular singer Eddie Fisher, the two were a dream couple for the gossip sheets, and together they had two children, Todd and Carrie Fisher. But then burned down the playboy Eddie with Elizabeth Taylor, and Debbie was suddenly not only a single mother, but also a single mother who wanted to continue to work. A double scandal in the conservative fifties. “I stand on the stage and not stay home and bake cookies,” Reynolds said proudly. An early history of Emancipation, of course, but the downside for the daughter had to feel, to Know on a Black-and-recording from the year of 1963, see. Since the seven-year-old Carrie Fisher, who is still years away from your own “Star Wars”fame, sits with a Pot haircut behind the stage of the Riviera hotel in Las Vegas on a stool. She looks the other way on the cu rtain over to her mother, which is stretched in the spotlight for the roundabout, take the hands to the audience, only a few meters away, but infinitely far.

Reynolds was also in the seventies and eighties in movies and television shows. Their Publicity had also squandered to do with her second marriage with the Shoe manufacturer Harry Karl, the be according to their own statement, then your money while gambling. It’s divorce number two followed. Reynolds, however, was resolute enough, with every scandal so open to deal that her career benefited from it. For the Comedy “These Old Broads” (2001) she decided that her rival Elizabeth Taylor to counter by playing on your side. And as the daughter of Carrie published a book with the title “Postcards on the Edge” (greetings from Hollywood) in which she describes an extremely tricky mother-daughter relationship, played in 1990, just in the filming. Carrie wrote the script.

she collected thousands of costumes, including Charlie Chaplin’s hat and the fluttering dress of Marilyn

your big time seemed to be over-compensated Reynolds with the opening of a casino hotels in Las Vegas at the beginning of the Nineties, together with her third husband, Richard Hamlett. The company as a whole ended with bankruptcy and divorce, but here Reynolds built their amazing collection of Hollywood memorabilia, which now includes a few Thousand pieces. Including: Charlie Chaplin black hat and Marilyn Monroe’s fluttering dress.

Despite the many failures and sports videos for “women of a certain age” has to keep its Status as a great Lady of the old Hollywood. She had a self-deprecating divas roles in the Sitcoms “Golden Girls,” “Roseanne” and “Will & Grace”, and together with her daughter last sat more and more often in talk shows, never age, but self-critical and curious. The personal and professional roller coaster years of welded mother and daughter, who had worked a lifetime to each other in age.

“used to tell people, this girl is the daughter of Debbie Reynolds, today it is, look, there’s the mother of Princess Leia,” said Reynolds in one of talk show appearances. On Wednesday, Debbie Reynolds, a day after their daughter and also to the effects of a stroke has died, at the age of 84 years in Los Angeles.