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Debbie Reynolds (born April 1, 1932) is an American actress and singer.

Singer and actor

Debbie Reynolds was born as Mary Frances Reynolds in El Paso, Texas, the second child of Raymond Francis Reynolds (1903-1986) and Maxine N. Harman (1913-1999).

Her family moved to Burbank, California, in 1939. At 16, Reynolds won the Miss Burbank Beauty Contest, a motion picture contract with Warner Brothers, and a new first name.

Reynolds appeared in small roles in two Warner Brothers movies and signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Cast in Three Little Words, starring Fred Astaire and Red Skelton, Reynolds second MGM film appearance in Two Weeks With Love, received strong notices. She then appeared in Mr. Imperium opposite Lana Turner.

Over Gene Kelly's initial opposition and her lack of ability tap dance, Reynolds played the female lead in Singin' in the Rain. Reynolds hard work paid off in a well-received performance with Kelly and Donald O'Connor.

Reynolds went on to star in numerous motion pictures, record hit songs (most notably "Tammy" from her 1957 film Tammy and the Bachelor) and headline major Las Vegas showrooms. Her starring role in The Unsinkable Molly Brown
(1964) led to an Oscar nomination, but she lost to Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins.

As of 2005 she was still making appearances in film and television, one of the few actors from MGM's "golden age of film" (including Anita Page, Mickey Rooney, Lauren Bacall, Cyd Charisse, Margaret O'Brien, Jane Powell, Rita Moreno, Leslie Caron, Dean Stockwell, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Russ Tamblyn and June Lockhart) who was still active in filmmaking. From 1999 to the present, she has played the recurring role of Grace's mother Bobbi Adler on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace.

Reynolds has been active in the Thalians Club and has also displayed her collection of movie memorabilia, first in a Las Vegas resort during the 1990s and later in a museum close to the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, California. She has auctioned off some of these items several times.

Personal life

Reynolds has been married three times:

Eddie Fisher (married 1955, divorced 1959)
Harry Karl (married 1960, divorced 1973)
Richard Hamlett (married 1984, divorced 1994)

She has two children, Carrie Fisher (born 1956, of Star Wars fame) and Todd Fisher (born 1958).

In an enormous scandal, Reynolds' first husband, singer, Eddie Fisher, left her to marry the recently-widowed Elizabeth Taylor. Although Reynolds and Taylor were close friends and former child actresses at MGM, Reynolds publicly played the role of scorned wife to the hilt and Taylor played the femme fatale. While both intensely ambitious actresses received enormous publicity as a result, Taylor soon dropped Fisher when she met and married Richard Burton.

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