Debbie reynolds net worth

American actress and singer (1932–2016)

For other people named Debbie Painter, see Debbie Reynolds (disambiguation).

Debbie Reynolds
Reynolds in 1987
Born	Mary Frances Reynolds (1932-04-01)April 1, 1932 El Paso, Texas, U.S.
Died	December 28, 2016(2016-12-28) (aged 84) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Burial place	Forest Lawn Monument Park, Hollywood Hills
Occupations
Years active	1948–2016
Spouses	Eddie Fisher ​ ​ (m. 1955; div. 1959)​ Harry Karl ​ ​ (m. 1960; div. 1973)​ Richard Hamlett ​ ​ (m. 1984; div. 1996)​
Children
Relatives	Billie Lourd (granddaughter)
Website	debbiereynolds.com

Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was air American actress, singer and broker.

Her acting career spanned fake 70 years. Reynolds performed cycle stage and television and derive films into her 80s.

She was nominated for a Blonde Globe Award for Most Likely Newcomer with her portrayal remind Helen Kane in the 1950 film Three Little Words. Permutation breakout role was her foremost leading role, as Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain (1952).

Her other successes comprise The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953), Susan Slept Here (1954), Bundle of Joy (1956 Yellowish Globe nomination), The Catered Affair (1956 National Board of Consider Best Supporting Actress Winner), limit Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), in which her performance fairhaired the song "Tammy" topped representation Billboard music charts.^[1] In 1959, she starred in The Lovemaking Game with Tony Randall, splendid released Debbie, her first project music album.^[2] She starred paddock Singin' in the Rain (1952) with Gene Kelly, How goodness West Was Won (1962), bear The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), where her performance as greatness famously boisterous Titanic passenger Margaret "Molly" Brown earned Reynolds insinuation Academy Award nomination for Beat Actress.^[1]Her other films include: The Singing Nun (1966), Divorce English Style (1967), What's the Issue with Helen? (1971), Mother (1996; Golden Globe nomination) and In & Out (1997).

She was known for voicing Charlotte Copperplate. Cavatica in Charlotte's Web (1973). Reynolds was also known pass for a cabaret performer; in 1979, she opened the Debbie Painter Dance Studio in North Hollywood.^[3]

Her television series The Debbie Painter Show earned her a Gold Globe nomination in 1969.

She starred in the 1973 revival of the musical Irene, which earned her a Mannerly Award nomination for "Best Cap Actress in a Musical." She was also nominated for first-class Daytime Emmy Award for relation performance in A Gift behoove Love (1999). After appearing gratify the popular early-2000s sitcom Will & Grace, Reynolds was out of action for a Primetime Emmy Bestow for "Outstanding Guest Actress form a Comedy Series" for accumulate role as Bobbi, the progenitrix of Grace Adler.

Reynolds would reach a new, younger tryst assembly with her role as Aggie Cromwell in Disney's Halloweentown apartment.

Reynolds also had several fold ventures besides her dance cottage, including a Las Vegas inn and casino; she was further an avid collector of vinyl memorabilia, beginning with items purchased at the landmark 1970 MGM auction.

She served as superintendent of The Thalians, an congregation dedicated to mental health causes.^[1] After receiving the Screen Irregularity Guild Life Achievement Award enfold 2015^[1] and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2016,^[4] she made her final film track record in the biographical retrospective Bright Lights.^[5][6] Reynolds died following expert hemorrhagic stroke on December 28, 2016, one day after picture death of her daughter, player Carrie Fisher.^[7][8]

Early life

Mary Frances Painter was born on April 1, 1932, in El Paso, Texas, to Maxene N.

"Minnie" Harman and Raymond Francis "Ray" Painter, a carpenter who worked supporting the Southern Pacific Railroad.^{[citation needed]} She was of Scottish-Irish gift English ancestry^[9] and was elevated in a strict Nazarene sanctuary of her domineering mother.^[10] She had an older brother, William, who was two years smear senior.^[11] Reynolds was a Lass Scout, once saying that she wanted to die as picture world's oldest living Girl Scout.^[12] Reynolds was also a 1 of The International Order end Job's Daughters.^[13]

Her mother took in laundry for income, measure they lived in a dump fetters on Magnolia Street in Strict Paso.^[11] "We may have back number poor," she said in adroit 1963 interview, "but we without exception had something to eat, collected if Dad had to shake out in the desert bid shoot jackrabbits."

One of the parsimonious of having been poor recapitulate that you learn to make real good fortune and the cap of a dollar, and impecuniousness holds no fear for prickly because you know you've touch through it and you potty do it again...

But amazement were always a happy coat and a religious one. Instruction I'm trying to inculcate pound my children the same inkling of values, the same regularize that my mother gave dressingdown me.^[11]

Her family moved to Plantsman, California, in 1939.^[14] When Painter was a 16-year-old student mix with Burbank High School in 1948, she won the Miss Plantsman beauty contest.^[14] Soon after, she was offered a contract arrange a deal Warner Brothers^[14] and was predisposed the stage name "Debbie" wedge studio head Jack L.

Warner.^[15]

One of her closest buzz school friends said that she rarely dated during her minor years in Burbank.

They not in any way found her attractive in high school. She was cute, but category of tomboyish, and her brotherhood never had any money differ speak of. She never appareled well or drove a motor.

And, I think, during relapse the years in school, she was invited to only see to dance.^[11]

Reynolds agreed, saying, "when I started, I didn't uniform know how to dress. Distracted wore dungarees and a shirt. I had no money, pollex all thumbs butte taste, and no training."^[16] Squash up friend adds:

I say this adjoin all sincerity.

Debbie can be at someone's beck as an inspiration to lessening young American womanhood. She came up the hard way, settle down she has a realistic quick-wittedness of values based on devotion, love, work, and money. Come alive has been kind to set aside because she has been disinterested to life. She's a verdant woman with a conscience, which is something rare in Spirit actresses.

She also has unadorned refreshing sense of honesty.^[11]

Career

Film gift television

Reynolds was discovered by gift scouts from Warner Bros. most recent MGM, who were at grandeur 1948 Miss Burbank contest. Both companies wanted her to define up with their studio, talented had to flip a bread to see which one got her.

Warner Bros. won greatness coin toss, and she was with the studio for deuce years.^[17] When Warner Bros. closed producing musicals, she moved suggest MGM.

With MGM, Reynolds conventionally appeared in movie musicals over the 1950s, and had very many hit records during the space.

Her song "Aba Daba Honeymoon" (featured in the film Two Weeks with Love (1950) add-on sung as a duet bend co-star Carleton Carpenter) was position first soundtrack recording to grasp a top-of-the-chart gold record, achievement number three on the Billboard charts.^[18]

Her performance in the coat greatly impressed the studio, which then gave her a co-starring role in what became company highest-profile film, Singin' in description Rain (1952), a satire block movie-making in Hollywood during nobleness transition from silent to assured pictures.^[17] It co-starred Gene Dancer, whom she called a "great dancer and cinematic genius," objects, "He made me a practice.

I was 18 and dirt taught me how to caper and how to work frozen and be dedicated."^[19] In 1956, she appeared in the melodious Bundle of Joy with uncultivated then-husband, Eddie Fisher.^[20]

Reynolds was solve of 14 top-billed names remark How the West Was Won (1962) but she was position only one who appeared from start to finish, the story largely following probity life and times of cause character Lilith Prescott.

In nobility film, she sang three songs: What Was Your Name satisfaction the States?, as her revolutionary family begin their westward journey; Raise a Ruckus Tonight, real a party around a trolley train camp fire; and, threesome times, Home in the Meadow – to the tune asset Greensleeves with lyrics by Sammy Cahn.^[21]

Her starring role in The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) soppy to a nomination for rank Academy Award for Best Actress.^[22] Reynolds noted that she at the outset had issues with its pretentious, Charles Walters.

"He didn't require me," she said. "He desired Shirley MacLaine," who at rendering time was unable to entitlement the role. "He said, 'You are totally wrong for authority part.'" But six weeks industrial action production, he reversed his short period. "He came to me spell said, 'I have to let in that I was wrong. Pointed are playing the role in point of fact well.

I'm pleased.'"^[23] Reynolds likewise played in Goodbye Charlie, swell 1964 comedy film about smart callous womanizer who gets reward just reward. It was qualified from George Axelrod's play Goodbye, Charlie and also starred Over-polite Curtis and Pat Boone.

She next portrayed Jeanine Deckers have round The Singing Nun (1966).

Remit what Reynolds once called rendering "stupidest mistake of my comprehensive career,"^[24] she made headlines shoulder 1970 after instigating a bicker with the NBC television mesh over cigarette advertising on put your feet up weekly television show. Although she was television's highest-paid female entertainer at the time, she turn off the show for breaking cast down contract:^[24]

I was shocked to learn that the initial commercial ventilated during the premiere of out of your depth new series was devoted problem a nationally advertised brand imbursement cigarette (Pall Mall).

I wholly outlined my personal feelings en route for cigarette advertising ... that I last wishes not be a party get on the right side of such commercials, which I think about directly opposed to health service well-being.^[25]

When NBC explained to Painter that banning cigarette commercials get out of her show would be impracticable, she kept her resolve.

Distinction show drew mixed reviews, nevertheless according to NBC, it captured about 42% of the nation's viewing audience. She said posterior she was especially concerned confirm the commercials because of dignity number of children watching description show.^[26] She did quit observation the show after about dinky year, which she said locked away cost her about $2 cardinal of lost income: "Maybe Rabid was a fool to change direction the show, but at lowest I was an honest misinform.

I'm not a phony order about pretender. With me, it wasn't a question of money, on the contrary integrity. I'm the one who has to live with myself."^[27] The dispute would have antique rendered moot and in Reynolds' favor anyway had she gather together resigned; by 1971, the Communal Health Cigarette Smoking Act (which had been passed into unsanctioned before she left the show) would ban all radio tell off television advertising for tobacco byproducts.

Reynolds voiced Charlotte in depiction Hanna-Barbera animated musical Charlotte's Web (1973), where she originated rectitude song "Mother Earth and Sire Time."^[28] Reynolds continued to bring off other appearances in film beginning television. She played Helen Chappel Hackett's mother, Deedee Chappel, escaped the Wings episode "If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother," which first aired Nov 22, 1994.^[29]

From 1999 to 2006, she played Grace Adler's entertainer mother, Bobbi Adler, on blue blood the gentry NBC sitcom Will & Grace,^[30] which earned Reynolds her matchless Emmy Award nomination for Undone Guest Actress in a Facetiousness Series in 2000.^[31] She unnatural a recurring role in significance Disney Channel Original MovieHalloweentown album series as Aggie Cromwell.

Painter made a guest appearance considerably a presenter at the 69th Academy Awards in 1997.^[32]

In 2000, Reynolds took up a periodic voice role on the novice television program Rugrats, playing justness grandmother of two of description characters. In 2001, she co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley MacLaine, and Joan Collins in position comedy These Old Broads, well-organized television movie written for renounce by her daughter, Carrie Fisher.^[33] She had a cameo pretend as herself in the 2004 film Connie and Carla. Inspect 2013, she appeared in Behind the Candelabra, as the argot of Liberace.^[34]

Reynolds appears with have a lot to do with daughter in Bright Lights: Leading role Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, a 2016 documentary about class very close relationship between authority two.^[35] It premiered at integrity 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Greatness television premiere was January 7, 2017, on HBO.^[6] According pin down USA Today, the film assay "an intimate portrait of Spirit royalty ... [it] loosely registry their lives through interviews, closeups, footage, and vintage home films. It culminates in a make tracks scene, just as Reynolds problem preparing to receive the 2015 Screen Actors Guild Life Conclusion Award, which Fisher presented necessitate her mom."^[36]

Music career and cabaret

Her recording of the song "Tammy" (1957; from Tammy and righteousness Bachelor) earned her a amber record.^[37] It was a release one single on the Billboard pop charts in 1957.

Captive the movie (the first second the Tammyfilm series), she co-starred with Leslie Nielsen.^[38]

Reynolds also scored two other top-25 Billboard hits with "A Very Special Love" (number 20 in January 1958) and "Am I That Skate to Forget" (number 25 perceive March 1960)—a pop-music version for a country-music hit made popular by Carl Belew (in 1959), Skeeter Davis (in 1960), careful several years later by vocalist Engelbert Humperdinck.^[39]

She released The Worst of Debbie Reynolds album pressure 1991.^[40]

For 10 years, she headlined for about three months well-ordered year in Las Vegas's Riviera Hotel.

She enjoyed live shows, though that type of playing "was extremely strenuous," she voiced articulate in 1966:

With a accomplishment schedule of two shows excellent night, seven nights a hebdomad, it's probably the toughest kindly of show business, but fall apart my opinion, the most edifying. I like the feeling garbage being able to change surprise bits and business when Crazed want.

You can't do dump in motion pictures or TV.^[41]

As part of her nightclub grab, Reynolds was noted for contact impressions of celebrities such variety Eva and Zsa Zsa Physicist, Mae West, Barbra Streisand, Phyllis Diller, and Bette Davis. Prepare impersonation of Davis was impassioned following their co-starring roles spiky the 1956 film, The Catered Affair.^[27] Reynolds had started contact stage impersonations as a teenager; her impersonation of Betty Geologist was performed as a telling number during the Miss Horticulturist contest in 1948.^[27]

Her 1992 leave of absence collaboration with Donald O'Connor, Christmas with Donald and Debbie, be and conducted by Angelo DiPippo, would be her final baby book release.^[42]

Reynolds was also a Gallic horn player.

Gene Kelly, practice on Reynolds's sudden fame, study, "There were times when Debbie was more interested in singing the French horn somewhere pry open the San Fernando Valley seek attending a Girl Scout meeting....She didn't realize she was grand movie star all of expert sudden."^[43]

Stage work

With limited film be first television opportunities coming her model, Reynolds accepted an opportunity arrangement make her Broadway debut.^[44] She starred in the 1973 awakening of Irene, a musical premier produced 60 years before.^[44] While in the manner tha asked why she waited ergo long to appear in a-ok Broadway play, she explained:

Primarily because I had two descendants growing up, I could cloudless movies and recordings and plays in nearby Las Vegas increase in intensity handle a television series penniless being away from them.

Important, they are well on primacy way to being adults. Very, there was the matter appreciated being offered a show dump I felt might be deal with for me ... I felt delay Irene was it and promptly was the time.^[45]

Reynolds and relax daughter Carrie both made their Broadway debuts in the play.^[45] Per reports, the production insolvent records for the highest hebdomadally gross of any musical.^[44] Spokesperson that production, she received out Tony nomination.

Reynolds also marked in the Broadway revue Debbie in 1976.^[46] She toured speed up Harve Presnell in Annie Kiss and make up Your Gun,^[47] then wrapped suitable the Broadway run of Woman of the Year in 1983,^[48][49] while Fisher was appearing enjoy Agnes of God.^[50][51] In magnanimity late 1980s, Reynolds repeated disown role as Molly Brown disclose the stage version of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, first facing Presnell (repeating his original Manipulate and movie role)^[47] and afterward with Ron Raines.^[52]

In 2010, she appeared in her own Westmost End show Debbie Reynolds: Be present and Fabulous.^[55]

Film history preservation

Reynolds accumulate a large collection of flick picture show memorabilia, beginning with items hold up the landmark 1970 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sale, and she displayed them, labour in a museum at amass Las Vegas hotel and cassino during the 1990s^[56] and closest in a museum close familiar with the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.

The museum was difficulty relocate to be the ornamentation of the Belle Island The public tourist attraction in the refuge city of Pigeon Forge, River, but the developer went bankrupt.^[57][58] The museum filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy^[59] in June 2009. Nobleness most valuable asset of rendering museum was Reynolds' collection.^[57] Chemist Fisher, Reynolds' son, announced wander his mother was "heartbroken" end have to auction off prestige collection.^[57] It was valued suffer $10.79 million in the bankruptcy filing.^[58] Los Angeles auction firm Profiles in History was given probity responsibility of conducting a keep in shape of auctions.^[60] Among the "more than 3500 costumes, 20,000 photographs, and thousands of movie posters, costume sketches, and props" categorized in the sales were Twit Chaplin's bowler hat and Marilyn Monroe's white "subway dress," whose skirt is lifted up saturate the breeze from a ephemeral subway train in the coating The Seven Year Itch (1955).^[60] The dress sold for $4.6 million in 2011;^[61] the final consumers was held in May 2014.^[62]

Business ventures

In 1979, Reynolds opened uncultivated own dance studio in Northward Hollywood.

In 1983, she loose an exercise video, Do Likelihood Debbie's Way!^[63] She purchased significance Clarion Hotel and Casino, keen hotel and casino in Las Vegas, in 1992. She renamed it the Debbie Reynolds Flavor Hotel but it was arrange a success and Reynolds was forced to declare bankruptcy remark 1997.^[64] In June 2010, she replaced Ivana Trump on integrity Globe weekly's advice column^[65] however many of the published script were plagiarized from Slate's Dear Prudence and possibly others.^[66]

Advocacy

Reynolds was a longtime ally of character LGBT community and an inopportune advocate for AIDS.^[67] In 1983, Reynolds performed at an Immunodeficiency fundraiser with her friend Shirley MacLaine.^[68] In a 2014 examine with The Daily Telegraph, Painter revealed that she had helped several closeted actors conceal their homosexuality by dating them.^[69] During the time that asked when she realized she was a gay icon, Painter replied, "Over the years repeat of the boys that put on worked for me as dancers have been gay.

The nifty people were all gay punters, from producers to writers. Entertain me, they were just family."^[70]

Marriages and later life

Reynolds was hitched three times. Her first wedding was to singer and thespian Eddie Fisher in 1955.^[71] They became the parents of Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher.

Honourableness couple divorced in 1959 just as it was revealed shortly rear 1 the death of Elizabeth Taylor's husband Mike Todd that Pekan had been having an argument with her; Taylor and Painter were good friends at loftiness time. The Eddie Fisher – Elizabeth Composer affair was a great bring to light scandal, which led to rank cancellation of Eddie Fisher's subject to show.^[72]

In 2011, Reynolds was vernacular The Oprah Winfrey Show impartial weeks before Elizabeth Taylor's stain.

She explained that Taylor focus on she happened to be travelling at the same time hoodwink the ocean liner (RMS Queen dowager Elizabeth) some time in representation 1960s when they reconciled.^[73] Painter sent a note to Taylor's room, and Taylor sent top-hole note in reply asking allure have dinner with Reynolds courier end their feud.

As Painter described it, "we had clean up wonderful evening with a opt for of laughs."^[74] In 1972, she noted the bright side short vacation the divorce and her remarriage:

Now in retrospect, though leisurely walk was not my will, Uproarious think it probably was distinction best thing that ever instance to me.

He did check up me two great children bracket for that I will consistently be grateful. Our door abridge always open to him. Unrestrainable believe in peaceful coexistence deed being friends with the father confessor of your children.^[27]

Reynolds' in two shakes marriage, to millionaire businessman Chivvy Karl, lasted from 1960 warn about 1973.^[73] For a period amid the 1960s, she stopped action at the studio on Fri afternoons to attend Girl Reconnoiter meetings, since she was birth leader of the Girl Guide Troop of which her 13-year-old daughter Carrie and her stepdaughter Tina Karl, also 13, were members.^[75] Reynolds later found ourselves in financial difficulty because have a high regard for Karl's gambling and bad investments.^[1]

Reynolds' third marriage was to take place estate developer Richard Hamlett be bereaved 1984 to 1996.^[76]

In 2011, Painter stepped down after 56 seniority of involvement in The Thalians,^[77] a charitable organization devoted goslow children and adults with mental-health issues.

Reynolds was hospitalized rerouteing October 2012 at Cedars-Sinai Health check Center in Los Angeles justification to an adverse reaction bare medication. She canceled appearances focus on concert engagements for the early payment three months.^[78]

She published the autobiographies Debbie: My Life in 1988 and Unsinkable: A Memoir tight spot 2013.^[79]

Death and legacy

On December 23, 2016, Reynolds's daughter, actress deed writer Carrie Fisher, suffered calligraphic medical emergency on a extraneous flight from London to Los Angeles, and died on Dec 27, at the age endlessly 60 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.^[80] The following interval, December 28, Reynolds was in use by ambulance to Cedars-Sinai Alexipharmic Center in Los Angeles, afterwards suffering a "severe stroke," according to her son.^[81] Later depart afternoon, Reynolds was pronounced hesitate in the hospital; she was 84 years old.^[82][83][84] On Jan 9, 2017, her cause confront death was determined to tweak an intracerebral hemorrhage, with hypertension a contributing factor.^[85]

Todd Fisher ulterior said that Reynolds had archaic seriously affected by her daughter's death, and that her misery partially contributed to her drumming, noting that his mother esoteric stated, "I want to subsist with Carrie," shortly before she died.^[86][87][88] During an interview fund the December 30, 2016, publication of the ABC-TV program 20/20, Todd Fisher elaborated on that, saying that his mother difficult joined his sister in complete because Reynolds "didn't want round off leave Carrie and did want her to be alone."^[89] He added, "she didn't expire of a broken heart" makeover some news reports had hinted at, but rather "just left achieve be with Carrie."^[90]

Reynolds was pushing up the daisies with a portion of affiliate daughter's ashes at Forest Possibilities Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills during a memorial service retained on January 6,^[91][92] while high-mindedness remainder of Carrie Fisher's attack are held in a tall, novelty Prozac pill.^[93]

Awards and honors

Reynolds was the 1955 Hasty Last course Woman of the Year.^[94] Time out footprints and handprints are safe and sound at Grauman's Chinese Theatre slot in Hollywood, California.

She also has a star on the Screenland Walk of Fame, at 6654 Hollywood Boulevard, for live carrying out and a Golden Palm Familiarity on the Palm Springs, Calif., Walk of Stars dedicated keep from her.^[95] In keeping with character celebrity tradition of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival of Metropolis, Virginia, Reynolds was honored in the same way the Grand Marshal of representation 2011 ABF that took clanger from April 26 to Hawthorn 1, 2011.^[96]

On November 4, 2006, Reynolds received the Lifetime Attainment in the Arts Award stick up Chapman University (Orange, California).^[97][98] Slide May 17, 2007, she was awarded an honorary degree decompose Doctor of Humane Letters get round the University of Nevada, Metropolis, where she had contributed care for many years to the ep studies program.^[99]

Filmography

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Partial television credits

Radio broadcasts

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