Died Debbie Reynolds, the actress who made Gene Kelly singing in the rain – Public.en

"She wanted to be with Carrie." So it was that Todd Fisher has confirmed to Variety the death of his mother, the actress Debbie Reynolds. Had 84 years and didn’t survive the disappearance of her daughter, Carrie Fisher, just a day before. Hollywood loses almost at once two of the most well known faces of two times a significant characteristic of the american film: if Fisher was princess Leia of Star Wars, and royalty of the blockbusters, Reynolds was Kathy Selden Serenade in the Rain, which co-starred with Gene Kelly and Donald O’connor, and star of the musical "thegolden age".

The American Film Institute considers the Serenade in the Rain (1952) the best musical ever of the american film – soon, it is also the most remarkable career of Debbie Reynolds; but it is not the only one. After making his debut in the film the age of 16 and participate in some movies from the Warner Bros. – the studio who discovered it in a beauty contest – was hired in 1950 by MGM, appearing immediately in a film with Fred Astaire (Three Words) and creating a hit in the film the next Two Weeks of Love, a duet with Carleton Carpenter.

The music filled the whole decade of the 1950′s Debbie Reynolds, who appeared opposite with Bobby Van, Dick Powell, Jane Powell, Frank Sinatra, Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Leslie Nielsen, or Glenn Ford. The recognition of the Academy came much later, when nominated for the academy Award for Best Actress for performance in The Millions of Molly Brown (1964), the story of a girl simple in search of a husband and a better life. Was 31 years old.

at the time, Debbie Reynolds had already separated from the singer Eddie Fisher (1928-2010), with whom he had two sons (Todd and Carrie) and that the two of them are openly with the actress Elizabeth Taylor. Was married in second marriage with Harry Karl, who was divorced in 1973. Marry-went a third time, to Richard Hamlett, a union that lasted from 1984 to 1996.

Carrie Fisher, the princess of the stars

Reynolds was born in El Paso, Texas, 1 April 1932. The diminutive by which she was known only came later. On the birth certificate, it reads: Mary Frances Reynolds. He moved with his family to California (Burbank) when he was only seven years old. The daughter of Raymond Francis Reynolds, a carpenter company railway Southern Pacific Railroad, and Maxine Harmon, of british ancestry (English, scottish, and irish), was created according to the principles of a methodist church in north america.

it was Still escuteira when he recorded Serenade in the Rain; still I felt compelled to give precedence to the initiatives of the "community" – as they say in the USA – meets the requirements that a large studio had then for an actress who was on the verge of becoming a movie star global. Although the Serenade in the Rain be his sixth film, it was there that his career swayed to the decade and a half, and the next time that cemented his name in Hollywood.

In 1969, he came to the flat with a sitcom in the name itself – The Debbie Reynolds Show. Made a single season, but the small screen would be a constant: after a decade of the 1970′s to a very small degree both in TV as in film, he returned in the 1980s to a few episodes of The Love Boat and from then on, and throughout the five decades the following, she appeared in series and television drama (the last of which was Behind the Candelabra, Steven Soderbergh, in which she played the mother of the extravagant Liberace) and gave voice to animated characters.

participation in Will & Grace earned him a nomination for an Emmy in 2000, and is one of several occasions of recognition, which has returned to be at his job in the wake of Mother, where he played the role of the title character from the movie Albert Brooks. It was for this work that was appointed by the fifth and final time to the Golden Globes and it was with Mother to debut in the trading rooms that have earned the right to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in 1997.

In the nearly 70-year career, Debbie Reynolds received several awards. The last of which came directly from the Academy of motion picture Arts and Sciences – Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, an honorary academy Award that was assigned in the edition of 2016. Recovering from surgery, the actress was not at the ceremony. The eulogy was done by Meryl Streep, who qualified for Debbie Reynolds as "one of the stars of the most beloved of several generations."