Short Biography

Debbie Reynolds wasn`t a dancer until she was selected to be Gene Kelly`s partner in Singin` in the Rain (1952). Not yet twenty, she was a quick study. Twelve years later, it seemed like she had been around forever. She was only 31 when she gave an Academy Award nominated performance in The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964). She survived losing first husband Eddie Fisher to Elizabeth Taylor following the tragic death of Michael Todd. Her second husband, shoe magnate Harry Karl, gambled away his fortune as well as hers. With her children as well as Karl`s, she had to keep working and turned to the stage. She had her own casino in Las Vegas with a home for her collection of Hollywood memorabilia until it`s closure in 1997. She took the time to personally write a long letter that is on display in the Judy Garland museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota and to provide that museum with replicas of Garland`s costumes. The originals are in her newly-opened museum in Hollywood.

Miscellaneous Information

Friends and Family

Lillian Burns [Friend]

Elizabeth Taylor [Friend]

Dawn Addams [Associate]

Nancy Sinatra [Friend]

Yvonne De Carlo [Friend]

Jane Powell [Friend]

Pilar Wayne [Friend]

Lita Baron [Friend]

Pier Angeli [Friend]

Maxine N. Harman [Mother] (1913-1999)

Raymond Francis Reynolds [Father] (1903-1986)

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