Real Name: Mary Frances Reynolds
Birthdate: April 1,1932
Birthplace: El Paso, Texas
Husbands:
Eddie Fisher (18 September 1955 - 1959) (divorced) 2 children
Harry Karl (1960 - 1973) (divorced)
Richard Hamlett (? - 199?) (divorced)
Nickname: Princess Leia's Mom
Height: 5'2"
Files for 'Chapter 11' Bankruptcy protection. [July 1997]
Mother of actress Carrie Fisher.
Mother of Todd Fisher
Debbie appeared as Dan's mother (who just got out of the mental ward) during an episode of the sitcom "Roseanne" (1988). When she later appeared on Roseanne's talk show, she revealed that during the filming of that episode, while they're wrestling in the back yard, Roseanne accidently broke one of her ribs. Even Roseanne didn't know she had done it.
In 1984 Debbie - with friends like 'Shelley Winters' and 'Terry Moore' - made a rather restrained exercise video for "women of a certain age."
Won the 1948 Miss Burbank contest and was offered a screen test by Warner Brothers the day after her win. She initially entered the contest because everyone who entered received a silk scarf, blouse and free lunch.
Prior to her acting career, Debbie aspired to be a phys-ed teacher.
Ex-mother-in-law of Paul Simon (I).
Debbie Reynolds made her 'first' ever appearance at the "Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show", on April 6th & 7th, 2002, at Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn, in North Hollywood, California.
In 1975 Debbie sold the Beverly Hills mansion that she had lived in with Harry Karl. The house was reputed to be worth over one million dollars. The buyer was Jim Randall, an industrialist who made aircraft rivets. He married actress Marisa Berenson, the wedding was held in the redorated house and his best man was his friend George Hamilton.
Considers herself a "movie-oholic" and has an extensive collection of memorabilia, with over 4,000 costumes from the silent screen period to the 1970s. She has been known to gather posters from her collection of 3,000 and drive to homes of actor pals for autographs. In the 90s, she turned her collection into a Las Vegas movie museum, but had to shut it down in 1997 because of financial problems. Recently she has looked into the possibility of opening up a hall of fame museum in Hollywood near Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
At one particularly low point in her career, Reynolds confessed to literally living in her car...a Cadillac.
April 2002 - Opened the Hollywood Motion Picture Collection near the new Kodak theater. The collection, which was preserved primarily by Reynolds herself, features over 3000 costumes including Carmen Miranda's turbans, Judy Garland's ruby slippers from Oz, John Wayne's guns, and Marilyn Monroe's windswept dress.
Made her Broadway debut in 1973 in the revival of "Irene." Although the reviews for the show itself were mixed, Ms. Reynolds' were all raves, and she wound up with a Tony Award nomination the following year for Best Actress in a Musical. The production ultimately ran some twenty months. Ms. Reynolds's only other Broadway appearences to date came when she succeeded Lauren Bacall in "Woman of the Year" in 1983.
