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Debbie Reynolds
Actor + Dancer and Singer
Female
Born
Apr 1, 1932
Age
81
Hometown
El Paso
Other Names
Reynolds, Mary Fr...
Debbie Reynolds is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Initially signed at age sixteen by Warner Bros. , Reynolds' career got off to a slow start. When her contract was not renewed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) gave her a small but significant part… Read More
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Debbie Reynolds
Age 81
parents
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Raymond Francis ReynoldsFather, Age 110 -
Maxine HarmonMother, Age 100
children
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Todd FisherSon
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1932
Birth
Born on April 1, 1932.

1939
7 Years Old
Her family moved to Burbank, California, in 1939, and she was raised in a strict Nazarene faith.
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TEENAGE

1951
19 Years Old
Her song "Aba Daba Honeymoon" (featured in the film Two Weeks with Love 1950 as a duet with Carleton Carpenter) was a top-three hit in 1951.
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TWENTIES

1955
23 Years Old
Reynolds has been married three times. Her first marriage was to singer Eddie Fisher in 1955.
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1957
25 Years Old
Her recording of the song "Tammy" (from her film Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)) earned her a gold record, and was the best-selling single by a female vocalist in 1957.
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Reynolds's first marriage, to popular singer Eddie Fisher, produced a son and a daughter, actress/author Carrie Fisher, but ended in divorce in 1959 when Fisher fell in love with Reynolds's former (and later) friend Elizabeth Taylor.
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1960
28 Years Old
Her second marriage, to millionaire businessman Harry Karl, lasted from 1960 to 1973.
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THIRTIES
1970
38 Years Old
In what Reynolds has called the "stupidest mistake of my entire career", she made headlines in 1970 after instigating a fight with the NBC television network over cigarette advertising on her eponymous television series; NBC cancelled the show.
FORTIES
1973
41 Years Old
Reynolds made her Broadway debut in 1973 in a revival of Irene, a musical first produced 60 years before.
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FIFTIES

1983
51 Years Old
She toured with Harve Presnell in Annie Get Your Gun, then wrapped up the Broadway run of Woman of the Year in 1983.
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1984
52 Years Old
Reynolds was married to real estate developer Richard Hamlett from 1984 to 1996.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1994
62 Years Old
Reynolds continues to make appearances in film and television. She played Helen Chappel Hackett's mother, Deedee Chappel, on an episode of Wings titled, "If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother", which originally aired on November 22, 1994.
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1996
64 Years Old
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In 1996 and 1997, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy, in the American Comedy Awards.
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2006
74 Years Old
In November 2006, Reynolds received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from Chapman University (Orange, California).

2007
75 Years Old
On May 17, 2007, she was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Nevada, Reno, (Reno, Nevada) where she had contributed for many years to the film-studies program.
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In 2011, first on The Oprah Winfrey Show only weeks before Elizabeth Taylor's death from congestive heart failure, Reynolds explained that she and Taylor happened to be traveling on the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth at the same time when they made up.
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2012
80 Years Old
Reynolds was hospitalized in October 2012 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles because she had an adverse reaction to medication she was taking.
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