Debbie Reynolds Biography :
Debbie Reynolds in a studio publicity photo Susan Slept Here (1954). Directed by Frank Tashlin. Shown: Debbie Reynolds 1. Debbie Reynolds , the Oscar-nominated singer-actress who was the mother of late actress Carrie Fisher , has died at Cedars-Sinai hospital. She was 84. “She wanted to be with Carrie,” her son Todd Fisher told Variety . Debbie Reynolds with Vic Damone in ‘Athena’ Athena (1954). Directed by Richard Thorpe. Shown: Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone 2. She was taken to the hospital from Carrie Fisher’s Beverly Hills house Wednesday after suffering a stroke, the day after her daughter Carrie Fisher died. 3. The vivacious blonde, who had a close but sometimes tempestuous relationship with her daughter, was one of MGM’s principal stars of the 1950s and ’60s in such films as the 1952 classic “Singin’ in the Rain” and 1964’s “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” for which she received an Oscar nomination as best actress. 4. Reynold