debbie reynolds

And that, according to what is said, his work in the mythical musical, for many the best of all time, was about to not exist. Apparently, Debbie did not have the approval of Gene Kelly , co-director of the film along with Stanley Donen , and to make matters worse, the actress did not know how to tap dance. In any case, fate wanted her to be the one to complete the film’s famous acting trio with Donald O’Connor and Kelly himself, and the result was exceptional rapport between them and wonderful complicity with the audience.

Mary Frances Reynolds was born in El Paso (Texas) on April 1, 1932. When she was seven years old, the family moved to Burbank, California, a city where the future actress won the local beauty contest at the age of 16. . Thanks to that she did not have to train much to be an actress. Proclaimed “Miss Burbank” she then adopted the name Debbie and landed her first film contract. She thus appeared in the Warner film June Bride , starring Bette Davis , although Debbie was not credited. Later, at the age of eighteen, her name appeared for the first time inThe Daughter of Rosie O’Grady (1950) and the same year he also joined the cast of the brilliant musicalThree Little Words , with Fred Astaire . The following year, inMr. Imperium his cache grew with an important role. and so it cameSinging in the rain when the actress was only 20 years old. Debbie played Kathy Shelden, a smart girl with a lot of laughter who was substituting for the female lead in a movie just in the years when silent movies were changing to talkies. The musical number in which they decide that she is the protagonist, titled “Good Morning”, is a marvel of sympathy, joy and coordination between the three main characters. Since then, the actress has mainly cultivated musical comedy and she hardly has any outstanding films of other genres. His thing was to entertain and give her frank smile to the audience.

In the fifties and the sixties it is necessary to locate the best films of the actress. In 1953 she reprized herself with Donald O’Connor in I Love Melvin , and the following year she accompanied Dick Powell in the hilariousLas tres noches de Susana , and he filmed again under the orders of Richard Thorpe the musicalAthena . After teaming up with Frank Sinatra inThe bachelor and love (1955), worked in 1959 under the orders of George Marshall in three stupendous musical films: How to Catch a Husband ,It started with a kiss andA recalcitrant dead .

In 1955 the actress married the musician and actor Eddie Fisher , whom she would divorce after four years. As a result of this marriage, two children were born, one of them is the actress Carrie Fisher , who would become world famous years later when she played Princess Leia in Star Wars . Debbie Reynolds remarried twice, in 1960 and 1984, but both marriages also failed and ended in divorce.

In the sixties Debbie dared to shoot some westerns, among them the superclassicThe Conquest of the West (1962), but above all he gave free rein to his comic vision in works such asAlone in the face of danger (1961),His pleasant company (1961), where he returned to work with Fred Astaire, orDominique (1966), where she played a singing nun. She is also from that timeMolly Brown always afloat (1963), musical set in the west thanks to which the actress was nominated for an Oscar. And one of her last important roles was obtained inMy wife’s boyfriend (1967), where he shared the bill with Dick Van Dyke . From that moment on, the actress, at just 35 years old, dedicated herself mainly to television, with sporadic appearances in series of some success, such asHolidays at sea ,the golden girls ,Roseanne or the most recentWill & Grace .