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In one of the saddest showbiz stories of 2016, a day after her daughter Carrie Fisher passed away, musical legend Debbie Reynolds has died from a stroke. She started her career after winning a beauty contest which saw her be discovered by Hollywood, and began to win roles in films, including Three Little Words with Fred Astaire, though it was as the female lead in Singin' in the Rain alongside stern taskmaster Gene Kelly that she won her first major success; that film quickly became an all-time classic.
After that her singing and dancing was featured in a variety of entertainments, as well as her knack for comedy in such works as Susan Slept Here, The Tender Trap, Tammy and the Bachelor (which garnered her an international hit single), The Mating Game, How the West Was Won, The Unsinkable Molly Brown (securing her only Oscar nomination), the bizarre Goodbye Charlie, The Singing Nun, What's the Matter With Helen? and Charlotte's Web, where she voiced the spider. Her private life was famously tumultuous, but she continued to work on stage, film and television, notching up later appearances with Albert Brooks' comedy Mother, In & Out and Behind the Candelabra, her final role. She was a trouper. |
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