Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie’s daughter Billie Catherine Lourd, at Debbie Reynolds’ Hollywood Memorabilia Exhibit Reception in Beverly Hills, CA, June 7, 2011. Photo © 2011 Joseph Martinez/Picturelux – All Rights Reserved.
Debbie Reynolds, the vivacious leading lady in Hollywood musicals and comedies in the 1950s and 1960s died on Wednesday, according to Variety, just a day after the death of her daughter, actress Carrie Fisher.
The actress gained national fame as the star, alongside Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor, of one of the most beloved movies of all time, Singin in the Rain. Reynolds had an enduring (nearly 70-year) career in film, television and theater. She received an Oscar nomination for The Unsinkable Molly Brown and famously lost her husband, Eddie Fisher, to her good friend Elizabeth Taylor.
In confirming her death, son Todd Fisher told E! News, “She went to be with Carrie. In fact, those were the last words she spoke this morning.”
Reynolds was hospitalized Wednesday afternoon after suffering a stroke at a Beverly Hills home, barely a day after daughter Carrie Fisher died at the age of 60 following a heart attack. Debbie Reynolds was 84.