Debbie Reynolds is one of the last of the Stars who graced the Hollywood scene towards the end of the Golden Era of Films.   Her first role of any note was in ‘Singin’ In The Rain’ with Gene Kelly and she is also one of the few actresses to have danced in films with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly – and to that I would add Donald O Connor too.

One of her films ‘Bundle of Joy’ which she starred in with her husband singer Eddie Fisher, I seem to remember well from my childhood – not so much that I saw it but that we saw the advertisements and publicity for it in the Picture Show or The Picturegoer magazines at the time OR just the newspaper ads that kept us up to speed with the films that were coming our way.

She had that lovely hit record Tammy from the film of the same name.  In the USA the film was called Tammy and the Bachelor released in 1957  although in England I am pretty sure it was just ‘Tammy’

It is reported that she was paid $150,000 for this film – which was a good amount – still is today but in 1957 that was pretty huge.

She had married Eddie Fisher two years before in 1955 and they went on to have two children together.

Divorce came in a very public fashion in 1959, when her husband ran off with Elizabeth Taylor – her best friend.

When she was going through her very public divorce from Eddie Fisher, news crews were camped out around the clock on her front lawn.

She gained public sympathy  as the “wronged wife by regularly granting  interviews in front of the house to waiting news reporters, often with and her two toddler children, Carrie and Todd Fisher, in her arms.

Her family love this picture of her ABOVE