Debbie Reynolds

Debbie Reynolds is an American actress, singer, and dancer who has won critical acclaim for her classic Hollywood films and Broadway debuts. Debbie Reynolds' film career began at MGM after she won a beauty contest at age 16 impersonating Betty Hutton. Most of her film work has been in MGM musicals, as perky, wholesome young women.  In 1950, she was cast as Jane Powell's spirited sister in Two Weeks With Love.  Reynold’s fearless energy and wide-eyed delivery of such light-hearted songs as "Aba Daba Honeymoon" and "Row, Row, Row" breathed noticeable life into the turn-of-the-century musical romance, and she essentially came away as, the star of the film. In 1952, Reynolds starred alongside Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor in what was to become her most famous film, Singin’ In The Rain. In 1956, Debbie's stellar performance in Richard Brooks' domestic drama The Catered Affair, proved that, Debbie could also handle dramatic material. By the mid-1950s, Debbie had become one of Hollywood's most popular female stars. Other notable MGM films that Reynolds appeared in were The Mating Game, The Gazebo, with Glenn Ford, and It Started With A Kiss.

In 1959, Debbie became one of the top ten box-office stars of the year, placing fifth in the Quigley Exhibitor's Poll of Box-Office Champions.  In 1960, Debbie formed her own company, Harman Productions, and signed a three-year deal with ABC to produce a series of yearly television specials, the first of which, "A Date with Debbie".

One of Debbie Reynold’s most notable roles was in the Oscar-nominated The Unsinkable Molly Brown. But by the end of the 1960s, Debbie's film career had run its course and she began to appear more frequently on stage in Las Vegas, becoming a popular nightclub performer and finding a whole new outlet for her talents as an entertainer --one that would sustain her off and on for most of the next thirty years.  She then made a revival in her acclaimed role was in the 1974 Broadway show, Irene, which Debbie won the Outer Critics' Circle Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Her film career took another upturn in the mid-1990s, earning a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in 1996 Albert Brooks' Mother, and making subsequent appearances in In & Out (1997) and Zack and Reba (1998). Debbie Reynolds has proven to exemplify the role of a true star and she continues to impress audiences with her musical abilities today.