From 1994: The "Unsinkable" Debbie Reynolds

Debbie Reynolds, the Hollywood girl-next-door, became a star virtually overnight with the success of "Singin' in the Rain." Not even suffering bad marriages and going broke could keep the actress-singer-dancer down. Correspondent Bill Lagattuta talked with Reynolds, and with her daughter, Carrie Fisher, about a life that could only have been written for the movies. Originally broadcast December 29, 1994 on "Eye to Eye with Connie Chung."

[@michaelneel4828]

What a great lady & actress ! She made my Great Great Grandmother remembered for all time . MRS Margret Brown . Thank you ...

[@kennethwayne6857]

I think Tammy Grimes had a hand in that too, though of course Debbie had a much wider audience.

[@beckyknight1219]

No matter what she always kept a great attitude.

[@sisterluke]

Breaks my heart in all of these interviews she gushes over opening a motion picture museum and it ended up never happening.

[@glennfromthebronx]

I think Debbie DID open the museum....built then CLOSED it....financial problems.

[@leemclaury6251]

yes, it did in Vegas I went there a few times , I even had my picture taken with a Debbie at her casino museum after her show.

[@lovemetender9979]

I love Debbie and her daughter. I'll miss them both.

[@ulrichlehnhardt4293]

She was in fact unsinkable.... till the moment she lost her child.

[@safeinmyheart1]

So true. 😪

[@dave327ful]

I always think of Debbie Reynolds in The Unsinkable Molly Brown!

[@ursulareeg1171]

What a woman!!!!

[@Tyler380]

If you don't do anything else in this world .. Read her book.. "Unsinkable: A Memoir' I fell in love with her.. In the past I've seen all her movies.. I will never forget her..

[@BrettandJohn]

Larry 306 It’s even better listening to Debbie reading it. You can get it on audible. It’s like she’s there in the room with you. Miss Debbie.

[@safeinmyheart1]

@@BrettandJohn It's wonderful... listening as I walk each night. So heartbreaking all that she went through. Amazing woman!

[@rogerpropes7129]

I read it too, Shirley MacLaine wanted Molly Brown but Debbie fought for it.

[@stefanvanrensburg6096]

Utterly beautiful & adorable till the end

[@lindac6416]

Love this move ❤

[@windstorm1000]

What happened to Debbie's fabulous collection

[@randysills4418]

It was sold off piece-meal in an auction...

[@Stevebaby123]

I saw this hotel and her show. Met her afterwards. It was a nice museum too.

[@rpal320]

What a 🌟STAR🌟!!! Debbie Renolds (Mary Fracis) is one of my most favorite people in the whole world! She was TREMENDOUS as Molly Brown!!! She was a real live genuine person! Beautiful inside and out! A heart of gold💛!!!

[@jennifer86010]

Debbie is such a pro. She smiled and was upbeat through this entire interview, even when the subject became her deadbeat husbands, loosing all her money, Elizabeth Taylor who stole her husband, and former singer/husband Eddie Fisher who left her for Elizabeth. Debbie was a force of nature. A very intelligent, super talented force of nature. They sure don't make 'em like that anymore. R.I.P. Mary Francis.

[@AfroSamurai1089]

3:19 Carrie's deadpan delivery! Gosh these two were such stars.

[@123brownjames]

Such a lovely lady did not deserve all the divorces she had 😢

[@irisfryer6531]

Or the drug addled daughter.

[@meman6964]

Or to be robbed by those men!!!!

[@jamesfox2579]

God bless you Debbie! LOVE her!! RIP

[@iandickson1330]

Remember seeing Debbie Reynolds in the film Tammy in the Kirriemuir picture house the only time I was with my mum for a while but ended up with my pals a great film must have been in the 1950s great times when kirrie had the lot

[@irisfryer6531]

Carrie still looks like the Carrie I remember here.

[@Ma_Ba]

She was about 37 then.

[@catherinemathers5325]

What's with the little sun on the lower right?

[@kalakaminsky5010]

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[@jimrick6632]

MODERATOR WAS OFF ON YEARS BETWEEN "THREE LITTLE WORDS" AND "SINGING IN THE RAIN"...1950 AND 1952...2 YEARS...NOT 4...

[@DooWopKing2011]

LOVED this, having been to her hotel, show and museum, brilliantly staged by her talented son Todd Fisher. Debbie was kind enough to meet with my sweetheart Aileen and me after her performance and pose for a photo with us! Sincerely, Dan Hogan (Retired Broadcaster & Entertainment Reporter)

[@JamesCarbajal-v8c]

Remember watching this Incredible show on TV in LA Calif back in 66, even though was made in 64, but as we all remember we only had 3 networks, so this was the Super Sunday movie of the week on NBC, and to this day at 63 will never forger, He "s my Friend, and will stay Friend, even though the bitters end a million years away!! and lets not forget, Belly Up to the Bar, then there's The Tender Trap, Love You Debbie, you caught my eye at only 6, and at 63 Miss ya like the Dickens..

[@jimrick6632]

I MISS MISS REYNOLDS...BUT SHE DID HAVE ONE FLAW....SAYING OVER AND OVER THAT SHE NEVER DANCED BEFORE "SINGING IN THE RAIN"...ANYONE ELSE NOTICE HER TWO DANCE NUMBERS IN JANE POWELL'S FILM"TWO WEEKS WITH LOVE" IN 1950????

[@josephtafur]

JIM RICK is called practice

[@bangbgood]

True, she'd been studying dancing at both Warner Brothers and MGM for about 4 years before she was in Singin' in the Rain.

[@kennethwayne6857]

@@bangbgood It can't really compare with being bullied by that tyrant Gene Kelly, brilliant though he was.

[@RuralJuror420]

Carrie Fisher is an icon, as is Deborah. They are both so different. But what I love is that Deborah is a real life Marvelous Miss Maisel

[@lonisan6632]

muy guapa buenisima actriz y una bellisima sonrisa

[@rogerpropes7129]

Who wore the black dress at 6:03?

[@TomRipley7350]

Does anybody know what happened? Was the hotel a success?

[@Aprilme2]

From what I learned the hotel failed, and the museum never opened. She ended up having to auction off her collection.

[@utubewatcher806]

Failed; opened in the 1990s in the remains of a hotel which failed, floundered then failed in 1997 with spectacular "ET" and "Access" headline news. Her efforts no doubt pricked awareness to preserve Hollywood's film history, however.

[@craigmiller8833]

Recently torn down