Debbie Reynolds, who became a silver screen legend in films like Singin’ in the Rain, died Wednesday at the age of 84, after suffering a stroke.
Her passing comes just one day after the loss of her daughter, beloved actress and writer Carrie Fisher.
Reynolds was rushed to the hospital at around 1 p.m.
She was at her son Todd Fisher’s house in Beverly Hills, planning for her late daughter Carrie Fisher’s funeral, when she complained she wasn’t feeling well and someone called 911.
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Yesterday, Reynolds was on Facebook reacting to Carrie’s death:
“Thank you to everyone who has embraced the gifts and talents of my beloved and amazing daughter,” Reynolds wrote. “I am grateful for your thoughts and prayers that are now guiding her to her next stop. Love Carries Mother”
Reynolds will be remembered for roles in Hollywood classics like Tammy and the Bachelor and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, which earned her an Oscar nomination in 1964.
Her relationship with her daughter Carrie was the subject of Carrie’s semi-autobiographical novel Postcards from the Edge, which was later adapted for a film starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine.
Debbie is survived by her son Todd, who told TMZ, “She’s with Carrie.”
Here’s Debbie, singing un-dubbed (her singing was dubbed in the film release) in the 1952 film Singin’ in the Rain:
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Very sad year.
Xzamilloh
This if fucking… wow. I can’t with this year anymore. So many legends just dying. Death is inevitable and these are just humans like you and me, but still to see so many people who have impacted film, television, sports, and everyday life all dying in the same year. Wow.
Jack Meoff
She will be sorely missed. I very funny lady and a consistent supporter of the gay community. I feel for their family losing both Debbie and Carrie just one day apart.
Kangol
This is so, so sad. Two talented actors, mother and daughter, gone in two days. 2016, we are long past ready to quit you!
Poncho Sanchez
@Xzamilloh: I would opine that we’re going to have to adjust to this new paradigm. The baby boomers and beyond didn’t exactly practice a healthy life-style and life-span has peaked, plateaued and beginning to decline a bit. Many of us don’t want to be in a nursing home where we’re abused, pricked, probed, dripped, cut into and irradiated. We witnessed this with our parents and many are saying no way.
Paco
People really can die from a broken heart. RIP Debbie Reynolds.
Kieran
More proof that you can die from a broken heart.
RIP Mary Frances “Debbie” Reynolds. Who could ever forget her as the “Singing Nun”?
https://youtu.be/iRO4BYZ6cqE
BigG
Tragedy. I adore Billie lourd in scream queens. Can’t imagine what she’s going through. Two amazing legends gone in two days. Awful.
condej_peoples
This is Just Too Much To Handle! 2016 Can’t End Soon Enough!
R.I.P. Ms.Reynolds and Thank You.
Heywood Jablowme
She didn’t win an Oscar for “Unsinkable Molly Brown” but she was nominated.
I’m surprised you don’t mention her later gay-friendly TV work, playing Grace’s mom on W&G and Liberace’s mom on “Behind the Candelabra.”
Hussain-TheCanadian
@Paco: I really do believe that there isn’t anything harder on a parent than burying their own child. A broken heart indeed, may they both be in peace.
silveroracle
So many good actors, singers, songwriter is, et cetera. Where does it stop.
abnerb
CARRIE FRANCES FISHER WAS AN OLD WOMAN-60 YEARS OLD. YOUNG IS UNDER 30 YEARS OLD. CARRIE FRANCES FISHER’S OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE GRANDCHILDREN. I like all the Star Wars movies. Carrie Frances Fisher did a nice job being Princess Leia. She was old (60), so it was her time to go. Mark Richard Hamill is alive as of 2016 to be Luke Skywalker.
Heywood Jablowme
@abnerb: Anyone named “Abner” must be REALLY old!