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Debbie Reynolds
Age: 77
Height: 5' 2"
Birth Place: El Paso, Texas, USA
Born: Apr. 1st, 1932
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BIOGRAPHY: Debbie Reynolds' film career began at MGM after she won a beauty contest at age 16 impersonating Betty Hutton (I). Most of her film work has been in MGM musicals, as perky, wholesome young women. She continues to use her dancing skills with stage work. Nearly all the money she makes is spent toward her goal of creating a Hollywood museum. Her collection numbers more than 3000 costumes and 46,000 square-feet worth of props and equipment.
TRIVIA:
- Made her Broadway debut in 1973 in the revival of "Irene". Although the reviews for the show itself were mixed, hers were all raves and she wound up with a Tony Award nomination the following year for Best Actress in a Musical. The production ultimately ran some 20 months. In 1976, she appeared in a one-woman, short-run (10 days - 14 performances) review named "Debbie!" at the Minskoff Theatre. Her only other Broadway appearance to date came when she succeeded 'Lauren Bacall' (qv) in "Woman of the Year" in 1983.
- In 1975, she sold the Beverly Hills mansion that she had lived in with 'Harry Karl' (qv). The house was reputed to be worth over $1,000,000. The buyer was 'Jim Randall (I)' (qv), an industrialist who made aircraft rivets. When he married actress 'Marisa Berenson' (qv), the wedding was held in the redecorated home and his best man was his friend 'George Hamilton (I)' (qv).
- In 1964, she went into the hospital business, purchasing Oceanside Hospital in Oceanside, California for $1,000,000 with plans to turn it into a profitable business venture.
- April 2002: Opened the Hollywood Motion Picture Collection near the new Kodak Theatre. The collection, which was collected and preserved primarily by Reynolds herself, features over 3,000 costumes including 'Carmen Miranda' (qv)'s turbans, a pair of 'Judy Garland (I)' (qv)'s ruby slippers from _The Wizard of Oz (1939)_ (qv), 'John Wayne (I)' (qv)'s guns and 'Marilyn Monroe' (qv)'s windswept dress from _The Seven Year Itch (1955)_ (qv).
- Considers herself a "movie-oholic" and has an extensive collection of memorabilia, with over 4,000 costumes from the silent screen period to the 1970s. She has been known to gather posters from her collection of 3,000 and drive to homes of actor pals for autographs. In the 1990s she turned her collection into a Las Vegas movie museum, but had to shut it down in 1997 because of financial problems. Recently she has looked into the possibility of opening up a hall of fame museum in Hollywood near Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
- Ex-mother-in-law of 'Paul Simon (I)' (qv).
- Her father entered her in a beauty pageant once when she was very young. She wore a bathing suit that her mother had mended that morning and a pair of her sister's high heels.
- In January 1996, Debbie Reynolds dedicated the Holland-America Line cruise ship the MS Veendam.
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