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Debbie Reynolds: Warner Bros
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Debbie Reynolds has been in show business for more than 50 years. She got her start in beauty pageants before being discovered by a Warner Brothers film scout. The award-winning entertainer has starred in film, on stage and TV. She ... founded The Thalians, which has raised millions for emotionally disturbed children. Reynolds recently opened the Hollywood Motion Picture Museum to display her extensive collection of movie memorabilia.
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Debbie Reynolds film career began at MGM, a beauty contest where her beauty impressed Betty Hutton. Later she got a Motion Picture contract with Warner Brothers and acquired a new first name. Her great voice and stunning looks made her a favorite of the 1950s. Her most notable hit film was Singing In the Rain.
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Debbie Reynolds played the lead role in 'Singin' in the Rain' opposite to Gene Kelly. Inspite of her inability to tap dance, her hard work resulted in an outstanding performance and made the movie super hit. It proved to be a wonderful cast with Kelly and Donald O'Connor. After this, there was no look back for Reynolds and she went on starring numerous movies, including 'Bundle of Joy' in 1956, opposite to her then-husband, Eddie Fisher and recorded hit songs. The well acclaimed song included 'Tammy' from her 1957 film 'Tammy and the Bachelor'. Reynolds won an Oscar nomination for her wonderful performance in 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' in 1964.
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In the mid-1960s Debbie put together her first nightclub act, which debuted at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. In the decades since, she has been a headliner on the casino circuit from Reno and Tahoe and Las Vegas to Atlantic City to the famed London Palladium, as well as in concert in every major American city, touring on the average of forty-two weeks a year. In 1973, she took a break from her nightclub appearances to star in the Broadway revival of "Irene," breaking all previous box office records for a Broadway musical. After an enormously successful national tour of the show, Debbie returned to the musical stage with another hit revival, Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun," directed by the late Gower Champion (who ... directed "Irene").
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In 1948, when Debbie is just 16 she wins the Miss Burbank contest. Warner Bros signs her to a contract, for which she plays in two movies. Following, MGM signs her to a contract and this begins her career as an MGM superstar. Her first movie for MGM is "Singing in the Rain."
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Debbie's discovery was a Cinderella story come true. As a child her family moved to Burbank, California and when she was crowned Miss Burbank in 1948, Warner Brothers took notice and signed the teenager to a film contract. She made her film debut in June Bride (1948) and following The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady Debbie moved to MGM, where she made her mark as the pert songstress of Three Little Words (paying Helen Kane, who dubbed her vocalizing of "I Wanna Be Loved by You". She nearly stole Two Weeks With Love (1950) out from under star Jane Powell with her peppy production number, "Abba Dabba Honeymoon" with Carleton Carpenter.
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