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Empowering Theatre Arts Professionals through Performance, Education, Networking, Service, and Outreach in Southern California | |
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Academy of New Musical Theatre
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 Debbie Reynolds Born Mary Frances Reynolds on April Fools’ Day, 1932 in El Paso, Texas, she moved with her parents and brother Bill to Burbank, California when she was seven years old. She was an enthusiastic and energetic child who excelled in sports, Girl Scouts, baton twirling and in music, where her specialty was the French horn. Debbie’s show business career began at age sixteen when she won the local “Miss Burbank” beauty pageant. Her win led to a contract at MGM Studios. Her extensive filmography includes over 50 films such as Singin’ in the Rain, Tammy and the Bachelor and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, for which she was nominated for an Oscar. Her more recent film credits include Mother with Albert Brooks, In and Out with Kevin Kline, One for the Money with Katherine Heigle and four Halloweentown movies for the Disney channel. She has appeared on countless television programs including Will & Grace as Graces’ mother, Bobbi Adler, and starred in numerous stage musicals including Irene, Woman of the Year, Annie Get your Gun, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown. She has performed her nightclub act in every major city in America, Australia, and England. In her 63rd year of show business, Debbie is still “on the road” an average of 40 weeks a year! Debbie has been a life-long supporter and fund-raiser for the Girl Scouts, and has raised over 39 million dollars for the Thalians, a charitable organization and clinic that has provided mental health care services to over one million patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. In 1979 she established the Debbie Reynolds Professional Rehearsal Studios in North Hollywood, California, which has become one of the entertainment industry’s leading rehearsal, as well as professional dance training studios. Debbie is the proud mother of two children, son Todd Fisher and author/actress Carrie Fisher. In 1992, Carrie made her grandmother, giving birth to a beautiful baby girl, Billie Catherine.
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