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Miss Her So Much

posted 8 years ago by Tickerage
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I am really astonished at how her death has touched my heart so profoundly. I always liked Debbie Reynolds but Elizabeth Taylor was my favorite actress and ETs death didn't impact me nearly as much as Debbie's has. I suppose it is because Debbie died the day after Carrie, who I also absolutely loved. Carrie was undoubtedly the love of Debbie's life. You can see and really FEEL their love for each other in many interviews when they are together and in Bright Lights. When they lovingly stare into each others face or caress one another it is a truly beautiful love that is palpable.

Debbie on her own was in so many more movies than I had remembered. Charlotte's Web! The Singing Nun. The Pleasure of His Company. Mother. The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Divorce American Style. I am younger and so really appreciated her as Grace's mother on Will & Grace. Debbie played that role so well. She was really one of the best parts of that show. Whenever Debbie appeared, you knew it was going to be a great episode, largely due to her.

Here we are over a month in and my heart still aches and misses Debbie Reynolds. I just saw Postcards From the Edge again today and even though Shirley MacLain was in her role, Debbie shined through. What an amazing, multi-talented, brilliant lovely woman. She and Carrie dying essentially together is the most profound celebrity death I have experienced. It has hit me very deeply. I continue to mourn for them both.

At least there will be plenty implied.

[–] mcdemuth 8 years ago

I feel the same way...

Although Debbie Reynolds wasn't my favorite actress, I always enjoyed her performances in everything I saw her in.

She always seemed like she was a wonderful person too... I know she collected a lot of hollywood memorabilia, which kept Classic Hollywood alive for new fans.

Somehow, knowing great stars like Debbie Reynolds are still around and still acting is rather comforting...

When you also grow up with stars, like Carrie Fisher, playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars films... they seem like your friends.

Not only to lose a "friend", but also a part of "history" at the same time... and at Christmas time too... was a real blow to many people... Even my Dad mentioned this to me, and he was never a big movie fan.

To top it off, to hear her about her last words saying she "Missed Carrie, and wanted to be with her", and then for her to die just hours later... it becomes clear that her daughter's death was too much for her... It just made the whole thing even more tragic. My heart really went to pieces thinking about how much she was suffering.

It sounds like something out of a hollywood movie... But I can't even think of any movies that ever portrayed anything like that.

I know I have ever experienced anything like that with people i actually knew before, and I hope I never will...

This is something that is going to stay with me, probably the rest of my life. I will never be able to see one of their films again, without thinking about it.

[–] FlickerArt 8 years ago

It definitely rates up there as one of the most memorable pair of deaths in Hollywood history. I had only seen Reynolds in one movie for many years, Singin in the Rain. I never went out of my way to see anything else she was in, though I almost went to see a screening of How The West Was Won at Cinerama Dome interestingly in December a few weeks before she died. I ultimately I decided to skip it assuming she was always going to be around for me to see her do a Q&A later.

When she and her daughter died, I started looking up her acting credits and seeing what else she did. One revelation was that Singin in the Rain wasn't her debut in a movie. She was playing teenagers in these other roles in earlier films that I had no idea about. I didn't even know she was on Will and Grace. After over a month now, I can proudly say I've finally seen majority of her films and It's my loss that I never gave them a chance before. I'm incredibly sad that I didnt see to really appreciate Reynolds when she was living, I just thought of her as Kathy Seldon, Carrie Fisher's mom, and as a lady that collected Hollywood stuff.

Now I think of her as a legendary entertainer and hilarious comic that didn't deserve all the hardship in her life.

"Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."-MaryPickford

[–] hillfox20 8 years ago

What's wrong with you?, you seriously need help mourning an old film actress who wouldn't have given a toss about you!, Get a grip!!.

[–] mcdemuth 8 years ago

What do you care if some crazed fans mourn an actress?

[–] hillfox20 8 years ago

I don't care....but you said it a "crazed fan".....how sad!