Analyzing Debbie Reynolds's Character From 'Star Wars'

Remember that iconic female character from “Star Wars”. Her name is Carrie Fisher, but before her career skyrocketed her mother called the shots in the acting career. Debbie Reynolds was one of the greatest singers,dancers, and actress before and after the sixties but even more important she was a loving mother. Debbie was one of the few people who inspired many people to go after their dreams, no matter the struggles you go through.

Mary Frances Reynolds was really poor as a child. Her mother was a laundry cleaner and did not have a great income so Mary always appreciated every dollar. She even said, “One of the advantages of being poor is that you learn to appreciate good fortune and the value of a dollar.” (Reynolds) Later in life Mary

She was part of the show “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” and was even nominated for an Academy Award. She played a famed and unconventional lady of society and Titanic survivor. In which she killed the role and sent people into shock of how versatile she was. Debbie states that her biggest mistake was starring on “The Singing Nun” in which she got into a fight with NBC about her smoking on television and thought she was advertising it to the world. She simply did not want to deal with that so she talked to them and argued but she eventually quit the show. Debbie’s relationship would not last forever and after Elizabeth Taylor’s husband died Eddie divorced Debbie and married her. That wasn’t her only struggle though. She then married two men later that brought her into financial debt and eventually divorced them

She starred in “Charlotte’s Web” playing the role of Charlotte the spider. In another film called “Halloweentown” and played the grandmother that was a witch in a interesting town. She eventually she starred in the revival of “Irene” after not being in the original to care for her children. She states that “Primarily because I had two children growing up. I could make movies and recordings and play in nearby Las Vegas and handle a television series without being away from them. Now they are well on their way to being adults”. Even in her old age she made four anecdotes about her many shows and her life but many of the props she had from her numerous productions were sent to museum and one collection had to be sold and had a value of eleven million seventy-nine thousand dollars total. Even though she was still kicking and had a movie that was supposed to come out in twenty-seventeen her daughter Carrie Fisher died of a heart attack and then Debbie passed away a day later from a stroke with her son, while planning Carrie’s funeral, her last words were. “I miss Carrie”. She left shortly