Debbie: My Life

Debbie: My Life by Debbie Reynolds. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780671687922.

Back cover text: In the 50s, Debbie Reynolds was Hollywoods reigning ingenue. Pretty, sassy and bright... Americas sweetheart. But behind the dazzle was a young woman thrown into the starmaking machine and hoping fer personal happiness. Now, in a candid, funny, gutsy self-portrait, Debbie tells it all: the tears, the laughter, the bitter moments - and her dauntless determination to make her dreams come true. Taking us inside her private world, she reveals the real story of her marriage to Eddie Fisher, a marriage that blew apart when he began a torrid love affair with Elizabeth Taylor... and abandoned Debbie at the white-hot core of a sensational scandal. Here, too, is a startling expose of her years with second husband Harry Karl, a compulsive gambler and womanizer who left her in financial ruin. And here are star-studded tales of life in the limelight - of memories made with Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Gene Kelly, Bette Davis and Robert Wagner; the famous movies (among them Singin in the Rain and Tammy) and movie moguls; and her hard-won, enduring relationship with her daughter Carrie Fisher, and her son Todd Fisher. The last of the red-hot troupers, Debbie Reynolds has lived it all and emerged happily married, an active entertainer - and triumphant. Hers is more than the saga of one of filmdoms most dynamic legends - it is the fascinating and touching story of a true survivor.