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In her memoirs, Debbie Reynolds paints herself as someone who’s the opposite of stuffy

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In her memoirs, Debbie : My Life and Unsinkable: A Memoir , Reynolds paints herself as someone who’s the opposite of stuffy.

She recounts her unrequited love for a young Robert Wagner , her friendships with the likes of Noel Coward , Clifton Webb , Janet Leigh , Judy Garland , Bette Davis , Agnes Moorehead .

Reynolds and Eddie Fisher were at the top of the entertainment world when they married in 1955 .

The virginal Reynolds was warned not to marry Fisher by Frank Sinatra and others, but she refused to listen.

After the birth of their daughter Carrie in 1957 , things got even worse.

The couple's first husband Mike Todd was killed in a plane crash in 1958 .

Debbie Reynolds was a keen mimic with an eye for the delightful and absurd.

She got a kick out of her co-stars' quirks: Marjorie Main carried her dead husband’s urn everywhere, hoisting him up on the commissary counter to order them lunch, and Anthony Perkins singing opera naked while jumping up and down on his dressing room couch.