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ByLynnElber TheAssociatedPress LOSANGELES ActressDeb- bie Reynolds, the star of the 1952 classic "Singin' in the Rain," has died. She was 84. Her son, Todd Fisher, said Reynolds died Wednes- day, a day after her daugh- ter, Carrie Fisher, who was 60. "She's now with Car- rie and we're all heartbro- ken," Fisher said from Ce- dars-Sinai Medical Cen- ter, where his mother was taken by ambulance earlier Wednesday. He said the stress of his sister's death "was too much" for Reynolds. Reynolds enjoyed the very heights of show busi- ness success and endured the depths of personal trag- edy and betrayal. She lost one husband to Elizabeth Taylor and two other hus- bands plundered her for millions. Fisher, who found lasting fame as Princess Leia in "Star Wars" and struggled for much of her life with drug addiction and mental health prob- lems, died on Tuesday after falling ill on a plane and be- ing hospitalized. In her screen career, Reynolds was a superstar early in life. After two mi- nor roles at Warner Bros. and three supporting roles at MGM, studio boss Louis B. Mayer cast her in "Sin- gin' in the Rain," despite Kelly's objections. She was 19 with little dance expe- rience, and she would be appearing with two of the screen's greatest dancers, Donald O'Connor and Kelly, who also co-directed. "Gene Kelly was hard on me, but I think he had to be," Reynolds, who more than held her own in the movie, said in a 1999 Asso- ciated Press interview. "I had to learn everything in three to six months. Don- ald O'Connor had been dancing since he was three months old, Gene Kelly since he was 2 years old. ... I think Gene knew I had to be challenged." "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" was based on the life of a Colorado woman who rose from poverty to riches and triumphed over tragedy, including the sink- ing of the Titanic. The 1964 Meredith Will- son musical, with Molly's defiant song "I Ain't Down Yet," brought Reynolds her only Academy Award nom- ination. She also received a Tony nomination in 1973 when she starred on Broad- way in the revival of "Irene," in which her daughter also appeared. After her transition from starlet to star, Reynolds became immensely popu- lar with teenage girls and even more so when in 1955 she married Eddie Fisher, the pop singer whose fans were equally devoted. The couple made a movie together, "Bundle of Joy," which seemed to mir- ror the 1956 birth of Car- rie. The Fishers also had a son, Todd, named for Ed- die's close friend and Tay- lor's husband, showman Mike Todd. During this period, Reynolds had a No. 1 hit on the pop charts in 1957 with "Tammy," the Os- car-nominated song from her film "Tammy and the Bachelor." But the Cinder- ella story ended after Mike Todd died in a 1958 air- plane crash. Fisher con- soled the widow and soon announced he was leaving his wife and two children to marry Taylor. The celebrity world seemed to lose its mind. Taylor was assailed as a husband stealer, Fisher as a deserter of his family. Reynolds won sympathy as the innocent victim, a role emphasized when she appeared before news cam- eras with diaper pins on her blouse. A cover head- line in Photoplay magazine in late 1958 blared: "Smil- ing through her tears, Deb- bie says: I'm still very much in love with Eddie." Fisher's singing career never recovered, but Taylor, who left him for Richard Burton in 1962, remained a top star. And Reynolds' film career flourished. She starred with Glenn Ford in "The Gazebo," Tony Cur- tis in "The Rat Race," Fred Astaire in "The Pleasure of His Company," Andy Griffith in "The Second Time Around," with the all- star cast in "How the West Was Won" and Ricardo Montalban in "The Sing- ing Nun." She also provided the voice of Charlotte the spi- der in the 1973 animated "Charlotte's Web." But over the years, her marital woes continued. In 1960 Reynolds mar- ried shoe magnate Harry Karl. The marriage ended in disaster when she dis- covered that Karl, a com- pulsive gambler, had dev- astated her assets and left her deeply in debt. She di- vorced him in 1973 and toured tirelessly with her song and dance show to pay off creditors. Reynolds' third mar- riage, to Virginia business- man Richard Hamlett in 1984, proved equally di- sastrous. In 1992, against friends' advice, she paid $10 million to buy and convert the faded Paddle- wheel Hotel in Las Vegas into the Debbie Reynolds Hotel and Casino. She per- formed nightly and con- ducted tours of her movie memorabilia, which she had collected since MGM auctioned its artifacts in 1970. Reynolds, who ended up filing for bankruptcy in 1997 and selling the prop- erty at aauction the next year, accused Hamlett of making off with her money. She once again went on the road. "All of my husbands have robbed me blind," she as- serted in 1999. "The only one who didn't take money was Eddie Fisher. He just didn't pay for the children." In her later years, Reyn- olds continued perform- ing her show, traveling 40 weeks a year. She also ap- peared regularly on tele- vision, appearing as John Goodman's mother on "Roseanne" and a mom on "Will & Grace." Her books included the memoirs "Un- sinkable" and "Make 'Em Laugh." In 1996 she won criti- cal acclaim in the title role of Albert Brooks' movie "Mother," in which Brooks played a struggling writer who moves back home and works on his strained re- lationship with Reynolds' character. A few years ear- lier, she had wanted to play the mother in the film ad- aptation of Fisher's bit- tersweet autobiographi- cal novel "Postcards From the Edge," which featured mother-daughter actresses. Director Mike Nichols cast Shirley MacLaine instead. Reynolds and Fisher were featured together in the HBO documentary "Bright Lights," scheduled for release in 2017. OBITUARY Actress Debbie Reynolds dies at 84 JOHNROONEY—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE Debbie Reynolds boards an airliner in New York en route to Spain where she will film a new picture. Reynolds, star of the 1952classic "Singin' in the Rain" and mother of Carrie Fisher, died Wednesday according to her son Todd Fisher. By Vivian Salama The Associated Press PALM BEACH, FLA. Presi- dent-elect Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of throwing up "inflamma- tory" roadblocks during the transition of power and his administration of treating Israel with "total disdain," further straining the ve- neer of civility between the incoming and outgo- ing leaders. Although Trump didn't detail his complaints in his morning broadsides on Twitter, the president- elect has made it clear that it didn't sit well with him when Obama re- cently boasted that he would have won the elec- tion if he'd been running. Trump's largely respectful tone about Obama since the election evaporated in his latest tweets. "Doing my best to dis- regard the many inflam- matory President O state- ments and roadblocks," Trump tweeted. "Thought it was going to be a smooth transition — NOT!" Trump also took direct issue with the Obama ad- ministration's decision to let a U.N. Security Coun- cil resolution critical of Is- rael pass. "We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and dis- respect," he said in a two- part tweet. "They used to have a great friend in the U.S., but ... not anymore. The beginning of the end was the horrible Iran deal, and now this (U.N.)! Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!" Later, however, journal- ists at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida asked him about the tweet and how he thought the transition was going. He said: "I think very, very smoothly. It's very good. You don't think so?" Trump and his team have until now been largely complimentary of the way Obama and his people have handled the transition. The president-elect's com- plaints about the treatment of Israel came a few hours before John Kerry was to make his final speech about Mideast peace as sec- retary of state — remarks that some Israeli officials panned in advance. The administration's decision not to veto the U.N. reso- lution aggravated an al- ready strained U.S.-Israel relationship. Trump's newly appointed press secretary, Sean Spicer, played down tensions between Trump and Obama. "As the inau- guration gets closer, both the current president and the team have been very generous with their time as far as the actual transi- tion, the actual mechanics of the transition have gone and I expect them to con- tinue to speak fairly regu- larly," Spicer said during the daily transition brief- ing, though he could not say exactly how often the two have spoken. Still, he said, Trump in- tends "to bring change to this country starting on Day 1." A dispute erupted Monday between Obama and Trump, spurred by Obama's hypothetical mus- ings that had he run again, he would have been victo- rious. Obama suggested he still holds enough sway over the coalition of voters who elected him twice to get them to vote for him once again. Trump's response to that was "NO WAY!" PRESIDENT ELECT Tr um p ac cu se s Ob am a of 'inflammatory' roadblocks ANDREW HARNIK — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla. 6,137fans+21 this week Facebook Page YOU'LL LIKE WHAT YOU SEE ..andgrowing,everyweek! Daily News Facebook fans receive special posts of breaking news, sports, weather and road closures, clicking right to full stories and photos published on redbluffdailynews.com ... Tehama County's most-visited local website ... things that fans want to know about, sooner rather than later! 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