Unsinkable
When I read the optimistic ending of my last memoir now, I can't believe how naive I was when I wrote it. In Unsinkable, I look back at the many years since then, and share my memories of a film career that took me from the Miss Burbank Contest of 1948 to the work I did in 2012...To paraphrase Bette Davis: Fasten your seatbelts, I've had a bumpy ride. In the closing pages of her 1988 autobiography Debbie: My Life, Debbie Reynolds wrote about finding her brave, loyal, and loving new husband. After two broken marriages, this third, she believed, was her lucky charm. But within a few years, Debbie discovered that he had betrayed her emotionally and financially, nearly destroying her life. A prelude to her final volume of memoir, Make ‘Em Laugh, Unsinkable shines a spotlight on the resilient woman whose talent and passion for her work endured for more than six decades. In her engaging, down-to-earth voice, Debbie shares private details about her man and money troubles, including building and losing both her Las Vegas dream hotel and her treasured Hollywood memorabilia collection. Yet no matter how difficult the problems, the show always goes on. Debbie also invites us into the close circle of her family life, speaking with deep affection and honesty about her relationships with her children, Carrie and Todd Fisher. She looks back at her life as an actress during Hollywood's Golden Age - including her lifelong friendship with (and years-long estrangement from) the legendary Elizabeth Taylor. Here, too, are stories that never reached the tabloids about numerous celebrities including Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra, Mick Jagger, Gene Kelly, and many more. She takes us on a guided tour through her own film history with delightful, often hilarious behind-the-scenes anecdotes about every production in which she was involved. Frank and forthright, featuring dozens of previously unseen photos from her personal collection, Unsinkable is a poignant testimony to one woman’s undefeatable optimism. It is a revealing portrait of a woman whose determination is an inspiration. ‘My mother has an amazing memory. She doesn’t seem to remember things utterly and all at once. Her recollections can come gradually, or they’ve been known to come to her intermittently, even late at night and suddenly—maybe on a plane, when entering an elevator, deciding not to exercise, not to go to bed yet, to spend time reading, watching TV, or returning calls, while eating or alone. The bottom line is that she’s never quite gotten to that bottom line.’ – Carrie Fisher
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Unsinkable
When I read the optimistic ending of my last memoir now, I can't believe how naive I was when I wrote it. In Unsinkable, I look back at the many years since then, and share my memories of a film career that took me from the Miss Burbank Contest of 1948 to the work I did in 2012...To paraphrase Bette Davis: Fasten your seatbelts, I've had a bumpy ride. In the closing pages of her 1988 autobiography Debbie: My Life, Debbie Reynolds wrote about finding her brave, loyal, and loving new husband. After two broken marriages, this third, she believed, was her lucky charm. But within a few years, Debbie discovered that he had betrayed her emotionally and financially, nearly destroying her life. A prelude to her final volume of memoir, Make ‘Em Laugh, Unsinkable shines a spotlight on the resilient woman whose talent and passion for her work endured for more than six decades. In her engaging, down-to-earth voice, Debbie shares private details about her man and money troubles, including building and losing both her Las Vegas dream hotel and her treasured Hollywood memorabilia collection. Yet no matter how difficult the problems, the show always goes on. Debbie also invites us into the close circle of her family life, speaking with deep affection and honesty about her relationships with her children, Carrie and Todd Fisher. She looks back at her life as an actress during Hollywood's Golden Age - including her lifelong friendship with (and years-long estrangement from) the legendary Elizabeth Taylor. Here, too, are stories that never reached the tabloids about numerous celebrities including Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra, Mick Jagger, Gene Kelly, and many more. She takes us on a guided tour through her own film history with delightful, often hilarious behind-the-scenes anecdotes about every production in which she was involved. Frank and forthright, featuring dozens of previously unseen photos from her personal collection, Unsinkable is a poignant testimony to one woman’s undefeatable optimism. It is a revealing portrait of a woman whose determination is an inspiration. ‘My mother has an amazing memory. She doesn’t seem to remember things utterly and all at once. Her recollections can come gradually, or they’ve been known to come to her intermittently, even late at night and suddenly—maybe on a plane, when entering an elevator, deciding not to exercise, not to go to bed yet, to spend time reading, watching TV, or returning calls, while eating or alone. The bottom line is that she’s never quite gotten to that bottom line.’ – Carrie Fisher
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When I read the optimistic ending of my last memoir now, I can't believe how naive I was when I wrote it. In Unsinkable, I look back at the many years since then, and share my memories of a film career that took me from the Miss Burbank Contest of 1948 to the work I did in 2012...To paraphrase Bette Davis: Fasten your seatbelts, I've had a bumpy ride. In the closing pages of her 1988 autobiography Debbie: My Life, Debbie Reynolds wrote about finding her brave, loyal, and loving new husband. After two broken marriages, this third, she believed, was her lucky charm. But within a few years, Debbie discovered that he had betrayed her emotionally and financially, nearly destroying her life. A prelude to her final volume of memoir, Make ‘Em Laugh, Unsinkable shines a spotlight on the resilient woman whose talent and passion for her work endured for more than six decades. In her engaging, down-to-earth voice, Debbie shares private details about her man and money troubles, including building and losing both her Las Vegas dream hotel and her treasured Hollywood memorabilia collection. Yet no matter how difficult the problems, the show always goes on. Debbie also invites us into the close circle of her family life, speaking with deep affection and honesty about her relationships with her children, Carrie and Todd Fisher. She looks back at her life as an actress during Hollywood's Golden Age - including her lifelong friendship with (and years-long estrangement from) the legendary Elizabeth Taylor. Here, too, are stories that never reached the tabloids about numerous celebrities including Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra, Mick Jagger, Gene Kelly, and many more. She takes us on a guided tour through her own film history with delightful, often hilarious behind-the-scenes anecdotes about every production in which she was involved. Frank and forthright, featuring dozens of previously unseen photos from her personal collection, Unsinkable is a poignant testimony to one woman’s undefeatable optimism. It is a revealing portrait of a woman whose determination is an inspiration. ‘My mother has an amazing memory. She doesn’t seem to remember things utterly and all at once. Her recollections can come gradually, or they’ve been known to come to her intermittently, even late at night and suddenly—maybe on a plane, when entering an elevator, deciding not to exercise, not to go to bed yet, to spend time reading, watching TV, or returning calls, while eating or alone. The bottom line is that she’s never quite gotten to that bottom line.’ – Carrie Fisher
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