Boys by Debbie Reynolds on Film: The Unsinkable Molly Brown (MGM). Put the two books together and they'd make a first class TV four-parter, more fascinating than most of the fiction churned out. Todays episode spotlights the late great Debbie Reynolds who passed away December. You don't have to be a fan to find this a remarkable story. The final part is a job-by-job CV, in the form of brief descriptions of her film/tv work and anecdotes which make it equally readable. Giving too much away? I think not when you read the details of how again, she battled through. One can only shake the head in wonderment on reading how this remarkable and admirably resilient woman was, once again bankrupted by a husband - only this time ruthlessly, by a man who finlaly admitted that he'd only married her for her money. In fact the first 180 pages take over from her previous autobiography, Debbie, which I still have - and I read them in one sitting, as it's a REAL PAGE-TURNER, with only the odd reference to her earlier life, in order to put the later events in context. It may ( as this person suggests) have been written for money, but what writer doesn't? And I've no problem with that or the contents. Over the decades, she acted in dozens of movies and TV shows, and on Broadway she did voice work for animated. I really cannot understand the one reviewer who maintained that there is nothing new in this book. Reynolds was nominated for an Oscar for The Unsinkable Molly Brown, from 1964.
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