Debbie Reynolds was one of the biggest stars of the final years of Hollywood’s golden age, entering into the old-school studio system at the age of 16. Yet after five decades gracing movie screens across the world, she passes away at 84, seemingly from heartbreak. News outlets reported that the famed actress couldn’t handle the sudden loss of her daughter, Carrie Fisher, whose death occurred just a day before. Amid all the success, both mother and daughter were intertwined in a world that Carrie once referred to as “Hollywood inbreeding”. Filled with some of early Hollywood’s biggest celebrity scandals and financial disasters, Debbie and Carrie would enter separate roller-coaster rides of tragedy and triumph. By the end of their lives, the mother daughter duo would jointly be worth over $100 million. Yet while their family quietly mourned the loss of two generations, Disney would be searching for a way to bring the Star Wars princess back from the dead.
