“Star Wars,” released in 1977, turned her overnight into an international movie star. The film, written and directed by George Lucas, traveled around the world, breaking box-office records. It proved to be the first installment of a blockbuster series whose vivid, even preposterous characters — living “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” as the opening sequence announced — became pop culture legends and the progenitors of a merchandising bonanza.
Ms.
Fisher established Princess Leia as a damsel who could very much deal
with her own distress, whether facing down the villainy of the dreaded
Darth Vader or the romantic interests of the roguish smuggler Han Solo.
Wielding
blaster pistols, piloting futuristic vehicles and, to her occasional
chagrin, wearing strange hairdos and a revealing metal bikini, she
reprised the role in three more films — “The Empire Strikes Back” in
1980, “Return of the Jedi” in 1983 and, 32 years later, “Star Wars: The
Force Awakens,” by which time Leia had become a hard-bitten general.
Lucasfilm
said on Tuesday that Ms. Fisher had completed her work in an
as-yet-untitled eighth episode of the main “Star Wars” saga, which is
scheduled to be released in December 2017.
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[12/28/16] Debbie Reynolds, the Oscar-nominated singer-actress who was the mother of late actress Carrie Fisher, has died at Cedars-Sinai hospital. She was 84.
“She wanted to be with Carrie,” her son Todd Fisher told Variety.
She was taken to the hospital from Todd Fisher’s Beverly Hills house Wednesday after a suspected stroke, the day after her daughter Carrie Fisher died.
The vivacious blonde, who had a close but sometimes tempestuous relationship with her daughter, was one of MGM’s principal stars of the 1950s and ’60s in such films as the 1952 classic “Singin’ in the Rain” and 1964’s “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” for which she received an Oscar nomination as best actress.
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Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds to be buried together
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[12/28/16] Debbie Reynolds, the Oscar-nominated singer-actress who was the mother of late actress Carrie Fisher, has died at Cedars-Sinai hospital. She was 84.
“She wanted to be with Carrie,” her son Todd Fisher told Variety.
She was taken to the hospital from Todd Fisher’s Beverly Hills house Wednesday after a suspected stroke, the day after her daughter Carrie Fisher died.
The vivacious blonde, who had a close but sometimes tempestuous relationship with her daughter, was one of MGM’s principal stars of the 1950s and ’60s in such films as the 1952 classic “Singin’ in the Rain” and 1964’s “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” for which she received an Oscar nomination as best actress.
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Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds to be buried together
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