Did Debbie Reynolds Ever Marry Again
Originally published March 26, 1960.
In the 1950s, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher were one of Hollywood'south hottest couples — until Fisher had an affair with Elizabeth Taylor. In this article from March 26, 1960, Reynolds talked about how her highly publicized divorce affected her personally and professionally.
From its outset, the courting and marriage of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher was proclaimed "The Sweetest Dear Story Always Told." So it was only natural that the shattering of the Fisher-Reynolds spun-sugar dream castle was as screamingly publicized.
The fact that the darling fiddling couple had become a triangle was regarded in certain circles as the biggest domestic tragedy since Douglas Fairbanks Sr. parted from America's Sweetheart, Mary Pickford. The Fisher-Reynolds split reached its climax when Debbie agreed—after a twelvemonth of hesitation—to a quick divorce and so her husband could embark upon his 2nd marital venture, this time with Elizabeth Taylor. Even so, notwithstanding, the triangle refused to go abroad. In terms of cold, hard cash, the ordeal made the ii ladies involved far more than valuable at the box office. The price tag of the discarded married woman leaped to $125,000 a picture, and then to $250,000. The sum demanded for the services of the new Mrs. Fisher zoomed from $500,000 to $750,000—then to $1,000,000. Miss Reynolds soon signed a like contract, earning $1,000, 000 for three television appearances.
Eddie Fisher on the other hand, has temporarily fallen from the high estate of having his own TV show, to playing the night-gild excursion and doing a role in Yard-G-Yard'south Butterfield 8, a vehicle which also stars Miss Taylor, while talks are existence held about a new TV evidence for him.
During the fourth dimension when Debbie and Eddie, once the nation's most publicized newlyweds, were engaged in becoming the nation'southward about highly publicized divorcees, Fisher and Miss Taylor did most of the talking. I'd read diverse statements attributed to Debbie, but information technology was my thought that if I could get her to requite me some of her ideas nigh the a air at first mitt, it would still exist newsworthy.
I remembered a photo of her taken a few days after the news broke that she and Eddie were having difficulties. I mentioned that photo to her now. I said, "You lot looked like a teen-ager someone had just kicked in the stomach."
"I know the picture y'all hateful," she said. "I remember it very well. Information technology was taken after I had my children out for an airing, and when I came home in that location were a lot of strangers in my house— reporters and photographers. I didn't even know what had happened. And so they told me that my spousal relationship seemed to be definitely on the rocks, but I still didn't become information technology. I recollect saying, 'It's unbelievable that you tin alive happily with a man and not know he doesn't love you." When they took that photo, I had just finished changing my babies. I wasn't thinking about how I looked. My mind was completely on some other bailiwick. When I saw that picture, I was surprised to run across a couple of diaper pins still fastened to my blouse."
"How old were you when you and Eddie were married?" I asked.
"Twenty-three." she said. "I had lived at home with my mother until then, so I was extremely inexperienced. I had to grow up very fast. Likewise fast. I don't think that'southward the all-time way to abound up. I recollect it's the hardest way. But y'all certainly tin learn that fashion, and information technology'southward very thorough."
What she said next sounded like something she had said to herself many, many times—and that she would say it many limes more. "As long as you tin accept your experiences and digest them and not let them make y'all bitter or cynical or presume that life is always going to be that manner, you lot'll be all right. But if yous allow them to make yous cynical and bitter…" Her voice trailed off.
Strength of Character
I said I thought information technology would have been like shooting fish in a barrel for her to become biting. "I wouldn't
permit me be," she said. "All my life I've hated people who complain about their knee-aches or their backaches. All they had to do was look around them to come across people having it more difficult than they. If you consider the road a lot of other people travel, you tin say to yourself, "Mine isn't that crude!'"
I said to her, "In spite of all the stress, your statements to the press always seemed audio and sensible." I idea of 1 statement of hers in particular. She had simply finished shooting It Started With a Kiss in Spain, and on her fashion home friends in California reached her on the long-distance telephone and repeated to her some of the remarks made during an impromptu press conference held in Eddie Fisher's dressing room in a Las Vegas hold.
Some of Elizabeth Taylor'south remarks &mash; she was also present — were reported to Debbie every bit follows: "Eddie and I intend to travel and see as much of the world equally we tin can, and we would similar to travel as man and wife… Nosotros respect public opinion, merely y'all can't live by information technology. If we lived by it, Eddie and I would have been terribly unhappy through all this. But I can shamelessly say that we have been terribly happy… I am literally rising in a higher place information technology."
When questioned about the possibility that Debbie might refuse a divorce, Elizabeth Taylor had answered, "At get-go Debbie was very much hurt, merely I think at present the hurt has left and she volition consent to Eddie getting a divorce here."
"When I came domicile from Europe, people kept asking me, 'Will yous give Eddie a divorce or won't you?' said Debbie. "It wasn't a new question. Eddie had asked me earlier, and I had said no. Only when I was coming home on that plane and I knew there would be people waiting for me at the aerodrome. I prepared a last statement on the subject. Information technology was this: 'The position in which I am placed makes it necessary for me to give my consent, but they would accept gotten married anyway.'"
She stopped for a moment. "Seems like all I did concluding year was prepare terminal statements. It was a very pressured year for me. In that one year I had plenty emotions to wear me out."
"You came through all right," I said.
"If I did, perchance it was because I never told an untruth," she said. "Whatever I said about my emotions was honest. What I felt must have been obvious: I tin can't hide what I experience, I'd exist better off if I could. For that matter, I'd be better if I didn't experience then much.
"I tried to do everything and remember of everything as I will 5 or ten years from at present. If I had talked or acted every bit I felt at the moment, I might accept said and washed wrong things. Unfortunately our situation became public property. If information technology hadn't, I recollect the iii of united states could have dealt with it in a mannerly way, I would probably accept said no to a divorce, and perhaps it all would have worked out differently. Simply considering it was dumped in the public'south lap past the other people involved, I had no choice."
I said, "Some of those who have watched yous whirling around of late with an 'I-don't-care' air take told me, 'Debbie seems to be having herself a ball. She must be having a cracking time being a available daughter once more.'"
She said, "Whether what happens to you is for the best or the worst depends on what you make of it. You can be miserable or y'all can be happy, I think I'm having a great time now, and I think I'll go on right on doing that, considering I have so much to be happy about. Before I was married,
I wanted children. Now I have ii children. They are all anybody could ever want. I have a lovely dwelling house; my professional career is looking up, I tin can travel everywhere, and I have very dear friends. And then inside I'm happy. I actually am, but information technology has taken time to acquire that philosophy."
This article and other features about the stars of Tinseltown can be found in the Post's Special Collector's Edition, The Golden Historic period of Hollywood. This edition tin can exist ordered hither.
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