Debbie Reynolds (born April 1, 1932) is an American actress, singer, and dancer.
Initially signed at age sixteen by Warner Bros., Reynolds' career got off to a slow start. When her contract was not renewed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) gave her a small but significant part in the film Three Little Words (1950), then signed her to a seven-year contract. In her next film, Two Weeks with Love (1950), she had a hit with the song "Aba Daba Honeymoon". However, it was her first leading role, in Singin' in the Rain (1952), that set her on the path to fame. By the mid 1950s, she was a major star.
Other notable successes include Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), in which her rendering of the song "Tammy" reached number one on the music charts; and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She continues to perform successfully on stage, television and film to the present day.
Reynolds' first marriage, to popular singer Eddie Fisher, produced a son and a daughter, actress/author Carrie Fisher, but ended in divorce in 1959 when Fisher and her former (and later) friend Elizabeth Taylor fell in love. Her second and third marriages also ended in divorce, each time ruining her financially.
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The story of 'Elizabeth Taylor (I)' (qv)'s rise to stardom, beginning in Los Angeles 1942. Her dominating mother has decided that her daughter must become a star - no matter what others or Elizabeth herself think. Assisted by 'Hedda Hopper' (qv), she gets a part in _Lassie Come Home (1943)_ (qv). She becomes a child star, raised by her studio. Growing up, she has several love-affairs - and several divorces, since her husbands can't accept being married to a Hollywood icon.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, acting, actress, alcoholism, based-on-novel, behind-the-scenes, celebrity, character-name-in-title
She earned two Oscars. She survived eight marriages. She overcame battles with pills, booze and food. And she never left the spotlight.
A beautiful star. A legendary life.
Richard Burton: Miss Taylor, has anyone ever told you, what a very pretty girl you are?
Richard Burton: I taught her about beer, she taught me about Bulgari.
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A pop singer has been receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires a bodyguard known for his good work. The bodyguard ruffles the singer's feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary. The bodyguard is haunted by the fact that he was on Reagan's secret service staff but wasn't there to prevent the attack by Hinckley. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home.
Keywords: 1990s, academy-award, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, adultery, african-american, african-american-music, african-american-woman, ambulance, anger, assassination
Never let her out of your sight. Never let your guard down. Never fall in love.
Rachel: [Skip is nervously prompting Rachel to return to her seat before her award category is presented] I'm moving as fast as I can, Skip, why don't you go twitch somewhere else?
Frank: You're too old to be this naive !
Rachel: You afraid I might get picked off in my snazzy running suit?::Frank: No, I'm afraid that I might have to jog with you.
Rachel: So, can we get you anything?::Frank: Yeah, orange juice.::Rachel: Straight?
Frank: Aw, Christ, I told you why! I - I can't protect you like this.::Rachel: So that's it for me? That's it?::Frank: Yeah.::Rachel: Well, I don't believe it!::Frank: Well, you can live with it, or you can fire me.::Rachel: But I can't fuck you.
Rachel: And you're ready to die for me?::Frank: It's the job.::Rachel: And you'd do it? Why?::Frank: I can't sing.
Rachel: [sees her son, Fletcher, getting into a boat] You know, Fletcher can't swim very well.::Herb Farmer: I guess he'd better stay in the boat, then.
Frank: [after Nicki kisses him] You're a lovely woman.::Nicki Marron: But you don't want me. I'm surprised. Thorough fellow like yourself. Why stop at one sister when you could have fucked them both?::Frank: I make my mistakes.::Nicki Marron: But you didn't say no to the boss.
Sy Spector: Bill said you used to be with the Secret Service.::Frank: That's right.::Sy Spector: Ever guard the main man?::Frank: I was two years with Carter, four with Reagan.::Sy Spector: Reagan got shot!::Frank: Not on my shift.
Frank: [shakes the weathered intercom speaker] Frank Farmer to see Miss Marron.::Intercom voice: [static hiss] What?::Frank: Alexander Graham Bell, to see Miss Marron.::Intercom voice: You got an appointment?::Frank: Yeah... the atomic number of zinc is thirty.::Intercom voice: All right. [gate opens to let Frank enter]
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Chuck Redwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not to begin with...
Keywords: gambling, love
All the dazzle, darlings and delights of Las Vegas...in M-G-M's gold mine of entertainment!
MGM's gold mine of entertainment in Cinemascope and color!
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Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life.
Keywords: diving, jilted-bride, love, marine, navy-doctor, plumber, seamstress, swimming, tango, train
WAVE Instructor: Young! Turn in your water wings!
(Carl Belew and W.S. Stevenson)
They say you've found somebody new
But that won't stop my lovin' you
I just can't let you walk away
Forget the love I have for you
Guess I could find somebody too
But I don't wan't no one but you
How could you leave without regret
Am I that easy to forget
Before you leave be sure you find
You want her love much more than mine
'Cause I'll just say we've never met
If I'm that easy to forget
Guess I could find somebody new
But I don't want no one but you
I couldn't leave without regret
Your not that easy to forget
Before you leave be sure you find
You want her love much more than mine
'Cause I'll just say we've never met
If I'm that easy to forget
Billy McCoy was a musical boy
On the Cruiser Alabama he was there at the piana
Like a fish down in the sea, he would rattle off some harmony
Every night out on the ocean he would get that raggy motion
Start that syncopated motion lovingly
No one could sleep way out there on the deep
When Billy cut loose out at sea
(release)
Each fish and worm... begins to twist & turn
The ship goes in a dip and does a corkscrew turn
You see that smoke so black sneak from that old smokestack
It's floatin' right up to heaven and it won't come back
Now here and there you'll see a stool and a chair
A-slippin' 'round the cabin sayin' I don't care
Then the hammock starts a-swingin' & the bell begins a-ringin'
While he's sittin' at that piana... there on the Alabama
Playin' the Oceana Roll
England and Spain, it was always the same
He'd be there at the piana on the Cruiser Alabama
Every mornin' noon & nite, he would keep it up with all his might
Every time he started playin', all the boys would start a-swayin'
Everyone would keep on sayin' Don't You Stop
Sailors take care, oh sailors beware
For bill will play on 'til you drop
Release
(Arthur Fields and Walter Donovan)
Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab
Means monk I love but you
Baba daba dab
In monkey talk means chimp I love you too
Then the big baboon one night in June
He married them and very soon
They went upon their aba daba honeymoon
Way down in the congo land
Live a happy chimpanzee
She loved a monkey with a long tail
Lordy how she loved him
Each night he would find her there
Swingin' in the coconut tree
And the monkey gay
At the break of day
Like to hear he chimpie say
Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab
Said the chimpie to the monk
Baba daba daba daba daba daba dab
Said the monkey to the chimp
All night long they'd chatter away
All day long they were happy and gay
Swingin' and singin' in their
Honky tonky way
Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab
Means monk I love but you
Baba daba dab in monkey talk
Means chimp I love you too
Then the big baboon one night in June
He married them and very soon
They went upon their aba daba honeymoon
One night they were made man and wife
And now they cry this is the life
Since they came from their aba daba honeymoon
Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab
Said the chimpie to the monk
Baba daba daba daba daba daba dab
Said the monkey to the chimp
All night long they'd chatter away
All day long they were happy and gay
Swingin' and singin' in their
Honky tonky way
Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab
Means monk I love but you
Baba daba dab in monkey talk
Means chimp I love you too
Then the big baboon one night in June
He married them and very soon
They went upon their aba daba honeymoon
Then the big baboon one night in June
He married them and very soon
They went upon their aba daba honey
Aba daba aba daba
Aba daba honeymoon...
Dominique - Lyrics from “The Singing Nun” (Movie lyrics) sung by
Debbie Reynolds
Dominique, nique, nique I will tell of Dominique
His goodness to acclaim
And I pray the song I sing
Will some simple pleasure bring
That the world shall know his name!
I will tell of Dominique as I sing this little song
And when I sing the chorus all the world will sing along!
Dominique, nique, nique it was good Saint Dominique
He lived for you and me
From his labors long ago
Came a better world I know! And his love shall always be!
“Though I’m poor”, said Dominique as he spoke unto the Lord,
“I will be your humble servent and your love is my reward”!
Dominique, nique, nique I will follow Dominique
His burdens will I share
For his courage will I pray
His teachings to obey! His words shall be my prayer!
By the kindness of his heart and the labor of his hand
He brought love and understanding as he wandered through the land!
Dominique, nique, nique I will tell of Dominique
His goodness to acclaim
And I pray the song I sing
Will some simple pleasure bring! All the world shall know his name!
Dominique the mighty warrior was a soldier of the Lord
His armor was devotion and the Gospel was his sword!
Dominique, nique, nique it was good Saint Dominique
He lived for you and me
From his labors long ago
Came a better world I know! And his love shall always be!
Through the blazing heat of summer and the chill of winter snow
I will follow Dominique! In his footsteps I will go!
Dominique, nique, nique I will follow Dominique
His burdens will I share
For his courage will I pray
(Carl Belew and W.S. Stevenson)
They say you've found somebody new
But that won't stop my lovin' you
I just can't let you walk away
Forget the love I have for you
Guess I could find somebody too
But I don't wan't no one but you
How could you leave without regret
Am I that easy to forget
Before you leave be sure you find
You want her love much more than mine
'Cause I'll just say we've never met
If I'm that easy to forget
Guess I could find somebody new
But I don't want no one but you
I couldn't leave without regret
Your not that easy to forget
Before you leave be sure you find
You want her love much more than mine
'Cause I'll just say we've never met
All I do is dream of you
The whole night through
With the dawn, I still go on
And dream of you
You're every thought
You're everything
You're every song I ever sing
Summer, winter, autumn and spring.
And were there more
Than twenty-four hours a day,
They'd be spent in sweet content
Dreamin' away
skies are gray
skies are blue
Morning, noon and nighttime too
All I do the whole day through
Is dream of you
All I do the whole day throughIs dream of you.
It's cat's meow!
All I do the whole day through
(Jay Livingston and Ray Evans)
[From "Tammy And The Bachelor"]
I hear the cottonwoods whisp'rin' above
Tammy! Tammy! Tammy's in love!
The ole hootie owl hootie-hoo's to the dove
Tammy! Tammy! Tammy's in love!
Does my darling feel what I feel
When he comes near?
My heart beats so joyfully
You'd think that he could hear!
Wish I knew if he knew what I'm dreaming of!
Dominique - Lyrics from “The Singing Nun” (Movie lyrics) sung by
Debbie Reynolds
Dominique, nique, nique I will tell of Dominique
His goodness to acclaim
And I pray the song I sing
Will some simple pleasure bring
That the world shall know his name!
I will tell of Dominique as I sing this little song
And when I sing the chorus all the world will sing along!
Dominique, nique, nique it was good Saint Dominique
He lived for you and me
From his labors long ago
Came a better world I know! And his love shall always be!
“Though I’m poor”, said Dominique as he spoke unto the Lord,
“I will be your humble servent and your love is my reward”!
Dominique, nique, nique I will follow Dominique
His burdens will I share
For his courage will I pray
His teachings to obey! His words shall be my prayer!
By the kindness of his heart and the labor of his hand
He brought love and understanding as he wandered through the land!
Dominique, nique, nique I will tell of Dominique
His goodness to acclaim
And I pray the song I sing
Will some simple pleasure bring! All the world shall know his name!
Dominique the mighty warrior was a soldier of the Lord
His armor was devotion and the Gospel was his sword!
Dominique, nique, nique it was good Saint Dominique
He lived for you and me
From his labors long ago
Came a better world I know! And his love shall always be!
Through the blazing heat of summer and the chill of winter snow
I will follow Dominique! In his footsteps I will go!
Dominique, nique, nique I will follow Dominique
His burdens will I share
For his courage will I pray