Two Days & Two Deaths: Iconic Hollywood Actress Passes Away Just Days After Her Actress Daughter Died

Hollywood star of the 1952 classic, Singin' in the Rain, passes away a day after the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher.

Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher

 

Debbie Reynolds had just one day to mourn the death of her daughter before she, too, died.

 

Unlike daughter Carrie Fisher's death, details of what caused Reynolds' death remain a mystery.

 

Reynolds, 84, died Wednesday, her son Todd Fisher said. "She spoke to me this morning and said she missed Carrie," Todd Fisher told CNN on Wednesday. "She's with Carrie now."

 

He did not give a cause of death. Reynolds had complained of breathing problems, an unidentified source told the Los Angeles Times.

 

Reynolds was one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1950s and 1960s. Born Mary Frances Reynolds, she was a bubbly singer, dancer and actress who starred in "Singin' in the Rain" and "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."

 

But despite her star power, she treated everyone with respect, her publicist Ed Lozzi said.

"The people that worked for her ... she was just so respectful and caring and thoughtful to her publicists and her agents," Lozzi told CNN. "A lot of stars we worked for were not. She was special that way." 

 

She married then famously divorced singing sensation Eddie Fisher, who left Reynolds for Elizabeth Taylor in 1959. 

 

Meanwhile, Fisher, who catapulted to worldwide stardom as rebel warrior Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, had earlier died in Los Angeles on Tuesday, four days after suffering a heart attack on a transatlantic flight.

 

Media reports said Reynolds had been at her son's house to discuss funeral arrangements when she became ill.