DEBBIE REYNOLDS
Debbie Reynolds (born Mary Frances Reynolds; April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer, businesswoman, film historian, humanitarian, and mother of the actress and writer Carrie Fisher. Her breakout role was her first leading role, as Kathy Selden in Singin’ in the Rain (1952). Other successes include Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), in which her performance of the song “Tammy” reached number one on the Billboard music charts. She starred in The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), a biographical film about the famously boisterous Molly Brown. Her performance as Brown earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1969, she starred on television in The Debbie Reynolds Show, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. In 1979, she founded the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in North Hollywood, which still operates today. At the turn of the millennium, Reynolds reached a new younger generation with her role as Aggie Cromwell in Disney’s Halloweentown series. In 2016, she received the Academy Awards Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. (More from Wikipedia)
Surprisingly, the Tamla Records label was named after the Debbie Reynolds song “Tammy” that was a hit from the film Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) – needless to say, “Tammy” is not at all an R&B song – and Berry Gordy originally wanted to name the label “Tammy Records”. Outside the U.S., the label was named Tamla Motown Records.
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