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EW’s Lynette Expense recalls equal finish 2015 negotiating period with storybook actress Debbie Reynolds, who died Wed at rendering age help 84, attack day afterwards her girl Carrie Fisherman died at the same height age 60.
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Debbie Reynolds' big regret: Never building a Hollywood museum
Debbie Reynolds spent a great deal of her life amassing one of the largest collections of Hollywood memorabilia — most of which she bought for a reported $600,000 from MGM’s infamous prop and costume auction in 1970. And while her collection was packed with invaluable items from the golden age of Hollywood — like the Rat Pack tuxedoes, Elizabeth Taylor’s headdress from Cleopatra, and Charlton Heston’s tunic from Ben Hur — Reynolds, who died Wednesday at the age of 84, was never able to realize her dream of opening a Hollywood museum.
“She tried for many years,” said Joe Maddalena of the Calabasas, California-based Profiles in History, an auctioneer and dealer of Hollywood memorabilia. “This collection was her life. She tried for many years to get a museum — a casino in Vegas, a museum upstairs at the Kodak Theatre that didn’t work, a building in Tennessee that’s now an empty shell. Debbie was like, ‘I’m done. I’ve tried for years to convince Hollywood to build a museum and nobody would step up. I can’t keep fighting this battle.'”
In 2011 and 2014, Reynolds and Maddalena sold off most of her massive collection. Every day of the auction, Maddalena recalls, Reynolds was there with her daughter, C
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Honoring Debbie Reynolds for Preserving a Piece of Hollywood
The unsinkable Debbie Reynolds has spent decades amassing costumes from the films of Tinseltown’s Golden Age. For her dedication to the preservation of film history, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising honored her with its Crystal Star Award on Saturday. Proceeds from the black-tie dinner held on the institute’s downtown campus will support a scholarship in her name and the Thalians Mental Heath Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
The event also marked the opening of the Reynolds collection of more than 75 costumes from 30 films, including “Gigi,” “Hello Dolly” and her own from “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” and “Singing in the Rain.”
The exhibition is the brainchild of Thalian stalwarts Dick McInnes and Ruta Lee and will remain on view through May 3 adjacent to FIDM’s annual display of the costumes nominated for this year’s Oscar.
“At first, Debbie was reluctant,” said Lee. “She’s very protective of the collection. Costumes have disappeared in the past, but she knew that they would be in good hands.”
Reynolds flew in from a film location in Vancouver, Canada, for the occasion. Salman Rushdie arrived with Reynolds’ daughter, Carrie Fisher, and son, Todd Fisher. The heavy rains kept Elizabeth Taylo