Frontier Hotel Norm Crosby Debbie Reynolds Signed Autographed Vintage Postcard

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Frontier Hotel Norm Crosby Debbie Reynolds Signed Autographed Vintage Postcard
This is from Frontier Hotel. This Hotel Casino opened in 1942 and changed names several times before closing 2007. It was located on hwy 91....On The Strip.
Debbie Reynolds
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Debbie Reynolds
Reynolds in 1986
Born
Mary Frances Reynolds
April 1, 1932
(
1932-04-01
)
(age 79)
El Paso
,
Texas
, United States
Occupation
Actress, dancer, singer
Years active
1948-present
Spouse
•
Eddie Fisher
(1955–59, divorced)
• Harry Karl
(1960–73, divorced)
• Richard Hamlett
(1984–96, divorced)
Website
debbiereynolds.com
Debbie Reynolds
(born April 1, 1932-2016) is an
American
actress, singer, and dancer.
She was initially signed at age 16 by
Warner Bros.
, but her 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 rendition 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.
Her personal life has not gone as well. Her 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 disastrously, each time ruining her financially.
She is a noted collector of
film memorabilia
, beginning with the landmark 1972 MGM auction. In June 2011, unable to find a suitable home for her large collection, she began auctioning it off.
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Early life
She was born
Mary Frances Reynolds
in
El Paso
,
Texas
, the second child of Maxine N. (
née
Harmon; 1913–1999) and Raymond Francis Reynolds (1903–1986), who was a carpenter for the
Southern Pacific Railroad
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Her parents were of Irish ancestry.
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Reynolds was a
Girl Scout
and a troop leader (a scholarship in her name is offered to high-school age Girl Scouts). Her family moved to
Burbank
,
California
, in 1939, and she was raised in a strict
Nazarene
faith. At age 16, while a student at Burbank's
John Burroughs High School
, Reynolds won the Miss Burbank
Beauty Contest
, a contract with Warner Bros., and acquired a new first name.
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Career
(From left)
Barbara Ruick
,
Bob Fosse
, Reynolds and
Bobby Van
in
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
(1953).
Reynolds regularly appeared in
movie musicals
during the 1950s and had several hit records during the period. Her song "
Aba Daba Honeymoon
" (featured in the film
Two Weeks with Love
(1950) as a duet with
Carleton Carpenter
) was a top-three hit in 1951. Her most high-profile film role was in
Singin' in the Rain
(1952) as Kathy Selden. In
Bundle of Joy
(1956) she appeared with her then-husband,
Eddie Fisher
.
Her recording of the song "
Tammy
" (from her film
Tammy and the Bachelor
(1957)) earned her a
gold record
,
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and was the best-selling
single
by a female vocalist in 1957. It was number one for five weeks on the
Billboard
pop charts. In the movie (the first of the
Tammy
film series
), she co-starred with
Leslie Nielsen
.
In 1959, Reynolds recorded her first album for Dot Records, simply called
Debbie
, which included her own selection of twelve standards including "S’posin'", "Moonglow," "Mean To Me" and "Time After Time."
Bing Crosby
paid tribute to Reynolds in the sleeve notes accompanying the album thus:
Someone recently said, and with reasonable accuracy I would think, that good singers make good actors. Evidence in support of this belief is available in the recent performances of
Sinatra
and
Martin
, for instance, but I would like to put forth also the proposition that the reverse is quite true: good actors make good singers. Assuming they can carry a tune. We all know that Debbie is better than a good actress — she’s VERY good, and we all know she can sing with a lilt and a listenable quality that’s genuinely pleasant and agreeable. Witness “Tammy”. It was small surprise to me then that when I listened to this beautiful album she has etched for Dot, I found myself captivated and enchanted. Quite obviously Debbie had spent a great deal of time selecting the songs to be included, because she’s made them her own, and invested them with a sincerity that’s inescapable — of contrasting moods to be sure, but the moods are there, and to me, mighty effective. And that, mes amis, is artistry.
Reynolds also scored two other top-25
Billboard
hits with "
A Very Special Love
" (1958) and "
Am I That Easy to Forget
" (1960) — a
pop-music
version of a
country-music
hit made famous by both
songwriters
Carl Belew
(in 1959),
Skeeter Davis
(in 1960), and several years later by singer
Engelbert Humperdinck
. She has released several albums of both her vintage performances and her later recordings.
Marquee listing Reynolds's world premiere at the
Riviera Hotel
, Las Vegas, December 1962
During these years, she also headlined in major
Las Vegas
showrooms
.
Her starring role in
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
(1964) led to a nomination for the
Academy Award for Best Actress
. She then portrayed
Jeanine Deckers
in
The Singing Nun
(1966).
In what Reynolds has called the "stupidest mistake of my entire career",
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she made headlines in 1970 after instigating a fight with the NBC television network over cigarette advertising on her
eponymous television series
; NBC cancelled the show.
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Reynolds continues to make appearances in film and television. She played
Helen Chappel Hackett
's mother, Deedee Chappel, on an episode of "
Wings
" entitled, "If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother," which originally aired on November 22, 1994.
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From 1999 to its 2006
series finale
, she played
Grace Adler
's ditzy mother, Bobbi Adler, on the NBC
sitcom
Will & Grace
(1998–2006), which earned her an
Emmy Award
nomination for
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
in
2000
. She also plays a recurring role in the
Disney Channel Original Movie
Halloweentown
film series
as Aggie Cromwell. Reynolds made a guest appearance as a presenter at the
69th Academy Awards
in 1997.
Reynolds appeared in her
West End
show
Debbie Reynolds: Alive and Fabulous.
In June 2010, her publicist
Edward Lozzi
secured her a role as a regular columnist for the weekly paper
Globe
,
replacing
Ivana Trump
in answering reader queries.
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Awards and nominations
Reynolds won the
National Board of Review
Award for Best Supporting Actress
for her role in
The Catered Affair
(1956).
She has received various nominations for awards including: an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
(1964), a
Golden Globe Award
nomination for
Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy
for
The Debbie Reynolds Show
(1970), a Golden Globe nomination for
Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
for
Mother
(1996) and an
Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
, for her role of
Bobbi Adler
in the
sitcom
Will & Grace
(2000). In 1996 and 1997, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy, in the
American Comedy Awards
.
Her foot and hand prints are preserved at the
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
in
Hollywood
,
California
. She also has a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame
at 6654 Hollywood Boulevard.
In November 2006, Reynolds received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from
Chapman University
(
Orange
, California). On May 17, 2007, she was awarded an
honorary degree
of
Doctor of Humane Letters
from the
University of Nevada, Reno
, (
Reno
, Nevada) where she had contributed for many years to the
film-studies
program. In her acceptance speech, she referred to the University as "Nevahda...Arizona".
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Film memorabilia
Reynolds has amassed a large collection of
movie memorabilia
, beginning with the landmark 1970
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
auction, and displayed them, first in a museum at her Las Vegas hotel and casino during the 1990s and later in a museum close to the
Kodak Theater
in
Los Angeles
. On several occasions, she has
auctioned
off items from the collection.
The museum was to relocate to be the centerpiece of the Belle Island Village tourist attraction in the resort city of
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
, but the developer went bankrupt.
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The museum itself filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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in June 2009.
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Todd Fisher, Reynolds' son, announced that his mother was "heartbroken" to have to auction off her collection.
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It was valued at .79 million in the bankruptcy filing.
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The Vancouver Sun
reported that Profiles in History has been given the responsibility of conducting a series of auctions beginning in June and continuing into December 2011.
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Among the "more than 3500 costumes, 20,000 photographs, and thousands of movie posters, costume sketches, and props" to be sold are
Charlie Chaplin
's bowler hat and
Marilyn Monroe
's white "subway dress", whose skirt is lifted up by the breeze from a passing subway train in the film
The Seven Year Itch
(1955).
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On June 18, 2011, the subway dress was sold for .6 million dollars, far in excess of pre-auction estimates of -2 million.
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Another Monroe dress, which she wore in
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
, fetched .2 million, four times the upper pre-sale expectation.
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Personal life
Reynolds has been married three times.
She and
Eddie Fisher
were married in 1955. They are the parents of
Carrie Fisher
and Todd Fisher. A public scandal ensued when Fisher and
Elizabeth Taylor
fell in love following the death of Taylor's then-husband
Mike Todd
, and Reynolds and Fisher were divorced in 1959. In 2011, first on the Oprah show only weeks before Elizabeth Taylor's death from
congestive heart failure
, Reynolds explained that she and Taylor happened to be traveling on the ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth" at the same time when they made up. Debbie sent a note to Taylor's room, and Taylor sent a note in reply asking to have dinner with Debbie and end their feud. The two reconciled, and, as Debbie put it, "...we had a wonderful evening with a lot of laughs". Reynolds said of Taylor in an interview with
Popeater
that "[Elizabeth] went through her younger years of just obtaining what she wanted, and later in life she became a little more aware of other people's feelings" and also said of her legendary friend, "Elizabeth worked really hard all of her life and she raised her children really well. She worked really hard for HIV; I've worked hard for mental health. We both feel we've done our job and our commitment to the community" and "I'm very sorry for Elizabeth's passing. She was the most glamorous star of our generation, and women liked her and men adored her, including my husband [Fisher]. She was a symbol of stardom and her legacy will go on forever".
Her second marriage, to millionaire businessman Harry Karl, lasted from 1960 to 1973. At its end, she found herself in financial difficulty because of Karl's gambling and bad investments.
Reynolds was married to
real estate developer
Richard Hamlett from 1984 to 1996. They purchased
Greek Isles Hotel & Casino
, a small hotel and casino in Las Vegas, but it was not a success. In 1997, Reynolds was forced to declare
bankruptcy
.
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Reynolds has been active in the
Thalians Club
, a charitable organization.
She resides in
Beverly Hills
next door to her daughter Carrie.
Her maternal grandmother Joan Harmon (September 5, 1883 – October 31, 1932) was an actress who worked on Broadway from 1929 until late 1930.
In keeping with the celebrity tradition of the
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival
of
Winchester
,
Virginia
, Reynolds was honored as the Grand Marshal of the 2011 ABF that took place from April 26 to May 1, 2011.
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