Both ex-wives were furious, and Carrie Fisher threatened to change her name to Reynolds.Īt 47, Fisher married a 21-year-old beauty queen, Terry Richard. He called Reynolds “self-centered, totally driven, insecure, untruthful, phony.” He claimed he abandoned his career during the Taylor marriage because he was too busy taking her to emergency rooms and cleaning up after her pets, children and servants. He had added to his notoriety that year with an autobiography, “Eddie: My Life, My Loves.” Of his first three marriages, he wrote he had been bullied into marriage with Reynolds, whom he didn’t know well became nursemaid as well as husband to Taylor, and was reluctant to marry Connie Stevens but she was pregnant and he “did the proper thing.”Īnother autobiography, “Been There, Done That,” published in 1999, was even more searing.
But his old fans had been turned off by the scandals, and the younger generation had been turned on by rock. In 1983, Fisher attempted a full-scale comeback. He later said he had made and spent $20 million during his heyday, and much of it went to gambling and drugs. He began relying on drugs to get through performances, and his bookings dwindled.
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But that film marked the end of his movie career.Īfter being discarded by Taylor, Fisher became the butt of comedians’ jokes. In 1960 he played a role in “Butterfield 8,” for which Taylor won an Academy Award. The couple costarred in a 1956 romantic comedy, “Bundle of Joy,” that capitalized on their own parenthood.
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Publicist-manager Milton Blackstone helped the publicity by hiring girls to scream and swoon at Fisher’s appearances.Īfter getting out of the Army in 1953 following a two-year hitch, hit records, his own TV show and the headlined marriage to Reynolds made Fisher a top star. At 15 he was singing on Philadelphia radio.Īfter moving to New York, Fisher was adopted as a protege by comedian Eddie Cantor, who helped the young singer become a star in radio, television and records.įisher’s romantic messages resonated with young girls in the pre-Elvis period. 10, 1928, in Philadelphia, one of seven children of a Jewish grocer. He married twice more.Įdwin Jack Fisher was born Aug. He married actress Connie Stevens, and they had two daughters. She fell in love with co-star Richard Burton during the Rome filming of “Cleopatra,” divorced Fisher and married Burton in one of the great entertainment world scandals of the 20th century.įisher’s career never recovered from the notoriety. The Fisher-Taylor marriage lasted only five years.
Amid sensationalist headlines, Fisher divorced Reynolds and married Taylor in 1959. When Eddie Fisher’s best friend, producer Mike Todd, was killed in a 1958 plane crash, Fisher comforted the widow, Elizabeth Taylor. Eddie Fisher was by then in a wheelchair and living in San Francisco. Their daughter Carrie Fisher became a film star herself in the first three “Star Wars” films as Princess Leia, and later as a best-selling author of “Postcards From the Edge” and other books.Ĭarrie Fisher spent most of 2008 on the road with her autobiographical show “Wishful Drinking.” In an interview with The Associated Press, she told of singing with her father on stage in San Jose.
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