US singer Eddie Fisher dies at 82 - BBC News BBC News US singer Eddie Fisher dies at 82 24 September 2010 Close share panel Image caption Eddie Fisher on the day of his wedding to Elizabeth Taylor in 1959 US singer Eddie Fisher, who sold millions of records in the 50s and was married to Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds, has died at the age of 82. Fisher was a teen idol in the 1950s with dozens of Top 40 hits and his own TV show. His marriage to Debbie Reynolds produced two children, including Carrie Fisher, who starred as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy. Fisher was married five times in all, including also to Connie Stevens. One of the greatest voices of the century passed away - he was an extraordinary talent Fisher family statement Fisher's top songs included Thinking of You, Any Time and Oh, My Pa-pa. His divorce from Debbie Reynolds to marry Elizabeth Taylor caused sensational headlines. 'American icon' His daughter, Tricia Leigh Fisher, told Associated Press that Fisher had died on Wednesday night of complications from hip surgery at a hospital in Berkeley, California.

Image caption Eddie Fisher had two children with Connie Stevens, his third wife "Late last evening the world lost a true America icon," Fisher's family said in a statement. "One of the greatest voices of the century passed away. He was an extraordinary talent." Edwin Jack Fisher was born in August 1928 in Philadelphia. He married Debbie Reynolds in 1955 and the pair were dubbed "America's favourite couple". But he sensationally divorced her after Elizabeth Taylor's husband, and Fisher's best friend, Mike Todd, was killed in a 1958 plane crash. Fisher and Taylor married in 1959 but it lasted only five years. She then married Richard Burton. Fisher then had two daughters with Connie Stevens and he married twice more. Connie Stevens - News NEWS By Greg Hernandez HollywoodNews.com: Carrie Fisher has had one helluva life. She’s got a movie star for a mom ( Debbie Reynolds ) and a famous singer for a dad ( Eddie Fisher ) and Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens among her stepmothers. Among her ex-husbands is singer Paul Simon and her half-sister is actress Joely Fisher . That’s just the family stuff.

Carrie herself became a huge movie star playing Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy and went on to become an acclaimed novelist and screenwriter (‘ Postcards From the Edge ’). Through it all, she has battled drug addiction and mental illness and developed a brilliant sense of humor and openness about it all. That’s why you have got to watch her new HBO special ‘ Wishful Drinking ’ which premieres tonight. She is a 54-year-old poster child for the thrills and pitfalls of growing up in Hollywood. When Carrie appeared » 9 November 2010 11:03 AM, PST | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news » Connie Stevens resigned Monday from the Screen Actors Guild’s national board of directors, making the announcement at a meeting of the guild’s Hollywood board.

Stevens had served as secretary-treasurer of SAG from 2005 to 2009, when she was defeated in her re-election bid by the current secretary-treasurer, Amy Aquino .A member of SAG’s MembershipFirst faction, Stevens told Variety that she found it “very difficult” to continue to work in a boardroom that has come to be dominated by moderate guild leaders opposed to MembershipFirst’s agenda. Hollywood board member Clancy Brown was appointed to take Stevens’ place on the national board, in accordance with the guild practice of allowing outgoing members to name their replacements. Stevens had two years remaining in her three-year term. Brown will hold her seat until next fall’s national elections. » 4 October 2010 7:00 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news » At a Hollywood theater Tuesday night, there will be a benefit called "1 Voice," featuring performances and passionate pitches from Richard Dreyfuss , John Schneider , Esai Morales , Nichelle Nichols , Connie Stevens and a dozen others.

The event is more than about raising money: It aims to ramp up efforts to save the long-term-care facility on the Wasserman campus at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills. "It's an awareness evening," said John F. McCormick , who will direct the show at the Neo Ensemble Theatre. "We need to keep having this conversation about what is happening and how we can help." Since the plan to close the facilities was disclosed in January 2009, there have been numerous media reports and the formation of a number of committees to address the situation, all of which has been embarrassing to the Motion Picture & Television Fund. The nonprofit, which has overseen the premier industry charity for generations, » - By Alex Ben Block 24 September 2010 10:52 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news » Los Angeles/New York - Singer and actor Eddie Fisher , 82, perhaps best remembers for his string of marriages with Hollywood starlets, has died, according to media reports in Los Angeles. He died Wednesday at his home in Berkeley, California, from complications of a recent hip surgery. He was married to Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor from 1959-64.

Fisher had left his first wife, musical actress Debie Reynolds, to become the fourth of Taylor's eight husbands. Fisher was later married for three years to singer-actress Connie Stevens . He had five marriages in all. The smooth-voiced Fisher was a constant presence in the Us » By Lee Pfeiffer Singer Eddie Fisher has died from complications from hip surgery. He was 82. Fisher was once a national singing sensation in the 1950s. He wed Debbie Reynolds and seemed poised for a successful acting career as well. However, the storybook marriage fell apart. Henceforth, Fisher would be known primarily for the more scandalous aspects of his love life. When his best friend Mike Todd was killed in a plane crash in 1958, Fisher not only comforted his widow Elizabeth Taylor , but ended up marrying her shortly thereafter- much to the horror of an outraged public that was then used to sanitized stories about the purity of entertainer's lives.In an instance of bitter irony, Fisher lost Taylor to actor Richard Burton , when the two co-starred in the 1963 epic Cleopatra .

The romantic scandal was so torrid that it became front page news all over the world and made Fisher the » - nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro) 24 September 2010 9:11 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news » American crooner and one of the husbands of Elizabeth Taylor , his heyday was the 50s Eddie Fisher , who has died aged 82 of complications from hip surgery, deserves to be remembered as one of the sweetest popular singers of the pre-rock'n'roll era, with 32 hits selling millions of copies. Instead, it was as one of the many husbands of Elizabeth Taylor that he etched himself a place in show business history. And further to that, "I came from the streets of Philadelphia to the White House – Harry Truman loved me, Ike loved me, Jack Kennedy and I shared drugs and women," he later said of himself. It was a reputation that he did not need. Numbers such as I'm Walking Behind You, Wish You Were Here and Oh, My Pa-Pa got young women screaming and music aficionados admiring the sheer strength and beauty of his voice – a most unusual combination.

Yet when » 24 September 2010 5:00 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news » After suffering complications from recent hip surgery, 1950s pop icon Eddie Fisher passed away at the age of 82. "Late [Wednesday] evening, the world lost a true American icon," Fisher's family said in a statement. "He was an extraordinary talent and a true mensch." Father to Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher , he died in his home in Berkeley, Calif. The statement also read: "He was loved and will be missed by his four children: Carrie, Todd, Joely, and Tricia Leigh as well as his six grandchildren."The late Fisher was one of the most successful pop voices of the 1950s, with chart-toppers like "I Need You Now, » - Alison Schwartz 24 September 2010 4:53 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news » From CNN: One of the most popular singers of the 1950s, Eddie Fisher , has died. He was 82.

Fisher died of complications from hip surgery Wednesday, his family said. “Late last evening the world lost a true America icon. Eddie Fisher , 82, one of the greatest voices of the century passed away in Berkley, CA due to complications and a decline in health from a recent hip surgery,” his family members said in a statement. “He was loved and will be missed by his four children: Carrie, Todd, Joely, and Tricia Leigh as well as his six grandchildren. He was an extraordinary talent.” Although Fisher sold millions of records and had his own television show, his biggest claim to fame may be his high-profile marriages to Hollywood starlets Debbie Reynolds , Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens — all of which ended in divorce. He had two more marriages after that….. read rest here 23 September 2010 10:48 PM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news » Eddie Fisher passed away Wednesday night (Sept. 22) from complications from hip surgery, his daughter Tricia Leigh Fisher tells the Associated Press.

Fisher married Debbie Reynolds in 1955 and with her had two children, Carrie Fisher , most famous for playing Princess Leia in the " Star Wars " movies, and Todd. He left Reynolds and married Elizabeth Taylor in 1959 after comforting her upon the death of her husband Mike Todd , who was Fisher's best friend. Taylor left Fisher in 1964 for Richard Burton and Fisher went on to marry Connie Stevens in 1967. They had two children, actress Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher . Fisher's entire life was riddled with scandal and drug use. He famously wrote in his 1983 autobiography, "Eddie: My Life, My Loves," that Reynolds bullied him into marriage, that he spent most of his time with Taylor playing nursemaid and that he only married Stevens because she was pregnant. His 1999 autobiography, "Been There, » - editorial@zap2it.com 23 September 2010 5:41 PM, PDT | Deadline Hollywood | See recent Deadline Hollywood news » Reliable sources tell me that Eddie Fisher has died. He was 82.

The singer and entertainer and TV star of his own show and co-star of films Bundle Of Joy and Butterfield 8 had his heyday in the 1950s. In 1953 Fisher was given his own 15-minute TV show called Coke Time , sponsored by the Coca-Cola company; it was so popular that Coke then offered Eddie an unprecedented $1 million contract to be their national spokesperson. But Fisher is best known for having been married to Debbie Reynolds , Elizabeth Taylor , and Connie Stevens and for fathering multitalent Carrie Fisher and TV actress Joely Fisher . He created quite the worldwide scandal when he dumped his first wife, America's sweetheart Reynolds, to marry his best friend's widow, America's sex symbol Taylor, who then dumped him for Richard Burton . Fisher became reviled and his career never recovered. (The two women later mocked Fisher in a thinly » - Nikki Finke 23 September 2010 4:12 PM, PDT | Deadline Hollywood | See recent Deadline Hollywood news » Beverly Hills -- Announcing "1 Voice": A Star Filled Evening of Entertainment in support of the embattled Motion Picture Home's residents and its uncertain future.

The Board of Directors of the Motion Picture & Television Fund (Mptf) is committed to closing the entertainment community's historic nursing home and hospital in Woodland Hills, CA. The impending closure displaces Hollywood's most frail and vulnerable residents from their campus home in the Long Term Care facility. '1 Voice' is a celebrity-packed evening to raise industry and community awareness of the resident's plight. The Neo Ensemble Theatre is sharing an evening of all-star entertainment in support of the efforts of Saving the Lives Of Our Own, the advocacy group dedicated to keeping the residents in the Motion Picture Home and to preserving the Mptf's historic mission and promise of "taking care of our own" to all entertainment industry workers. The Los Angeles based non-profit theater » - Nikki Finke 13 August 2010 10:20 PM, PDT | Planet Fury | See recent Planet Fury news » Tatum O'Neil is an insane and dangerous woman in this new thriller written and directed by Connie Stevens . Yes. That Connie Stevens .

The TV actress and B-movie star from the 1950's (she got her start in flicks like 1957's Eighteen and Anxious and Drag Strip Riot.) You might also remember her as herself in 1988's Frankie Avalon / Annette Funicello comeback Back to the Beach , trying to steal Frankie's heart away from Annette . Or as Miss Mason in Grease 2 . Well, she's directed something, and its severely disturbing! Starring O'Neil as the title character, and costarring Michael Biehn , Piper Laurie , Penelope Ann Miller and Joel Gretsch , Saving Grace B. Jones is a terrifying thriller about a woman with extreme mentak problems who goes a little nuts one night during a chaotic storm. Set in 1950s-era Missouri and with a creepy southern gothic feel, it looks super awesome and Lifetime-tv-y.

I guess » By Greg Hernandez HollywoodNews.com: Carrie Fisher delighted us on the final day of the TV Critics Association Summer Press Tour on Saturday where she came to talk up the upcoming HBO special “Wishful Drinking.” It’s a documentary of her successful stage show that has wowed audiences from coast-to-coast, most recently on Broadway. Wishful includes elements from a June 25 performance of the show at the South Orange Performing Arts Center in South Orange, N.J. The HBO show also will feature archival footage and interviews with friends and family. And what a family: Mother : Debbie Reynolds . Father: Eddie Fisher . Former stepmothers: Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens . Half-sister: Joely Fisher . Ex-husband #1: Paul Simon . Carrie’s singer father famously left her movie star mother, the star of Singing in the Rain, Tammy the Bachelor and many other films, for Miss Taylor in the late 50s.

It was a situation » - Greg Hernandez 9 August 2010 6:55 PM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news » By Fred Topel HollywoodNews.com: Carrie Fisher put all the drama of her drug addiction, her parents’ love triangles and the Star Wars phenomenon in a one woman show based on her book Wishful Drinking. Now HBO is filming it and Fisher entertained the Television Critics Association with more tales of debauchery and tragedy. With all the scandal behind her, she can finally laugh about it. “Maybe some of it was with 12 step,” Fisher said. “Gradually what I realized was when I got sober, overdosed, went to a mental hospital, all these things, it went in the paper. ‘Guy dead in my bed.’ My thing was wait a second, if it’s going to be out there, please let my version be in it. So it was sort of a bit like that. Also there’s the saying, ‘You’re only as sick as your secrets.’ I’m sure most of you have that T-shirt.

» - Fred Topel 20 July 2010 3:26 PM, PDT | Screen Anarchy | See recent Screen Anarchy news » There are films that if caught at a certain age tend to imprint themselves on kids. Good, bad are irrelevant to a viewer encountering crtain images or ideas for the first time. I'm not sure Two On A Guillotine quite fits that bill but it is, at the very least, a good imitation of it. Guilltoines, magicians and a black/white nostalgia make this an awfully fun time waster and it has a dynamite cast including Cesar Romero (Batmans The Joker) Connie Stevens , Dean Jones (from countless Disney movies) and a score by the great Max Stiener ( King Kong ). Long unavailable this appears now (Abra-Cadabra) courtesy of the wonderful Warner Archive where, for a price, you can get a DVD burned just for you. There are so many great films availble there currently I'll never catch up.

23 June 2010 11:13 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news » 1965's Two on a Guillotine was finally released on DVD for the first time this week by Warner Brothers , and to celebrate the momentous occasion, they've provided a clip and still for us to share with our readers. Cult favorite suspense/horror film Two on a Guillotine was directed by William Conrad and stars Connie Stevens as the daughter of a demented magician played by the iconic Cesar Romero . It has been remastered for this release and is available exclusively via WarnerArchive.com. Synopsis: Twenty years ago a little accident with a guillotine trick left magician Duke Duquesne’s wife and on-stage assistant without a head ... and their baby daughter, Cassie, without a mother. Now The Great Duquesne may have another trick up his sleeve. He dies, leaving Cassie a sizable inheritance if she’ll spend seven nights in his spooky mansion.

With a fearless young reporter at her side, » - The Woman In Black 15 June 2010 4:25 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news » Before he became famous as the "Fatman" in TV's " Jake and the Fatman ", William Conrad was a fairly prolific director, and one of his best films (to this woman anyway) was 1965's Two on a Guillotine, which is bowing on DVD for the first time on June 22nd. Cult favorite suspense/horror film Two on a Guillotine stars Connie Stevens as the daughter of a demented magician played by the iconic Cesar Romero . It has been remastered for this release and is available exclusively via WarnerArchive.com. Synopsis: Twenty years ago a little accident with a guillotine trick left magician Duke Duquesne’s wife and on-stage assistant without a head ... and their baby daughter, Cassie, without a mother. Now The Great Duquesne may have another trick up his sleeve. He dies, leaving Cassie a sizable inheritance if she’ll spend seven nights in his spooky mansion.

With a fearless young reporter at her side, » - The Woman In Black 20 May 2010 11:00 AM, PDT | People - CelebrityBabies | See recent People - CelebrityBabies news » A new baby blanket can symbolize so much for an expectant mom, but for those who live at or below the poverty level it means one thing, and one thing only. “Children born into poverty often face a higher level of stress” than those born to more affluent families, according to Early Childhood Advisor Judith Jerald, who adds that research and experience have shown that a favorite blanket can be a soothing and comforting transitional object. Bundled in Hope — a joint effort of Toys ‘R’ Us and Save the Children — is poised to help. In just its second year, the » - Missy 18 March 2010 1:53 AM, PDT | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news » Warner Bros will adapt the TV series "77 Sunset Strip" into a period feature, directed by Greg Berlanti , from a screenplay by Stephen Chin . Berlanti will also produce with A. Scott Berg and Kevin McCormick.

"77 Sunset Strip" starred actors Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith and Edd Byrnes , based on novels/short stories written by creator Roy Huggins . The show aired from 1958 to 1964, winning a 1960 Golden Globe Award for best TV series, revolving around La detectives, 'Stuart ("Stu") Bailey', a character Huggins originated in his 1946 novel "The Double Take" and 'Jeff Spencer', a non-practicing attorney. The duo worked out of an office at 77 Sunset Strip, between La Cienega Boulevard and Alta Loma Road on the south side of the Strip. Comic relief was provided by racetrack personality 'Roscoe' and 'Gerald Lloyd "Kookie" Kookson III', a hipster and aspiring P.I. who worked as a valet parking attendant at Dino's, the club next door to the detectives' office.

» - Michael Stevens Eddie Fisher Dies; Father To Carrie Fisher Home / Entertainment / Eddie Fisher Dies; Singer Married to Connie Stevens, Debbie Reynolds Eddie Fisher Dies; Singer Married to Connie Stevens, Debbie Reynolds September 24, 2010 230 Words by Brian Willett Eddie Fisher, a popular 1950s pop singer, died Wednesday night in Berkeley, CA. He was 82. Fisher is the father of four children, among them actress Carrie Fisher, who gained famed in the Star Wars saga. “He was loved & will be missed by his four children as well as his six grandchildren,” Carrie Fischer posted on her Twitter account. Fisher died from complications related to hip surgery. Fisher was known for selling millions of records, powered by singles such as “Wish You Were Here,” “Lady of Spain” and “Any Time.” However, the affairs of Fisher’s private life at times threatened to tarnish the legacy of his talent. Fisher married actress Debbie Reynolds in 1955, and the couple had two children, Carrie and Todd. However, Fisher then divorced Reynolds and married Elizabeth Taylor, whom he had met while consoling her following the death of her husband, Mike Todd.

Taylor then fell in love with Cleopatra co-star Richard Burton, and divorced Fisher and married Burton. After that relationship failed, Fisher was publicly humiliated and began gambling and abusing drugs. Fisher married Connie Stevens in 1967, claiming later that it was only because she was pregnant. They divorced in 1969. Good Reads Life In The Hollywood Petri Dish: In 1966 Eddie Fisher Married Connie Stevens And Liz Taylor Looked On | By Karen Strike on 26 April 2014 | comments 0 Share this: On January 30, 1967, singer Eddie Fisher and actress Connie Stevens (nee Concetta Anna Ingolia) announced their engagement at New York’s Plymouth Theatre. He wore hair oil. She wore furs. Eddie was the star of a former TV show called Coke Time. In 1955, Eddie had married Debbie Reynolds, resulting in two children Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher. Singer Eddie Fisher, 26, feeds a piece of wedding cake to his bride, actress Debbie Reynolds, 23, following their marriage at Grossinger, N.Y., on Sept. 26, 1955.

(AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler). Date: 26/09/1955 They were America’s sweethearts: “I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result” – Carrie Fisher. Singer Eddie Fisher, out of the hospital in time for Father’s Day, cuddles his two youngsters four-month old Todd, left, and 19-month-old Carrie. Looking on is their equally famous mother, actress Debbie Reynolds. Eddie spent ten days in the hospital following an appendix flare-up. (AP Photo) Date: 14/06/1958 It didn’t last. In 1958, news broke of his affair with Elizabeth Taylor, widowed when Michael Todd, Eddie’s best friend, had died in a plane crash. Arrival of Elizabeth Taylor in car with Michael Todd, her husband, driving to the Carlton hotel on May 2, 1957 at Cannes in France.

Date: 02/05/1957 – Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, from left to right, are shown attending the opening show starring Fisher at the Tropicana, in this June 19, 1958 file photo taken in Las Vegas, Nev. A quartette of film folk stroll along the turf on Epsom Downs, on June 5, 1957 during the 178th Derby Stakes in England. Left to right, Mike Todd and his wife Elizabeth Taylor, singer Eddie Fisher, and his wife actress Debbie Reynolds. (AP Photo) Date: 05/06/1957 In 1959, Fisher divorced Reynolds and married Taylor. They would remain together for four years, divorcing in 1964. Liz Taylor and Eddie Fisher flash happy smiles through the window of their auto on May 12, 1959 in Las Vegas, as they were driven off from the county courthouse where Fisher first divorced Debbie Reynolds and then obtained a license to marry Miss Taylor. The wedding was to take place a couple of hours later in a synagogue.

(AP Photo) Elizabeth Taylor, right, and Eddie Fisher, left, discuss wedding plans with Sammy Davis, Jr. shortly before dawn at the Hotel Tropicana, April 2, 1959, Las Vegas, Nev. The actress and Fisher said where they will marry depends on what Debbie Reynolds Fishers ex-wife, says. If Miss Reynolds agrees to a quickie Nevada divorce, Liz and Eddie will wed here, otherwise Mexico. Debbie Reynolds married twice more. And she twice more divorced. Singer Eddie Fisher, left, with actress Elizabeth Taylor, right, posing for the media after their marriage in this May 12, 1959 file photo taken Las Vegas, Nev. Debbie would say : “Eddie had been best man at their wedding and I had been a bridesmaid. We saw a lot of each other and I never suspected that she was going to entice my husband away. I might not have been as surprised were it anyone else. But how it all happened was rather scandalous in that they didn’t take more care to avoid hurting me. I understand when I look back on it. Who would pass by Elizabeth? No woman living was as beautiful as her.

And Eddie had even tried to act like Mike Todd, smoking big cigars. I was the last to find out about the affair. There had been hints in the papers and I had noticed that when I turned up at functions or parties on my own my friends were whispering. Although I didn’t want to find out the truth, I had to face up to it. Even so, it was a great shock to find them together. It left me shattered… I was a virgin when I married Eddie, but Elizabeth had been married three times. I was devastated because I had two children. I was very religious so I didn’t believe in divorce, but they laid guilt on me that I was keeping them and true love apart. So, I finally let Eddie off the hook. I told him to go.” Taylor would cheat on Fisher with Richard Burton. Taylor married Larry Forenzky in 1991. And divorced him in 1996. Before that she married these men: Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who turns 50 Saturday, Febr. 27, 1982, is shown through the years with her six husbands. Top row, from left: Conrad Hilton Jr.

in 1950; actor Michael Wilding in 1951; producer Mike Todd in 1957; Bottom row, from left: singer Eddie Fisher in 1959; actor Richard Burton in 1972 and John Warner in 1976. By the time Eddie the crooner married Connie Stevens, his reputation was sullied. She was the actress, who had starred as Wendy Conway in the sitcom Wendy & Me. In the series (a slight variation of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show), Burns plays a somewhat fictionalized version of himself. He is the owner of an apartment building, while Stevens plays his tenant, Wendy Conway. Episodes typically revolved around Wendy pulling Burns into comedic situations mostly involving her husband, played by Ron Harper, and other people in the building. She had been married before, divorcing actor James Stacy in 1963. Connie Stevens, 28, singer and actress, enters Superior Court in Los Angeles, Nov. 2, 1966 to obtain a default divorce decree from actor James Stacy, 29. She accused him of using “abusive and vulgar language” and told of arguments in public.

They were married three years ago and have no children. Wikipedia : On September 27, 1973, a drunk driver struck Stacy and his girlfriend, waitress Claire Cox, while they were riding tandem on a motorcycle. Cox died of her injuries, and Stacy lost his left arm and leg. Stacy’s ex-wife, actress and singer Connie Stevens, organized a 1974 celebrity gala to raise money for his expenses. The gala, whose attendees included Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, raised $118,000 for his expenses. In 1976, he won a $1.9 million landmark lawsuit against the bar that had served the drunk driver… After his recovery, Stacy appeared in roles created to accommodate his handicap. His comeback film was the 1975 Kirk Douglas Western Posse, in which he was cast as newspaper editor “Harold Hellman”, a part Douglas had written for him. In 1977, he starred in the TV movie Just a Little Inconvenience, playing a double-amputee Vietnam veteran.

The role earned him his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama or Comedy Special… In November 1995, Stacy pled no contest to a charge of molesting an 11-year-old-girl[4] and entered a Ventura County rehab facility… Stacy, who is required to register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law, currently resides in Ventura, California. Stevens and Fisher had two daughters, the actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher. They divorced in 1968. Eddie would go on to marry twice more. These pictures are evocative of the time. Eddie has the pallor of a hard drinker with a cocaine habit. She is powdered and glowing. But it is the last photo in this set that makes us look and look again. What is he saying to her? Her expression is choice… Eddie Fisher - Hollywood Star Walk - Los Angeles Times Hollywood Star Walk Music: North side of the 6200 block of Hollywood Boulevard TV: East side of the 1700 block of Vine Street Born Edwin Jack Fisher on Aug. 10, 1928 in Philadelphia, PA Died Sept.

22, 2010 of complications from hip surgery in Berkeley, Calif. Eddie Fisher was a crooner perhaps best known for his glamorous wives. In the 1950s, Fisher bridged the gap between Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley as a teen singing idol. For years after, he still ranked high in terms of record sales. During the '60s and '70s, he headlined in Las Vegas. In his heyday, he hosted his own TV show, before he won tabloid notoriety with his divorce from Debbie Reynolds. Known as America's sweetheart, Reynolds, only 26, was abandoned by Fisher for another woman. Not just any woman, but the most beautiful woman in the world: Elizabeth Taylor — Cleopatra incarnate. At the time, the story was considered in Hollywood to be the scandal of the century. It permanently destroyed Fisher's career, and at the same time catapulted Taylor to femme fatale superstardom. Taylor was the widow of his good friend Mike Todd, who had died in a plane crash, and the couples had been friendly. Reynolds was left to care for the couple’s young children.

"All those romances took too much energy," said the graying singer in 1990, when he had recently undergone a liposuction operation to avoid having to go on stage with a potbelly. "I was only married three times [to Reynolds, Taylor and Connie Stevens] for a total of 6 1/2 years," Fisher once said. "But living with a woman is just like marriage." He later married twice more, first to Terry Richard, whom he divorced after a year, and then to Betty Lin, from 1993 until her death in 2001. Over the years he also was involved with Judy Garland and Ann-Margret. "It's good to be romantic," Fisher said. "But before you do anything, you've got to work. Romance is for kids. There are times when everything is perfect, but it doesn't last." His relationship with his children was often distant. Actress Carrie Fisher, his daughter with Reynolds, said her father's tell-all 1999 book, "Been There, Done That," actually prompted her mother and her to make peace with Taylor.

"My father's book was very upsetting for all of us, and it made all of us better friends," Carrie Fisher said in 2001. "I understand on a certain level that he really felt like he lost his career because he left my mother for Elizabeth Taylor, but what he did [in writing the book] was something you don't do. He was incredibly unkind." — Ruth Ryon and William Keck in the Los Angeles Times, with additional material July 30, 2000 and Feb. 12, 2001 Related Seven thoughts about Eddie Fisher “ In 1991 I produced a show in Palm Springs with Eddie Fisher. I thought he would be a sellout there in a very Jewish community. We did two shows and lost a lot of money. People didn't buy tickets. They couldn't forgive him for his past. He was absolutely amazing, sang just as he always had. When I was 14 years old I saw Eddie perform in St. Louis. After the show I went to the back of the theatre and plowed my way up to his car that he was in with his then fiancee Debbie Reynolds.

I said kiss me Eddie and he replied save your kisses for somone else honey. When I met him in Palm Springs for a press conference a few weeks before the show and introduced myself as his producer he was blown away by my attractive appearance. So I told him the story of when I was 14 and he grabbed me and kissed me fulfilling a young girl's dream. ” — Laurie Scott, September 24, 2010 at 9:09 a.m. “ I once saw Eddie, about 10 years ago, walking by himself in Berkeley. I recognized him from a story that the Oakland Tribune or SF Chronicle had posted. I didn't want to bother him, so I made eye contact and gave him a thumbs up. He smiled, threw one back and kept going. Great singer, RIP ” — MarkInCA, September 24, 2010 at 9:17 a.m. “ I saw Eddie Fisher perform at the Waldorf Astoria when he was married to Elizabeth Taylor. I thought he was wonderful. I've always been a fan and sorry his career ended so soon. He had so much talent.

” — JANY, September 27, 2010 at 2:25 p.m. “ After 13 years as a fan of the greatest popular music singer ever, I finally met him in 1964 when he played Melodyland. My girlfriend and I got to visit with him in his dressing room after the show, and he was just incredibly gracious to us. I will always have a special place in my heart for Eddie, and am so glad there is a thing called "YouTube," where I have spent many hours since he passed away, listening to that glorious voice ... remembering how it comforted a lonely little Texas girl almost 60 years ago ... ” — Carol Craft, October 16, 2010 at 8:16 p.m. “ I met Eddie in 1967 at the Palace Theater in N.Y. I managed to sneak into the theater and spent some time with Eddie in his dressing room. He was very nice to me and some other fans who were there. Eddie let me take photos of him and was very nice to us.

” — fred, September 18, 2013 at 11:33 a.m. “ I had known Eddie Fisher as a fan over the years. He was a wonderful singer and entertainer. I last saw him perform in 1995 in Ohio, and he was just great. He was a very sweet and kind man, nothing like his ex-wives made him out to be. I spent time with him and his last wife, Betty, and he was very happy with her. I am glad he found happiness in marriage even at that stage of his life. I will always remember him, and I play his music every day. I also enjoy the You Tube videos of Eddie's. Yes, Eddie does deserve his stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ” — Betty, August 10, 2014 at 7:52 a.m. “ I am from Philly I had such a crush on Eddie Fisher when I was a teenager. I lived and talked about him day and night when he married Debbie Reynolds I was crushed. My love turned to dispise.

” — marcia hentzler, August 11, 2015 at 6:33 a.m. Share a thought about Eddie Fisher Did you ever meet Eddie Fisher? Share your memory. Which other stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame have connections to Eddie Fisher? Are other places in the world important to Eddie Fisher? Does Eddie Fisher deserve this star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? If you enter anything in this field your comment will be treated as spam Name Eddie Fisher - Biography - IMDb Eddie Fisher Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (5) | Trivia (19) | Personal Quotes (4) Overview (4) 5' 4½" (1.64 m) Mini Bio (1) In 1953 Eddie Fisher was given his own fifteen-minute TV show called Coke Time (1953), sponsored by the Coca-Cola company. This show proved to be so popular that Coke then offered Eddie a $1 million contract to be their national spokesperson. A deal of that magnitude was almost unheard of at this time and helped push Fisher towards being one of the most popular singers by 1954.

In 1955 Eddie married Debbie Reynolds and daughter Carrie Fisher was born a year later, followed by son Todd Fisher in l958. Later that year, the scandal of the decade broke when stories of Eddie's affair with Elizabeth Taylor were made public. She had been widowed earlier that year when her husband Michael Todd , Eddie's best friend, died in a plane crash. The bad publicity that followed did a great deal of damage to Eddie's career, while it actually increased the amount of money Elizabeth was offered for films. He and Liz did the movie BUtterfield 8 (1960), which actually earned Taylor an Academy Award, though it was received with mixed reviews. From there Liz went on to star in Cleopatra (1963), with Richard Burton , another scandal and divorce for Liz. With his TV show long gone and hit records a thing of the past, his career in the sixties consisted mainly of stage shows in Las Vegas, New York, and smaller venues as time went on. For a few years he was married to Connie Stevens and they had two daughters, Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher before divorcing in 1968.

Eddie Fisher has written two autobiographies, the latest "Been There, Done That" published with great controversy. It seems some of the women in his past, including Debbie Reynolds , did not care for his portrayal of them. He must be given credit, however, for owning up to his own actions, which led to the degradation of his career. His fifth wife, Betty Lin, passed away from lung cancer on April 15, 2001. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Sheryl Reeder <sherry@reeder.com> Spouse (5) ( 26 September 1955 - 12 May 1959) (divorced) (2 children) Trivia (19) Ex-brother-in-law of John Megna . At the height of his popularity, during the 1950s, Fisher was, along with Perry Como and Elvis Presley , RCA Victor's top-selling pop vocalist.

His many hits during this period, all well remembered, include: "Anytime" (his first big hit), "Oh, My Pa-Pa", "Wish You Were Here", "I Need You Now", "Dungaree Doll", "I'm Walking Behind You", "Heart", "Games That Lovers Play" and "Somebody Like You". The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, according to Eddie, the family's surname was originally either Tisch or Fisch. Between Ellis Island and Philadelphia, it had become Americanized as Fisher. The first person to ever make a fan club for him was a then thirteen-year old Rona Barrett , who later became his life-long friend. His manager was Bill Trowbridge . During an April 2007 Entertainment Tonight (1981) interview with Mary Hart , ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor revealed that she recently telephoned him and they spoke for the first time in over 40 years. Received billing as 'Stage Manager' in the film All About Eve (1950), although his scenes were cut out of the film.

When he declared bankruptcy in 1970 in San Juan, Puerto Rico he listed $916,300 in debts and $40,000 in assets in municipal bonds held by the Bank of America as security on a loan. Around 1956, Eddie Fisher and his agent Lew Wasserman were discussing roles for Fisher's acting debut. A project being discussed at the time was "What Makes Sammy Run?" by Budd Schulberg and Stuart Schulberg . Fisher wanted to play aggressive producer Sammy Glick, "the ultimate Jewish hustler. I knew a lot of real Sammy Glicks and I felt confident that was a character I could play." Lew Wasserman decided that the character was too much of a classic negative Jewish stereotype and that it would be bad for Fisher to play it. So Fisher went in the complete opposite direction (in retrospect, perhaps too far) with then-wife Debbie Reynolds in the squeaky clean comedy that Fisher hated, Bundle of Joy (1956), a film made to capitalize on the birth of their daughter, future Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) "Princess Leia" Carrie Fisher .

The Schulberg project "What Makes Sammy Run?" was eventually produced in two parts for Sunday Showcase (1959): Sunday Showcase: What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 1 (1959) and Sunday Showcase: What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 2 (1959). In Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), he appeared uncredited as a street urchin begging for food from Catherine Holly, the character played by his wife at the time, Elizabeth Taylor . He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6241 Hollywood Boulevard for Television at 1724 Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Married Elizabeth Taylor 3½ hours after divorcing Debbie Reynolds . Taylor was the widow of his close friend Michael Todd . He was interred next to the ashes of his last wife, Betty Lin, at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California,. In 1951, he was drafted into the United States Army where he was singing with the Army Band and touring bases overseas. He is survived by six grandchildren. Personal Quotes (4) Debbie Reynolds was indeed the girl next door.

But only if you lived next door to a self-centered, totally driven, insecure, untruthful phony. By the time I was thirty-three years old I'd been married to America's sweetheart and America's femme fatale and both marriages had ended in scandal; I'd been one of the most popular singers in America and had given up my career for love; I had fathered two children and adopted two children and rarely saw any of them; I was addicted to methamphetamines and I couldn't sleep at night without a huge dose of Librium. And from all this I had learned one very important lesson: There were no rules for me. I could get away with anything so long as that sound came out of my throat. [on Richard Burton ] Who could take that scruffy arrogant buffoon seriously? On his service in the United States Army: The Army gave me a lot more than I gave it. Why I did shows I never would have done. In the rain, the mud, off the backs of trucks, without a mike and sometimes without even music.

See also Eddie Fisher | Hollywood Walk of Fame Caucasian Edwin Jack "Eddie" Fisher was an American singer and entertainer, who was one of the world's most famous and successful singers in the 1950s, selling millions of records and having his own TV show. He was married to Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, and Connie Stevens. His divorce from his first wife, Debbie Reynolds, to marry his best friend's widow, Elizabeth Taylor, garnered scandalously unwelcome publicity at the time. Fisher, fourth of seven children, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Russian-born Jewish immigrants Kate and Joseph Fisher. His father's surname was originally Tisch or Fisch, but was anglicised to Fisher upon entry into the United States. To his family, Fisher was always called "Sonny Boy", a nickname derived from the song of the same name in Al Jolson's film The Singing Fool. Fisher attended Thomas Junior High School, South Philadelphia High School, and Simon Gratz High School. It was known at an early age that he had talent as a vocalist and he started singing in numerous amateur contests, which he usually won. He made his radio debut on WFIL, a local Philadelphia radio station.

He also performed on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, a popular radio show which later moved to TV. Because he became a local star, Fisher dropped out of high school in the middle of his senior year to pursue his career. By 1946, Fisher was crooning with the bands of Buddy Morrow and Charlie Ventura. He was heard in 1949 by Eddie Cantor at Grossinger's Resort in the Borscht Belt. After performing on Cantor's radio show he was an instant hit and gained nationwide exposure. He then signed with RCA Victor. Singer, Serial Star Romancer Eddie Fisher Dies | E! News Singer, Serial Star Romancer Eddie Fisher Dies By Email Bettmann Eddie Fisher was known for his scandalous love life just as much as, if not more than, the voice that made him a star. The singer, who was married five times and in 1958 divorced Debbie Reynolds to hook up with Elizabeth Taylor , died Wednesday night at a Berkeley hospital of complications following hip surgery. He was 82.

Fisher's major hits as a crooner included the standards "Thinking of You," "Any Time" and "I'm Yours." But it was the stories that inspired his 1999 autobiography Been There, Done That that set Hollywood tabloids ablaze for decades afterward. Fisher, one of seven children born to a Philadelphia grocer, moved to New York as a teenager to pursue a singing career. He sold millions of records and became a favorite among the teenybopper set. He tied the knot with Singin' in the Rain star Debbie Reynolds in 1955. They had two children, Todd and Carrie Fisher , and were tauted as "America's Favorite Couple." Hulton Archive/Getty Images Until Fisher's buddy, film and theater producer Mike Todd, was killed in a plane crash, that is. Fisher fell in love with Todd's grieving widow, Elizabeth Taylor. They were married in May 1959 after he secured a quickie divorce from Reynolds. Carrie Fisher was reportedly furious with her father over the things he wrote about Reynolds in Been There, Done That, in which he stated that her wholesome image was a careful construct.

"Debbie's whole life has been an act," Fisher wrote (and that was one of the nicer sentiments). Carrie Fisher, for her part, threatened for a time to change her last name to Reynolds. Taylor famously converted to Judaism for Fisher, who had a small role in Butterfield 8, for which she won an Oscar, but Liz ultimately left him for Richard Burton. (And the rest of that is history.) Fisher married Connie Stevens in 1967, resulting in the arrival of daughters Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher, but they were done two years later. The singer, who branched out into acting but never found the same success as he had selling records, was also linked to Judy Garland and Ann-Margret. "All those romances took too much energy," Fisher told the Los Angeles Times in 1990. "But before you do anything, you've got to work. Romance is for kids.

There are times when everything is perfect, but it doesn't last." He was married to fourth wife Terry Richards, a 21-year-old beauty queen, for a matter of months, then settled down with Betty Lin, who he stayed married to from 1993 until her death in 2001. "Late last evening the world lost a true America icon," Fisher's family said in a statement Thursday. "One of the greatest voices of the century passed away. He was an extraordinary talent and a true mensch." _______ Brazil E! Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. Would you like to view this in our US edition? E! Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. Would you like to view this in our Canadian edition? E! Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. Would you like to view this in our UK edition? E! Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. Would you like to view this in our Australian edition? E! ist überall Dieser Inhalt ist für internationale Besucher verfügbar. Möchtest du ihn in der deutschen Version anschauen? E! Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience.

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Question: Which US singer married Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens?
Answer: Eddie Fisher