Self-Styled Siren

Debbie Reynolds in Her Own Words

25 years of frank and fabulous

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Self-Styled Siren
May 14, 2024
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Debbie with baby Carrie, 1956

Last Mother’s Day, the Siren found herself watching the 1990 Mike Nichols film Postcards From the Edge, which is on the Criterion Channel this month. She still loves the movie, particularly Shirley MacLaine as Doris Mann, the studio-system product who can’t seem to turn off the star quality, even when she wants to. Meryl Str…

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