Broadway to Dim the Lights for Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher

Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher will be remembered at the Golden Globe Awards.

Her Broadway credits include her one-woman show Wishful Drinking, Agnes of God and Censored Scenes From King Kong.

In pictures that will tug on heartstrings, Carrie’s devoted therapy dog, French bulldog Gary, greeted guests at the gate to her home.

“Today it focused a little bit more on Debbie, yesterday focused on Carrie”, Lee said.

Debbie Reynolds with Carrie Fisher backstage of The Shrine Audition.

While the entertainment world is still reeling from the deaths of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds an nearly perfectly timed documentary is about to be released that looks at the real life behind these iconic stars. The dust has now largely settled between their mother-daughter struggles, and the fractious passion has settled into a sustaining warmth.

“The only thing we’re taking solace in is that what she wanted to do was take care of her daughter”, Todd added. Why, Cary Grant of course! The documentary ends with Debbie singing the catchy “Love Is a Thing”.

Fisher, of “Star Wars” fame, was the film’s instigator. The very amusing and very blunt actress always knew how to make an entrance – and entered her own funeral in an urn shaped like a Prozac pill held by her younger brother, Todd Fisher. Yet when I once asked her about her married life – she had three weddings – Debbie responded: “When I look at my life in hindsight, I can tell you that Eddie Fisher was the best of my husbands”. According to her obituary in The New York Times , Debbie came from a family of Nazarene Baptists who thought movies were sinful – imagine that!

“Bright Lights” doesn’t talk about those last days of either woman (it was completed before they died), but it says enough to both celebrate and mourn the talents they brought to the medium.

“It’ll be on the ground in ten minutes.”

Meryl Streep’s presence was particularly poignant. Carrie was eventually diagnosed with Bipolar disorder aged 24. “Carrie didn’t necessarily want to go to Vegas”, the director recalls. How is she going to get along in life?

I think it’s extremely under-diagnosed. “All I could do is love her, and always shall”. “I am not ashamed of that”. But “Bright Lights” explains it takes skill to project that quality through hard times.

Mortality looms over the entire film; Reynolds is aging and barely makes it through her last public appearance.