Joint funeral planned for Reynolds, Fisher
Screen icon Debbie Reynolds and her daughter, Star Wars legend Carrie Fisher, are to be buried side by side among numerous stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, US media reported on Tuesday.
ABC News said a private memorial service limited to family and close friends would take place on Thursday.
Reynolds’s son Todd Fisher told ABC’s 20/20 on Friday he was planning a joint service at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills with the help of Billie Lourd, his niece and Carrie Fisher’s daughter.
The Hollywood Reporter quoted a family source as confirming there would also be an event at the Beverly Hills compound where Reynolds and Fisher were neighbors.
“I’m not sure what they’re calling it — a funeral or a wake — but it will be Thursday at the house,” the source said.
“It will be exactly what they both wanted, to be together.”
The family is understood to be discussing a public memorial, although no plans have been announced.
Other celebrities laid to rest at Forest Lawn include Bette Davis, Reynolds’ onscreen mother in A Catered Affair, and Reynolds’ close friend Liberace.
She didn’t die of a broken heart. She just left to be with Carrie.” Todd Fisher, speaking to 20/20 about his mother and sister
Silent film star Buster K eaton, Oscar-winning Rod Steiger and David Carradine, the star of Kung Fu and Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill films, are also buried there.
Reynolds, who tap-danced her way into moviegoers’ hearts as a star of Singin’ in the Rain, died on Wednesday last week, a day after daughter Carrie Fisher’s death.
The 84-year-old suffered a stroke at the Beverly Hills compound as she was making funeral arrangements for Fisher, who had suffered a heart attack.
“She didn’t die of a broken heart. She just left to be with Carrie,” Todd Fisher told 20/20.
Fisher, who catapulted to worldwide stardom as rebel warrior Princess Leia in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, died in Los Angeles four days after suffering a heart attack on a transatlantic flight. She was 60.