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The definitive memoir by famous actress and performer Debbie Reynolds - an entertaining and moving account of enduring friendships and unbreakable family bonds, of reaching bottom and increasing to the very best again - that offers a unique and deeply personal perspective on Hollywood and its elite, from the glory days and nights of MGM to the present. In the shutting internet pages of her 1988 autobiography Debbie: My Life, Debbie Reynolds had written about finding her "brave, loyal, and adoring" new man. After two destroyed marriages, this third, she believed, was her blessed allure. But within a couple of years, Debbie discovered that he previously betrayed her psychologically and financially, almost destroying her life. Today, she creates, "WHENEVER I read the positive ending of my last memoir now, I can't imagine how naive I used to be when I had written it. In Unsinkable, I look back at the many years since then, and discuss my memories of any film career that needed me from the Pass up Burbank Competition of 1948 to the task I did in 2012.... To paraphrase Bette Davis: Fasten your seatbelts, I've had a bumpy ride." Unsinkable shines a limelight on the resilient woman whose ability and passion on her behalf work have endured for more than six ages. In her participating, down-to-earth tone of voice, Debbie stocks private information regarding her man and money troubles, including building and burning off her NEVADA dream hotel and her treasured Hollywood memorabilia collection. Yet no matter how difficult the issues, the show always goes on. Debbie also invites us into the close group of her family, talking to deep devotion and credibility about her relationships with her children, Carrie and Todd Fisher. She appears back at her life as an actress during Hollywood's Golden Years - "the most wonderful time you might consider" - including her lifelong friendship with (and years-long estrangement from) the famous Elizabeth Taylor. Here, too, are experiences that never reached the tabloids about numerous superstars, such as Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra, Mick Jagger, Gene Kelly, and many more. She needs us over a guided travel through her videos with delightful, often entertaining behind-the-scenes anecdotes about every film where she was engaged, from 1948 to the present. Frank and forthright, and having dozens of previously unseen photographs from Debbie's personal collection, Unsinkable is a poignant reminder that there is light in the darkest times. It is a revealing family portrait of a female whose determination can be an inspiration.