| 1. Debbie had Scottish, Irish, and English descent. |
| 2. She was raised in a strict Nazarene church. |
| 3. At 16, she won the Miss Burbank beauty contest. |
| 4. Her song "Tammy" earned her a gold record and was the top-selling single by a female vocalist in 1957. |
| 5. Starring in The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) led to an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. |
| 6. Her first husband, Eddie Fisher, left her for her friend Elizabeth Taylor. |
| 7. She signed a Warner Bros. contract in 1948 at age 16 after winning a beauty contest. |
| 8. She performed on stage, television, and in films into her 80s. |
| 9. She was known to another generation for her role as Grace's mother, Bobbi, on TV's Will & Grace. |
| 10. She was known to another generation for her role as Aggie Cromwell in the Halloweentown film series (1998-2006). |
| 11. She was the mother of actress and author Carrie Fisher and actor Todd Fisher. |
| 12. She was a humanitarian and film historian. |
| 13. She performed in Las Vegas revues and on the Broadway stage. |
