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Debbie Reynolds, 84, died in hospital on Wednesday afternoon hours after suffering a stroke, just one day after her daughter died.

She was planning Carrie Fisher's funeral when she took ill at her son Todd's home in Beverly Hills. 

Todd confirmed his mother's death as he revealed her final words were: 'I want to be with Carrie'. 

Fisher died on Tuesday aged 60 after suffering a heart attack on a Christmas Eve flight from London to LA.

Debbie rose to stardom in the film Singin' in the Rain and appeared in dozens of films throughout life.

At the peak of her stardom, Reynolds was drawn into a scandal when her husband, singer Eddie Fisher, began an affair with actress Elizabeth Taylor causing them to divorce in 1959.  

Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds, who sang and danced her way into the hearts of millions of moviegoers around the world in musicals such as Singin' in the Rain, (above in 1952) died on Wednesday at age 84.

Reynolds (above in Singin' in the Rain in 1952) died hours after being rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles after suffering a stroke.

Debbie with Gene Kelly in 'Singin' in the Rain,' in 1952.

By the mid-1950s, Reynolds was a major star and world renowned beauty.

Here, the dainty actress hangs her legs over a swimming pool in 1954.

Reynolds was one of the most enduring and endearing Hollywood actresses.

She is pictured here in 1983.

Reynolds is pictured on top of her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

At the peak of her stardom, Reynolds was drawn into a scandal when her husband, singer Eddie Fisher, began an affair with actress Elizabeth Taylor. Reynolds and Fisher divorced in 1959 and he married Taylor. The trio are pictured above in 1958.

Sadly, Reynolds' death came just one day after her daughter, actress Carrie Fisher, died of a heart attack. They are pictured together above in 2011.

Carrie Fisher died on Tuesday after suffering a heart attack while on a transatlantic flight from London to LA.

The mother and daughter are pictured together here in 1972 in New York City.

Reynolds, who rose to stardom in the film Singin' In the Rain, appeared in dozens of films, as she was the vivacious actress, dancer and pop star millions of fans loved.

She is pictured here in 1955.

Eddie Fisher and Debbie got married in 1955, and became parents to Carrie Fisher. They are pictured above together while engaged in 1955 in New York.

In 1955, Reynolds married her first husband Eddie Fisher (pictured cutting their wedding cake together). The wedding was Hollywood's hottest ticket with both Reynolds and her groom carrying serious celebrity pedigree.

As a huge Hollywood A-Lister, Reynolds flew out to entertain the troops in Seoul, South Korea in May 1955.

Reynolds' is seen here in her 1957 movie 'Tammy and the Bachelor'.

The actress had two children, Carrie and Todd, with her first husband, singer Eddie Fisher (pictured holding a three-month-old Carrie in January 1957).

Fisher had an affair with Taylor after her husband, Mike Todd died. Reynolds divorced Fisher, who then went on to marry Taylor. Above left to right in 1957: Mike Todd, Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.

Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie in 1958.

On September 11, 1958, Debbie Reynolds (above) stood outside the side entrance of her home to tell reporters she still loves her husband Eddie Fisher and is 'shocked by what has happened', in reference to him leaving her for Taylor.

Reynolds had another child, Todd, with Eddie Fisher in 1958 before the couple divorced in 1959 (The actress is pictured with her children Carrie, 2, and Todd, 1, in 1959, while working on the set of Say One For Me).

Despite losing her first husband and later suffering two other failed marriages, Reynolds never relented in her love of motherhood. Above, she is seen (left) as a new mother to Carrie in 1956 and (right) greeting her daughter in 1959.

The Hollywood actress and mother-of-two went onto star across from Fred Astaire in The Pleasure of His Company (1961) .

And starred with the likes Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, and John Wayne.

In 1964, she starred alongside Harve Presnell in The Unsinkable Molly Brown, a biographical film about socialite Molly Brown who survived the sinking of the Titanic.  

Eventually Reynolds and Taylor repaired their friendship years later.

Here Reynolds is pictured placing her handprints in the wet cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in 1965.

Her second marriage, to shoe businessman Harry Karl, ended in the early 1970s after he gambled away most of her money.

Financial reasons compelled her to keep working. They are pictured here in 1965.

Reynolds appeared in 1966 movie The Singing Nun, alongside Agnes Moorehead and Greer Garson .

1970 film 'What's the Matter with Helen?' (pictured) turned out to be the last big screen acting role she would have for some 20 years.

'I didn't stop making movies. They stopped making me,' Reynolds told The New York Times in 1996 .

Reynolds went onto perform on cruise ships and in nightclubs and took to the stage in New York and London in the 1970s.

By 1983, Reynolds had a recurring role in the TV series 'Jennifer Slept Here, starring Ann Jillian, and the next year she created and starred in an exercise video, 'Do It Debbie's Way'. In 1987,  Reynolds starred in her first TV movie, 'Sadie and Son' (pictured).

In 1984 she married her third husband, real estate developer Richard Hamlett, and they bought a Las Vegas hotel and casino, where she also performed. Pictured above: Actress Ruta Lee and husband Webster Lowe, Jr. and Reynolds and husband Richard Hamlett together in 1991.

Carrie Fisher and her mother reconciled their differences in the 1990s.

Reynolds would go on to describe it took her daughter '30 years to be happy with her' .

Reynolds and son, filmmaker Todd Fisher, and daughter, actress and screenwriter Carrie Fisher, arrive at a luncheon hosted by the American Film Institute September 17, 1998 .

Debbie Reynolds and Joan Collins made a glamorous pair as they attended the 'Debbie Reynolds Alive and Fabulous' press night at the Apollo Theatre, London, in 2010.

Both mother and daughter (pictured together at the 2011 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, 2011) both shared long Hollywood careers, and an irreverant sense of humor.

Reynolds (with her daughter actress Carrie Fisher after accepting her Lifetime Achievement award at the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles in 2015) passed away on Wednesday December 28, following a stroke, just one day after her Carrie died.