Debbie Reynolds backstage at the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild…

Debbie Reynolds, an actress who sang and danced her way into film history opposite Gene Kelly in the classic 1952 musical “Singin’ in the Rain,” a movie that helped turn her into a sweetheart of American film, has died. She was 84. Reynolds, who was a major collector of Hollywood memorabilia and toured in a one-woman revue into her 80s, died Wednesday in Los Angeles, her son told the Associated Press.