The deaths of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds shocked fans, and renewed interest in this iconic Hollywood family. Many of the Los Angeles locations associated with the women have become memorials, and gathering places for fans. Here’s a look at five locales around L.A. where you pay tribute to Fisher and Reynolds, too.
SONY Studio
Of course, Reynold’s most famous role was that of Kathy Selden in “Singin’ in the Rain”. The MGM Studio where the movie was filmed in 1952 is now part of SONY Picture Studio in Culver City. The studio is open for tours that include a museum tracing the property’s storied past. Tour tickets can be purchased at SonyPicturesStudiosTours.com.
Chateau Marmont
As for Fisher, one of her last roles was playing herself in the movie “Maps to the Stars”. Her scene in the movie was filmed at the famed Chateau Marmont, a fitting location as the hotel is a notorious Hollywood fixture, not unlike Fisher herself.
Hollywood Boulevard
Being a Hollywood legend, Debbie Reynolds had the industry’s highest honors bestowed upon her, including a Star on the Walk of Fame and her handprints immortalized outside of the TCL Chinese Theatre. Since her death, both of these locations have become memorials to her, while the “Star Wars” square at the Chinese Theatre has become a gathering place for Carrie’s fans. The TCL Chinese Theatre is located at 6925 Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood, while Debbie’s star can be found just down the street at 6662 Hollywood Blvd.
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Both women were laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills. Fittingly, Fisher’s brother Todd was seen carrying her ashes in an urn shaped like a Prozac pill during a memorial for the women at Forest Lawn less than a week after their deaths. According to FindAGrave.com, the women are buried in the cemetery’s Courts of Remembrance, near fellow Hollywood legends Lucille Ball and Bette Davis.
The Compound
The recent HBO documentary “Bright Lights” gave fans a glimpse inside Carrie Fisher’s 2.66 acre estate, located at 1700 Coldwater Canyon Drive in Beverly Hills, which she shared with her mother. As Fisher explains in the film, Reynolds lived in a smaller home on the property, “separated by one daunting hill.” Ina 2004 profile, Architectural Digest described the property as a “hip museum of a house, an ode to the obsessive joy of collecting, is as charming, imaginative, original and fun as the actress-author herself.” Though the estate can’t be accessed by the public, it’s now famous front gates can be seen from the road.
