The Truth About Elizabeth Taylor And Debbie Reynolds' Feud

While Debbie Reynolds fell fast for Eddie Fisher, her The Tender Trap co-star Frank Sinatra tried to talk her out of marrying the singer. "[Sinatra] said, 'Oh, don't marry Eddie.' He said I shouldn't get married to a singer," Reynolds told People. "'We're not faithful. It's ridiculous for you to take this on.' I said, 'Why? I don't think that I will listen to you, I really think he's adorable.' My mother thought he was adorable." But, as everyone knows, Reynolds married Fisher in 1955 and they welcomed two children, Carrie and Todd.

During this time, Reynolds and Fisher remained close friends with Elizabeth Taylor and her husband Mike Todd, after whom Reynolds' son was named. Everyone became so close, in fact, that Reynolds served as Taylor's matron of honor and Fisher served as Todd's best man when the pair wed in 1957. According to Biography, however, Taylor and Todd's marriage was brief, as the film producer died one year later when his private plane crashed in New Mexico.

Stricken with grief, Taylor found comfort in Fisher's arms, as he flocked to her side after Todd's death. As actress Carrie Fisher, Reynolds and Fisher's eldest child, wrote in her one-woman show Wishful Drinking (per Biography), her father "rushed to [Taylor's] side, gradually moving to her front." And just like that, the Unsinkable Molly Brown star was thrust into the industry's most high-profile love triangle of their time.

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