LAWSUIT SAYS ACTRESS REYNOLDS, SON BREACHED CONTRACT 


Associated Press 

December 30, 2004



The former owner of a shopping center Wednesday sued actress Debbie Reynolds and her son, Todd Fisher, for allegedly breaching their contract to display Hollywood memorabilia.

TrizecHahn Hollywood said in a Superior Court lawsuit that it had signed a lease agreement with Reynolds and Fisher in June 2001 to house the merchandise at the center located in Hollywood.

The company said that Reynolds announced in March that the collection - valued between $30 million to $50 million - would be moved to the Belle Island Village Resort in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. She and her son also failed to make lease payments, the lawsuit said.

Another company, the CIM Group, now owns the shopping and entertainment complex.

Phone calls and e-mail messages to Reynolds and Fisher were not immediately returned.

The collection consists of more than 3,500 costumes and thousands of props, movie posters, photographs and other precious items, including the white dress Marilyn Monroe wore as she stood above a subway grate in the 1955 film "The Seven Year Itch," the resort said in a statement.

The lawsuit also names as defendants the Hollywood Motion Picture Collection and the Hollywood Motion Picture Museum, which was formed by Reynolds in 1972 and its chief executive officer is Fisher.

TrizecHahn is seeking $2 million in compensatory damages and unspecified punitive damages, the lawsuit said.

Reynolds, the mother of actress Carrie Fisher, starred as Gene Kelly's dance partner in the 1952 film "Singin' in the Rain." She received an Academy Award nomination for the 1964 movie "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."

 

 

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