What did Frank Sinatra tell Debbie Reynolds about Eddie Fisher?
It seems that Frank Sinatra was very capable regarding advice on marriage. As you may know, one of Frank’s biggest competitors in the 1950’s was Eddie Fisher who died this week at the age of 82. Eddie Fisher will long be remembered more for his marriage to singer/actress Debbie Reynolds and the divorce to marry Elizabeth Taylor than his music. This past March, Debbie Reynolds told the British national newspaper The Daily Telegraph that Frank Sinatra told her not to marry Fisher. “When we worked together on ‘The Tender Trap,’ I was engaged to Eddie, and Frank took me to lunch and said, ‘Sweetie, don’t get married. Don’t marry a singer. We’re nice guys, but we’re not good husbands,'” she said. “But Eddie was a darling boy, and at the time I loved him very much.
