reynolds became america's sweetheart and a bona fide triple threat. >> i was dancing for three months, so i was hysterical. >> reporter: earned a best actress oscar nomination for "the unsinkable molly brown." >> that ship may be down, but not me. i'm n syncabsun unsinkable. >> reporter: her first marriage to eddie fisher, carrie's father, ended in a love triangle, leaving for her best friend, elizabeth taylor. reynolds would go on to marry and divorce two more times. >> i don't choose well. i don't blame anybody but myself but i seem to have poor taste in men. >> reporter: reynolds had a volatile relationship with her daughter. carrie fisher famously wrote about in postcards from the edge which was turned into a movie