Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher’s first public bow was a Louella Parsons column announcing “the most welcome baby in the world”. Carrie was a foetus. Her father, Eddie Fisher, was still hoping for a boy. Six months later, Debbie gave birth just before the premiere of her and Eddie’s first, and only, film – the appropriately titled romance Bundle of Joy – and Louella was proven correct. Infant Carrie was born to two young and ill-matched stars and an extended family of hundreds of loving fans who swamped her with stuffed animals and dresses. Debbie pasted six-week-old Carrie’s cards into a scrapbook to say: “See all the commotion you caused!”

– The enduring icon of the swinging 60s

– The ‘most painted woman in the world’

– Australia’s ‘million-dollar mermaid’

Fans didn’t see Debbie and Carrie’s farewell partnership in the film Bright Lights until after both mother and daughter had died, just 24 hours apart in the last days of 2016. “We’re here with a woman who alleges to be my mother,” says Carrie in the documentary’s droll opening line. “I don’t buy it for a minute.”