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Father of the Bride

After the legendary Elizabeth Taylor died last month, DVD sets of her films were inevitable, and Warner Home Video has scheduled the first one in its TCM Greatest Classic Films line. The DVD set TCM Greatest Classic Films: Legends — Elizabeth Taylor will be released on July 12.

The two-disc package will include four of Taylor’s best movies:

Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play starring Taylor as frustrated Southern belle wife Maggie the Cat and Paul Newman (The Hustler) as her disillusioned ex-athlete husband.

Father of the Bride (1950), in which Taylor is the bride and Spencer Tracy (State of the Union) is her harried father in this comic celebration of an American rite (and wrongs) of passage.

Butterfield 8 (1960), which won Taylor won her first Best Actress Academy Award, as she played a call girl whose life comes with a complete set of emotional baggage,...

82-year-old was the father of 'Star Wars' actress Carrie Fisher.

By Gil Kaufman

Eddie Fisher

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Eddie Fisher, one of Hollywood's original bad boys, died on Wednesday at the age of 82. Fisher, as well known for his string of top 40 hits as he was for a scandalous personal life that included struggles with addiction and multiple marriages to Hollywood starlets like Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds, died in Berkley, California, due to complications from recent hip surgery, according to a statement released by his family.

"He was loved and will be missed by his four children: Carrie, Todd, Joely, and Tricia Leigh as well as his six grandchildren," read the statement, according to Reuters. "He was an extraordinary talent and a true mensch ['decent person' in Yiddish]."

The fourth of seven children born to Russian-born Jewish immigrant parents in Philadelphia on August 10, 1928, Fisher began his singing career as a child,...

After suffering complications from recent hip surgery, 1950s pop icon Eddie Fisher passed away at the age of 82. "Late [Wednesday] evening, the world lost a true American icon," Fisher's family said in a statement. "He was an extraordinary talent and a true mensch." Father to Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher, he died in his home in Berkeley, Calif. The statement also read: "He was loved and will be missed by his four children: Carrie, Todd, Joely, and Tricia Leigh as well as his six grandchildren."The late Fisher was one of the most successful pop voices of the 1950s, with chart-toppers like "I Need You Now,...