Hollywood mother-daughter duo Carrie Fisher and mom Debbie Reynolds were as close in life as they were in their tragically timed deaths—living side-by-side for more than a decade.
Reynolds, the 1950s girl-next-door who rose to fame for roles in "Singin’ in the Rain" and "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," suffered a stroke and died Wednesday, just one day after the death of her famous daughter.
Fisher, a writer and actress best known for her role as Princess Leia in "Star Wars," suffered a heart attack on a flight from London back home to her Los Angeles, and died on Tuesday.
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The pair were open about their sometimes fraught relationship, speaking bluntly on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2011 about feelings of inadequacy and the strain of Fisher’s mental illness. Fisher described herself as being bipolar.
But Reynolds and Fisher seemed to have overcome their battles by the end of their lives, at least enough to live as next-door neighbors in the Coldwater Canyon neighborhood of Beverly Hills for the past 15 years.
In 1993, Fisher was the first to move to the celebrity-filled enclave in Los Angeles, buying a Spanish-style home completely hidden behind a thick of trees for $13.75 million, according to property records from the time.
The four-bedroom, four-bathroom house with around 4,200 square feet of space came with a star pedigree that preceded Fisher, she told Architectural Digest magazine in 2004.
Actor Robert Armstrong, who played the captain in "King Kong," built the original house in 1919, before selling it to actress and costume designer Edith Head, who undertook a rebuild in 1933, Fisher told the magazine. Bette Davis also lived in the home for a time.
Fisher said she chose the three-acre property because she needed an appropriate place to put her large collection of eclectic furnishings—such as oversized leather sofa chairs and paintings of animals in clothes.
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Seven years later, her mother followed her to the Canyon. Reynolds spent about a million dollars, property records show, on a three-bedroom, three-bathroom house, also Spanish Style, closer to the street and directly next to Fisher’s home.
The 2,600-square-foot house has a Hollywood history of its own. The house once belonged to famed English playwright and screenwriter Charles Bennett, according to property records. Bennett, who collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock and co-wrote the first James Bond movie adaptation, owned the house until his death in 1995.
By chance, one of the last projects Reynolds and Fisher did was collaborative—HBO documentary "Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds," which offers an emotional window into their relationship.
In the film, which is scheduled to air early next year, Fisher says, "Mother and I live next door to each other, separated by one daunting hill."
A lawyer for the family did not immediately respond to requests for comment.