The entertainment world lost many of its notable names and icons in 2016, one of them — Debbie Reynolds. Mal Vincent was friends with the Singing In The Rain legend who also used to live in Virginia. Mal shares what the performer once told him about people from Virginia, plus we'll learn how Mary Poppins once kept Mal from getting a smooch from Reynolds! 
 

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Watch Debbie's performance of "I Ain't Down Yet" in the 1964 film The Unsinkable Molly Brown. 

 

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