The late actress Carrie Fisher, best known as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy from 1977 to 1983, enjoyed collecting items from the movies she appeared in. This week, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation adds her and brother Todd Fisher’s cherished memorabilia to the exhibition at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, “Star Wars and SDI: Defending America and the Galaxy.” Todd Fisher explained to this newspaper how it all got started by their mother, the late actress Debbie Reynolds, who was “the collector for all of us, and she was building a Hollywood museum.
So she began collecting things, including some of the earlier Star Wars things that ended up in our possession.” “So when Carrie thought it was appropriate, she might set something aside (from a film) and give it to my mother,” he remembered. “She also knew that I collected certain things that she started collecting for me.
” Todd Fisher, brother of the late Carrie Fisher, with items from his personal collection on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Libray’s “Star Wars and SDI: Defending America and the Galaxy” exhibit at the library in Simi Valley on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Todd Fisher, brother of the late Carrie Fisher, with a C3PO, R2D2, and BB8 owned by his sister on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Libray’s “Star Wars and SDI: Defending America and the Galaxy” exhibit at the library in Simi Valley .