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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 on Tuesday, Sept.
17, 2024. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) A C3PO, R2D2, and BB8 owned by Carrie Fisher and part of her brother Todd Fisher’s 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) Items from Todd Fisher, brother of the late Carrie Fisher, 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) Carrie Fisher, director chair and part of her brother Todd Fisher’s 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 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) Princess Leia Hooded Dress from 1977’s A New Hope part of Todd Fisher’s 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) Directors chairs that are part of Todd Fisher’s 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) Carrie Fisher’s screen used Blaster and part of her brother Todd Fisher’s 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) A Yoda figure owned by Carrie Fisher and part of her brother Todd Fisher’s 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 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 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 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 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) He said that after his mother’s dream of creating a museum at her dance studio in North Hollywood didn’t pan out, he “ended up with all of the artifacts that related to Star Wars and Carrie.” He remembers how his sister “didn’t care about any of this stuff.
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She’d throw her scripts away.” He praises the Reagan Library show saying, “The most iconic things here, obviously, are Carrie’s dresses and the metal bikini. Her weapons are unique.
Her blaster is very unique. But you’ll also notice with those items, there are paintings and other pictures that belong to me that are one-off things that are very personal. There are handwritten notes on many posters from Carrie to me, and some of it is actually written in a type of code between Carrie and I growing up.
So I encourage you to read some of the things she wrote on the posters and pictures.” Asked how his mother and sister would feel about the exhibit, he said, “I know for a fact my mother would be off over the moon, because this is her thing, and she loved the Reagans. .
.. Carrie would, I’m sure, have some really funny joke, because even though she voted for Ronald Reagan, later she became a pretty famous Democrat.
So I know she would have some political satire for us, in a beautiful way, though.” The exhibit, which also includes other Star Wars movie memorabilia, and features displays with items from the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), will run until October 13, 2024..
