Whenever a major recording artists dies, his or her back-catalogue soars in popularity even if they have been out of the spotlight for a while. When a well-known actor or actress dies, interest in their old movies picks up, though not usually at the same level as a rock star’s.

On December 27, 2016, Carrie Fisher, best remembered as Princess Leia from the original Star Wars and its sequels, died without having recovered from a medical emergency on board a flight from London on December 23rd. The day after Carrie’s death, her mother, screen legend Debbie Reynolds, suffered a stroke and died less than 30 hours after her daughter. Debbie’s death from an obvious broken heart has not only stirred memories in long-time fans, but has spurred interest from younger audiences, many of whom, if they know her at all, only do so from re-runs of TV’s Will & Grace. Interest in the work of the actress, who died at the age of 84, is way beyond what one would expect of someone who has not been front-and-center before the public in decades.

For those who need a little help in deciding which of Debbie’s many films to view in the wake of her passing, here in chronological order are a baker’s dozen suggestions:

Debbie won a Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for 1950’s Three Little Words in which she played Helen Kane, but the film that made her a star was 1952’s Singin’ in the Rain for which she not only learned to dance professionally, but learned to dance with Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor, two of the best. Regarded by many as the best screen musical of all-time, this delightful romp about the early days of talkies featuring the music of Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, showcases Debbie’s singing and gift for comedy as well as her newly learned dancing skills.

Debbie earned her dramatic chops in 1956’s The Catered Affair for which she won the National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actress as a prospective bride in the company of Oscar winners Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine as her parents and Barry Fitzgerald as her great-uncle.

Debbie not only had a box-office hit with 1957’s Tammy and the Bachelor, but her recording of the Oscar-nominated title tune “Tammy” became a number one hit as well. She was ably supported by Leslie Nielsen and veterans Walter Brennan, Mildred Natwick, Sidney Blackmer, Fay Wray, and Louise Beavers.

Bing Crosby put on his clerical collar to play a priest for the first time since The Bells of St. Mary’s as one who ministers to the Broadway theatrical community in 1960’s Say One for Me in which Debbie supplies her special spark as his most faithful of parishioners. Robert Wagner and Ray Walston also turn in memorable performances.

Debbie is a San Francisco debutante engaged to Napa Valley cattle-rancher Tab Hunter in 1961’s The Pleasure of His Company with Fred Astaire as her estranged father, Lilli Palmer as her exasperated mother, Gary Merrill as her nice guy stepfather, and Charlie Ruggles as her maternal grandfather in this hit adaptation of the Broadway comedy.

It took three screens, three directors, almost three hours, and a screen-full of stars to tell us How the West Was Won in this 1963 classic, but Debbie was the only one of a cast that included Gregory Peck, James Stewart, Carroll Baker, George Peppard, Carolyn Jones, Henry Fonda, and John Wayne, who is on the screen from the beginning in the 1830s to the end in the 1880s. She goes from naïve young girl to saloon singer to nice old lady with aplomb.

Debbie received her only Oscar nomination for her portrayal of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, the feisty backwoods girl who survived a flood, helped her husband earn a fortune and survived the Titanic in this 1964 adaptation of the smash hit Broadway musical, a role she won over original star Tammy Grimes and producers’ choice, Shirley MacLaine.

Not the real life 1960s singing sensation known as The Singing Nun, but Debbie’s Belgian Dominican nun in this 1966 film is a reasonable facsimile. The film is much better than critics of the day led audiences to believe, most of them citing Greer Garson’s false eyelashes as the Mother Prioress as a major turnoff.

The corpses pile up in 1971’s What’s the Matter with Helen? in which Debbie and Shelley Winters are the dance school teachers whose sons are convicted Leopold-Loeb style thrill killers. Debbie is the sensible one, Shelley the crazy one, in this horror comedy gem that deserves to be better known.

Debbie returned in triumph as Albert Brooks’ eccentric mother in her first starring role in a quarter of a century in 1996’s Mother. The role earned her a Golden Globe nomination and a Satellite award, but egregiously, no Oscar nomination. As the saying goes, she was robbed!

At 66, Debbie had to wear a white wig to make her look old enough to be Neil Patrick Harris’ grandmother in The Christmas Wish, a sweet 1998 TV movie also starring Naomi Watts. Debbie’s wish is for her grandson to find the woman mentioned in her late husband’s journals. It’s not what you expect.

Carrie co-wrote the 2001 TV movie These Old Broads in which Debbie, Shirley MacLaine, and Joan Collins play 1960s actresses who agree to appear on a reunion show despite that they hate one another and their former manager, Debbie’s longtime nemesis, Elizabeth Taylor, who notoriously stole Debbie’s husband, Carrie’s father, Eddie from her in the late 1950s show biz scandal of the 20th Century.

Michael Douglas as Liberace, Matt Damon as his lover, Scott Thorson, and the film’s prosthetics received most of the attention in this critically acclaimed 2013 HBO movie, Behind the Candelabra, while Debbie, who was a friend of the virtuoso pianist in real life, does what she can with her underwritten role as Liberace’s mother, Frances.

If that’s not enough Debbie, take your pick of any of the many other films in which she appeared. Whether the films are good or bad, Debbie herself is always worth watching.

This week’s new releases include The Accountant and Birth of a Nation.