On this day in 1971, 14-year-old Carrie Fisher makes her performing debut, appearing in her mother’s nightclub act in Sparks, Nevada. Her mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a popular actress with MGM in the 1950s, but her film career faded as she aged, and she shifted her focus to live performance. Fisher went on to co-star in the blockbuster Star Wars movie and its sequels. She wrote a best-selling novel, Postcards from the Edge, based on her struggle with drugs, and another, Surrender the Pink, about her ill-fated marriage to singer Paul Simon.