Praise, blame, and red carpet rows: What Hollywood’s mothers and daughters say about e

Debbie Reynolds, who starred Gene Kelly in the 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain, died of a stroke just a day after her losing her daughter, the Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher. She had reportedly told her son: "I miss her so much... I want to be with Carrie." The pair were estranged for a decade, and Fisher admitted: "I didn't want to be Debbie Reynolds' daughter" - a situation her mother called "very painful". However, the pair repaired their bond and became so close in later life that they moved in next door to each other.

Melanie Griffith shot to fame in the film Working Girl, while her daughter Dakota Johnson plays Anastasia Steele in the film Fifty Shades of Grey. The pair made headlines at the 2015 Oscars after an intensely awkward red carpet moment where Griffith admitted she had not seen her daughter's Fifty Shades of Grey, and Johnson responded rudely, "Alright! You don't have to see it. Jesus Christ!"

Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson, who starred in First Wives Club and Almost Famous respectively, are never short of a kind word for each other. Hudson, herself a mother of two, has called Hawn "my great confidante(知己)", saying, "I tell my mom everything!" On Hudson's 37th birthday, Hawn shared a photo of her daughter as a baby and called her "a shining light full of joy".

US actress Blythe Danner, known for her roles in the sitcom Will & Grace, has an Oscar-winning daughter - Gwyneth Paltrow. Danner, who won praise for her 2015 film, I'll See You in My Dreams, has said she hopes her daughter will return to their craft soon. "She's an extraordinary mother and such a brilliant actress. I'm hoping as the children get older she will come back to acting, because to me there's no-one like her, she can do anything."