Fisher, a singer who found relatively short-lived popularity in the 1950s, was of course most famous for being at the center of two of the most heavily covered divorces of the 20th century. It was front page news when Eddie left his first wife, Debbie Reynolds, for the recently widowed Elizabeth Taylor, who became his second wife. It was even bigger news when Liz dropped Eddie for Richard Burton.

What’s less well known is that Fisher is one of very few actors who starred opposite two of his wives (Laurence Oliver is apparently the only actor who managed the hat trick of appearing with three of them). Eddie partnered Debbie in “Bundle of Joy” (1956), RKO’s musical remake of the Ginger Rogers vehicle “Bachelor Mother” about a woman who is mistaken for an unwed mother when she finds an abandoned baby. Reynolds, incidentally, was pregnant with their daughter Carrie Fisher when the movie was shot.

Fisher got third billing (after Liz and Laurence Harvey) above the title for his only other acting role in “BUtterfield 8” (1958), which in a bizarre coincidence (or amazing prescience) is scheduled to be shown on Sunday at 6 a.m. EST on Turner Classic Movies. At 12:15 p.m. the same day, TCM will show “Suddenly Last Summer” (1960), which the IMDB claims has an unbilled cameo by Fisher as a “street urchin.” (TCM’s database lists Fisher as appearing unbilled in “All About Eve,” but the IMDB says that’s another Eddie Fisher, who in real life managed the San Francisco theater where some scenes were shot).

Aside from “The Bob Hope Vietnam Christmas Show” (1966), which had brief theatrical exposure, Eddie Fisher didn’t appear in a movie again until he played himself — singing his ’50s hit “Oh My Papa!” at a cocktail party — in “Nothing Lasts Forever” (1984). Carrie Fisher once told me she suggested director Tom Schiller, a pal who she knew from “Saturday Night Live,” hire her dad, who was living on her couch at the time.

“Nothing Lasts Forever” never received a theatrical or legal video release, though Warner Home Video indicated earlier this year that longstanding legal issues have been cleared up and a DVD will be coming eventually. WHV also has the rights to “Bundle of Joy,” released on VHS in 1998 by Turner Home Video just before it was absorbed into WHV.