Melinda Dillon, who played Mother Parker in 'A Christmas Story,' has died at the age of 83
. Her career in the entertainment industry started after she filled in for Barbara Harris after she fell ill at“I had had the American dream — to go to New York and study with Lee Strasberg,” shein 1976.
“I guess I just wasn’t prepared for it all to happen so quickly in New York. I’m not sophisticated; I hadn’t had any kind of cultural education, at all, so when it came to meeting people, and presenting any kind of ideas I might have to offer, I would be terrified.”
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