Donna Reed

The performing arts center was formerly an opera house built in 1914, and later rennovated into the Ritz Movie Theater where Donna Reed first fell in love with movies. On July 7, 2003, Hollywood actress Pamela Anderson was a featured guest on Saralegui's show. The non-profit organization grants scholarships for performing arts students, runs an annual festival of performing arts workshops, and operates The Donna Reed Center for the Performing Arts. In 2001, she started the recurring role of Tia Cristina Lopez on the American soap opera Passions. The Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts was organized after her death in 1986. She also has several offers to keep acting, including one to appear on The George Lopez Show. She died at age 64 in Beverly Hills, California from pancreatic cancer and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. As an actress, Cristina debuted on The Taina Show.

She sued the show's production company and received an undisclosed seven-figure settlement. She added a Monday night version of her show, but ultimately, her daily show was cancelled and now she only has the Monday night show. When Bel Geddes was well enough to return to the role, Reed was fired. In addition, she is seen on the cover of Maria Antonieta Collins' books, sponsoring them. In her later years she temporarily replaced Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie in the television series Dallas in the 1984-1985 season. Cristina went on to publish her own magazine,(Cristina, La Revista) and several books. She won an Academy Award for playing a prostitute in From Here to Eternity. In another, Trevi spent a large amount of time crying while talking about her life.

Born Donna Belle Mullenger, Reed is probably best remembered for her roles as the wholesome housewife Donna Stone on American television's The Donna Reed Show and as Mary Bailey in Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. In one of her most viewed shows, she put Edgardo Diaz face to face with one of the former members of Menudo, Ralphy Rodriguez, so they could confront each other over allegations of abuse that Rodriguez had made against Diaz. Donna Reed (January 27, 1921 - January 14, 1986) was an American actress. During the 1990s, Cristina's show increased in popularity, her show guests including Don Francisco, the former members of Menudo, Celia Cruz, Thalía, Julio Iglesias, Enrique Iglesias, Jorge Ramos, Gloria Estefan and her husand Emilio, Gloria Trevi, Chayanne, Ricky Martin and many more. Cristina around that time got married to her husband Marcos, a former member of the Miami Sound Machine music band. She led Cosmopolitan through most of the 1980s, and in 1988, she began transforming her journalism success into television success, when she started her TV talk show, El Show de Cristina, on Univision.

Eventually she worked her way up to becoming the editor of the Spanish version of Cosmopolitan magazine. Saralegui was a student in the University of Miami, when she got an internship with Spanish language magazine Vanidades (the Spanish version of Vanity Fair). Cristina's family had built their wealth in the world of newspaper publishing. A member of a prominent family, Saralegui moved to Miami, in 1960, when she was 12 years old.

Cristina Saralegui (born January 29, 1948) is a successful journalist, talk show host and actress who is a native of Cuba.