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Not surprisingly, she is now featured in ad campaigns for the Gap. 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. Her sense of style carries over into her private life as well, and she is often cited as one of the best dressed at red-carpet events. 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. As Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City, Parker was influential in starting a multitude of fashion trends. The Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts was organized after her death in 1986. Fund for UNICEF. 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.

Parker is a National Ambassador for the U.S. She sued the show's production company and received an undisclosed seven-figure settlement. Kennedy, Jr.. When Bel Geddes was well enough to return to the role, Reed was fired. and John F. In her later years she temporarily replaced Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie in the television series Dallas in the 1984-1985 season. Before the marriage, she dated Robert Downey Jr. She won an Academy Award for playing a prostitute in From Here to Eternity.

The two have one son. 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. Parker has been married to fellow actor Matthew Broderick since May 1997. Donna Reed (January 27, 1921 - January 14, 1986) was an American actress. While performing in movies, Parker continued her career on stage, with a lead role as a dog in the critically acclaimed off-Broadway play Sylvia, and Broadway roles in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (with Matthew Broderick), and the Tony Award-nominated Once Upon a Mattress in the role originated by Carol Burnett. In 1999, she starred in Dudley-Do-Right, opposite Brendan Fraser, and in 2000, she had a role in David Mamet's State and Main.

The year 1996 saw roles in The First Wives Club, If Lucy Fell, and Mars Attacks!. A big Woody Allen fan, she starred opposite the renowned filmmaker in the TV movie The Sunshine Boys in 1995, and in that same year, she landed a starring role in the big screen Miami Rhapsody. She had roles in Hocus Pocus, Striking Distance (opposite Bruce Willis), and Ed Wood (1994), with Johnny Depp. More substantial film roles soon followed, including a role opposite Nicolas Cage in Honeymoon in Vegas, in which she had an opportunity to display her comedic talent.

Story. She followed that role with appearances in films such as Footloose, Girls Just Want to Have Fun and L.A. She first came to national attention in the 1982 sitcom Square Pegs, garnering critical acclaim in a show which lasted a single season. In 1978, she was cast as an orphan in Annie, and within a year she took over the title role.