Actress Melinda Dillon of 'A Christmas Story' and 'Close Encounters' dies at 83
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By Jay Croft, CNN Actress Melinda Dillon, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for the movies “A Christmas Story” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” has died, according to a cremation service in Long Beach, California. She was 83.
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By Jay Croft, CNN Actress Melinda Dillon, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for the movies “A Christmas Story” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” has died, according to a cremation service in Long Beach, California. She was 83.
Oscar-nominated actress Melinda Dillon, best remembered as Ralphie's mother in "A Christmas Story" and for climbing Devils Tower with Richard Dreyfuss in search of UFOs in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," has died at age 83.
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