![]() ![]() In life and on film, she radiates bon mots and no-bullshit charm. It follows that Parton’s movies are populated by brassy, feminine, unapologetic women with good intentions and lilting southern accents. Instead, she infuses each role with her presence, and they vibrate with her wit and kindness, simultaneously giggly and self-possessed. By the very nature of who she is, how she speaks, and how she looks, she is functionally unable to disappear into a character. She’s a character actor the way Joe Pesci and Arnold Schwarzenegger are character actors. There’s a reason we don’t praise Parton for her range. And she was frequently irresistible in those roles. Following her lauded 9 to 5 debut in 1980, she amassed a filmography of feel-good, music-filled films. Prior to going Hollywood, Parton filmed a cool 218 episodes of The Porter Wagoner Show, followed by a single season of her own variety show, Dolly. By the time Jane Fonda was developing 9 to 5 and laughing aloud at the spontaneous thought of the Queen of Country as a secretary, Dolly Parton already understood the power of the moving image and how to move within it. ![]() With a new entry launched into the cinematic Dollyverse, it’s only right to step back and evaluate Parton’s four decades in Hollywood. She’s currently winding down the year with a hat trick consisting of a new Christmas album ( A Holly Dolly Christmas), a new Netflix holiday movie ( Christmas on the Square), and the cure for COVID-19 ( via a million-dollar donation that helped develop the promising Moderna vaccine). Photo-Illustration: Vulture, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Netflix and Warner Bros.Ģ020 has been quite the year for America’s favorite prolific musical genius and quippiest kilowatt blonde, the unsinkable Dolly Parton. ![]()
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