Country singer and actress Dolly Parton will star in a remake of the 1956 movie "Solid Gold Cadillac" which starred Judy Holliday as a stockholder who exposes corruption in the corporation's board of directors, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Parton, shown May 3, 2000 at the Academy of Country Music Awards ceremony in Universal City, California, will also executive produce the TNT and Columbia TriStar TV movie. BK/CM
Have you seen the old photo of Dolly Parton flying around social media right now? It’s a photobooth shot she took in 1966 when she was 20.
Everyone’s reposting it and making the same joke. How could “Jolene” or ANY woman have been a threat? (Here’s the photo.)
Dolly was in her mid-20’s when she recorded “Jolene”, where she begs a woman who’s prettier, “Please don’t take my man.” (Here she is performing it in 1974, right after it came out.)
She wrote it about a bank teller who kept flirting with her husband. But she got the name from a little girl she signed an autograph for. It stuck in her head because she’d never heard that name before.
In other words, it’s a mish-mash of a few different things. There wasn’t really some hussy named Jolene who tried to steal her guy. But here’s a fun theory . . .
One person reposted the old pic and asked what if Dolly IS “Jolene” . . . and she “wrote the song from the point of view of every OTHER woman in her town.” (Yahoo)
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