Q: The Academy award-winning best actress from 1980 played the film role of "the first lady of country music." Name the actress, the film, and the singer portrayed in the film.
Loretta Lynn was one of the first female superstars in country music and remains a defining presence within the genre; with her strong, clear, hard-country voice and tough, no-nonsense songs about husbands who cheat and wives who weren't about to be pushed around, Lynn introduced a feminist mindset to Nashville years before the phrase "women's liberation" became common currency. Coal Miner's Daughter is a screen adaptation of Lynn's autobiography, starring Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn. One of eight children born to Ted Webb (Levon Helm), a coal miner raising a family despite grinding poverty in Butcher's Holler, KY, Loretta married Dolittle "Mooney" Lynn (Tommy Lee Jones) when she was only 13 years old. A mother of four by the time she was 20, Lynn began singing the occasional song at local honky-tonks on weekends, and at 25, she cut (at Mooney's suggestion) a demo tape that earned her a deal with an independent record label. Loretta and Mooney's tireless promotion of the record (including a long road trip through the south in which they stopped at every country radio station they could find) paid off -- Loretta's first single, "Honky Tonk Girl," hit the charts and earned her a spot on the Grand Ole Opry. Stardom called and Loretta never looked back, but success brought with it both joy (a long string of hit records and sold-out concerts and a close friendship with Patsy Cline) and sorrow (a nervous breakdown brought on by overwork and a great deal of stress to a marriage that endured -- but just barely). Sissy Spacek won an Academy award for her vivid, thoroughly natural performance as Loretta (she also did her own singing), and Levon Helm (drummer for the legendary rock group the Band) made an impressive screen debut as her father. Ernest Tubb makes a cameo appearance as himself.
Sissy Spacek - Loretta Lynn
Tommy Lee Jones - Doolittle "Mooney" Lynn
Beverly D'Angelo - Patsy Cline
Levon Helm - Ted Webb
Phyllis Boyens - Clara Webb
Ernest Tubb - Himself
Robert Elkins - Bobby Day
Bob Hannah - Charlie Dick
Bill Anderson, Jr. - Webb Children
Foster Dickerson - Webb Child
Malla McCown - Webb Child
Pamela McCown - Webb Child
Kevin Salvilla - Webb Child
Sissy Lucas - Loretta and Mooney's Child
Brian Warf - Loretta & Mooney's Child
Elizabeth Watson - Loretta and Mooney's Child
David Barry Gray - Doc Turner
Michael Baish - Storekeeper
Doug Bledsoe - Cowboy at Grange Hall
Allison Caine - [Voice]
Royce Clark - Hugh Cherry
Charles Kahlenberg - Business Manager
Merle Kilgore - Cowboy at Tootsie's
Susan Kingsley - Girl at Fairgrounds
Frank Mitchell - Washington Neighbor
Gary Parker - Radio Station Manager
Pat Patterson - Loretta's Children
William Sanderson - Lee Dollarhide
Billy Strange - Speedy West
David Thornhill - The Coal Miner's Band
Jim Webb - Bus Driver
Billy West - The Patsy Cline Band
A: SISSY SPACEK / COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER / LORETTA LYNN
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