Understandably, Parton was careful about choosing the people who would step into their shoes. I think I got my spirituality and my positive attitude and my faith from my mother. So they had nothing to work with except love and faith and one another - and Mama had enough faith to move a mountain. My dad was such a hardworking person, and he never had the chance to go to school. “They married when Mama was 15 and Daddy was 17. “Mom had a house full of kids and a love for my daddy that wouldn’t quit,” she says. And I really wanted to pay tribute to my mom and dad and to show who the family was that I came from.” DOLLY PARTON’S COAT OF MANY COLORS - Season: 2015 - Pictured: (l-r) Jennifer Nettles as Avie Lee Parton, Alyvia Alyn Lind as Dolly, Ricky Schroder as Lee Parton - (Photo by: Jeff Lipsky/NBC)Īnd what a family it is - one Parton credits with her own ability to bloom where she’s planted. So when we started putting this show together, Sam and myself wanted to make sure that it really was about celebrating those differences. “They teach this little ‘Coat of Many Colors’ in so many schools now and use it as an anti-bullying song, that we should celebrate the differences in each other. Long to make sure the film echoed the song’s timeless message. “It just touches me that my work has been able to touch people through the years like that.”īecause of that, Parton and Haskell worked closely with screenwriter Pamela K. “I’ve had so many people tell me that has touched them even though it might not have been about a coat or a piece of clothing, but a handicap or being overweight or just being different,” Parton says. Parton calls the movie her gift to viewers in the most faith- and family-centric time of the year. ( Jolene begins filming in early 2016.) The film - which stars Ricky Schroder and Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles as Parton’s parents Robert Lee and Avie Lee, and sparkling 8-year-old Alyvia Alyn Lind as a young Dolly - dramatizes Parton’s true-life tale of growing up in a dirt-poor but unfailingly loving and creative home. This month, NBC brings the tender tune of a family’s love and resilience in the face of tragedy - personified by a little patchwork jacket - to television as part of a deal with the country music legend and her production partner Sam Haskell to produce films based on Parton’s most enduring hits. I already loved the story of the original coat thanks to Sunday school, and since I was a small-town girl with a loving mama, too, I fell hard for that song. I was a little kid growing up in a home filled with country music when Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors” became a radio hit in 1971. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)ĭOLLY PARTON'S COAT OF MANY COLORS - Pictured: Dolly Parton - (Photo by: Quantrell Colbert/NBC).Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window).Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window).Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window).
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