Taking Centre Stage
Add another accomplishment to Dolly Parton’s already-impressive résumé: acting. With her big break on The Porter Wagoner Show early on in her career, she has occasionally appeared on stage throughout the years. She starred in her own show Dolly! in the mid-1970s and another TV program in the mid-1980s.
In the movie 9 to 5 (for which she sang an Oscar-nominated song), she also plays a secretary who allies with her co-workers, all of whom are sick of their sexist boss. Her second film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas was also a musical that showed in theatres in 1982. The two movies were praised by critics and enjoyed widespread international success.