When one-time fashion model Jessica Lange debuted as an actress, it was in the 1976 remake of King Kong. Critics wrote her off as a "former and future model."
These same critics have since had to eat crow.
Jessica Lange soon established herself as one of Hollywood's most accomplished actresses. Ironically, it was another remake - the 1981 version of The Postman Always Rings Twice, co-starring Jack Nicholson - that did it.
Since then, she has bowled over audiences in Frances (playing actress Frances Farmer), Sweet Dreams (as country singer Patsy Cline), Men Don't Leave, Blue Sky, and Big Fish, to name a few.
Perhaps her most memorable role, however, was in Tootsie as soap opera actress Julie Nichols, the love interest of Dustin Hoffman's cross-dressing character.
She plays Jacqueline Kennedy's eccentric Aunt Edie in the HBO adaptation of the biographical documentary Grey Gardens, premiering this weekend.
2 comments:
The critics may have had to eat crow since "King Kong," but she really and truly was awful in that movie. ;-D
I'm sure she was, as it was her first major movie, and the movie itself was probably awful in comparison to the 1933 original. Me, I've never seen the 1976 remake. But I have seen "Tootsie." :-)
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