Jessica Lange as Patsy Cline vs. Beverly D'Angelo as Patsy Cline

Beverly was great. Jessica was terrible. What more needs to be said?

Team Beverly.

Why didn't they use her in Sweet Dreams?

Beverly only got a few minutes of screen time. Jessica carried the entire film. Team Jessica.

#Beverly

Lange was awful.

Lange was terrific.

Beverly was great.

Jessica was great.

"Jessica Lange was absolutely wonderful. I'd like to think that I could've played the part as well, but I don't think I could've played it better." -- Beverly D'Angelo, 1992

Both were great, but one was a supporting part with limited screen time, the other was lead role in practically every scene.

Team Beverly.

Jessica was like Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest: only one level. She was ass-kicking, tough as nails Patsy. I didn't see a complete picture of the woman, just a caricature.

I think Beverly would have acted the role better and brought different levels and shades to Patsy.

Oh, and that ending was sensationalized. Their plane didn't fly into the side of a mountain. The engine quit and they crashed.

I loved em both. Neither did an impersonation and both expertly served the scripts and version they were doing. Beverly was mentor and hero to Sissy and Jessica carried her film with pathos and humor.

Beverly, I mean she looked like Patsy Cline, she had the warm, engaging persona. Lange was too sharp, too skinny, too gawky, too frizzy haired. That's how it struck me at the time. I haven't seen either movie in years.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Patsy Cline? If you’d put him in drag he would have looked like her, and he definitely had the acting chops to pull off the role.

Who dubbed Jessica's singing?

[quote]Who dubbed Jessica's singing?

Patsy Cline

"Sweet Dreams" Academy Award Nominee Jessica Lange Best Actress in a Leading Role

"Coal Miner's Daughter" Golden Globe Nominee Beverly D'Angelo Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Everything you need to know.

Beverly was excellent. She had very little time to establish a real person and she nailed it. If Jessica could have sung her part like Sissy I would have liked her performance more. But I also felt she was one note.

Beverly, she is earthier and physically more like Patsy.

[quote]"Jessica Lange was absolutely wonderful. I'd like to think that I could've played the part as well, but I don't think I could've played it better." -- Beverly D'Angelo, 1992

So polite. Why does Jess never return compliments?

Anyway, yes, D'Angelo is better.

Sweet Dreams is a good film. Directed by karel reisz

[quote]"Sweet Dreams" Academy Award Nominee Jessica Lange Best Actress in a Leading Role "Coal Miner's Daughter" Golden Globe Nominee Beverly D'Angelo Best Actress in a Supporting Role Everything you need to know.

Without Coal Miner's Daughter, there never would have been a Sweet Dreams. Nobody was busting down the doors in Hollywood to do a biopic about Patsy Cline. And the only reason CMD got made was because it was a book first.

[quote]Lange was too sharp, too skinny, too gawky, too frizzy haired. That's how it struck me at the time.

That is true. Patsy was a "sturdy" girl. Jessica looks like a strong wind would blow her away.

One fun thing about June Carter Cash's autobio. A bunch of the country music stars were sent on a road tour. One day Patsy handed a little pill to June. June said that it kept her awake for two days straight. I guess she didn't know what speed was at the time.

Exactly, r22. Patsy was a “sturdy girl” and Phillip Seymour Hoffman was a hefty guy who’d bring the required weight to the role.

Another for #TeamBeverly

There was a coarseness to Beverly's performance that I think was closer to the real Patsy, but they were both good and served a different purpose. I don't think a movie with Beverly in the lead would have affected as large an audience, because Lange played her more as a beautiful spitfire, which more people could relate to.

[quote]Lange played her more as a beautiful spitfire

I don't think that was actually how she was. Lange's is definitely more... Hollywood. But not in a good way.

Jessica got to hook up with Ed Harris. She wins.

Lange was SO miscast as Patsy Cline. Totally unconvincing as the earthy, big-boned country music legend. Lange looked and sounded ridiculous. Patsy Cline with a whispery voice? And that bad wig she wore was atrocious. Beverly D'Angelo was much more believable. And she did her own singing. All Lange could do was lip-synch to Cline's records. THAT voice coming out of HER mouth was hilarious.

"What's the matter, you ain't seen no glamorous star before?"

Patsy appealed to butch lesbians. Jessica played her like she appealed to lipstick lesbians.

This will end in tears.

R30, I was just thinking that kd Lang would have made a great Patsy, but lang would probably not feel comfortable in a wig and 1950-60s women’s western wear.

KD Lang has always looked like a man. Patsy Cline never looked like a man. She was ALL woman.

^.

A nice piece on BD’A with a choice quote from fan Pauline Kael.

[quote]Jessica got to hook up with Ed Harris. She wins.

But her performance loses.

Kathleen Turner in Sweet Dreams. Discuss.

[quote]Without Coal Miner's Daughter, there never would have been a Sweet Dreams. Nobody was busting down the doors in Hollywood to do a biopic about Patsy Cline. And the only reason CMD got made was because it was a book first.

You're CAAAAraaaazy.

[quote] You're CAAAAraaaazy.

It's true. Other than Elvis, how many country music biopics were there before Coal Miner's Daughter?

My God they worked those singers. Just think of how many performances they had to give- at fairs, rodeos, honky tonks- driving on the road all the time- trying to keep up your energy. These modern country stars have no idea how their country music ancestors put up with a lot more bullshit and a lot less glamour than they do. And they could sing!

[quote]Just think of how many performances they had to give- at fairs, rodeos, honky tonks- driving on the road all the time- trying to keep up your energy.

Minnie Pearl said that at state fairs, they would shove her out on stage in the pouring rain and tell her not to touch the microphone.

I would have done my own singing, been big boned, and been nominated.

Beverly sang Patsy beautifully. Jessica couldn't do it at all.

That alone should decide this question that never needed to be raised in the first place.

I wonder why Beverly never did Broadway. She's a great singer. (well she did do Broadway once in the start of her career.)

I could see her having been great as a replacement in Sunset Blvd.

R21: I never understood why they went with Sissy Spacek. In my honest opinion Tammy Cruise would have been perfect in the role of Loretta Lynn. I’d have loved to have seen Tammy on the big screen dressed in drag while belting out “Coal Miner’s Daughter”.

R44, give the woman something better than being a replacement in that dreary piece of shit.

[quote]Jessica got to hook up with Ed Harris. She wins.

That's the bottom line for me as well

Beverly D'Angelo is an underrated actress. She should've had a better career.

Oh, hell. I loved that movie, Sweet Dreams and since I love Jessica I have to say she was Patsy Kline.I thought she was authentic!

[quote]Beverly D'Angelo is an underrated actress. She should've had a better career.

I thought so too. I think she was wasted in the Vacation movies, but a girl's gotta eat.

She played Stella in the Ann Margaret "A Streetcar Named Desire" and I wish they had thought of her when casting the Blythe Danner Broadway version a few years later. But I would have liked to see her do more stage work.

I remember a story Circulating years ago that Beverly D’Angelo referred to her newborn twins as her little SFOs.

Set For Life.

"I have to say she was Patsy Kline.I thought she was authentic!"

uh-huh.

Yes! D'Angelo was Patsy Cline; Lange was Patsy Kline.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

And snacking, evidently.

Lange, of course. Beverly was cute but couldn't even cry on cue. As for her singing... even I wouldn't have attempted trying to do Patsy. I would've lip-synced, too.

Lange was truly DIVINE. Watch me say so below.

She is underrated but I wouldn’t say she’s wasted in the Vacation movies at all - she lends a sardonic quality that just any generic actress wouldn’t have.

The kids were replaceable but she wasn’t.

I didn't know that Jessica Lange was in the Vacation movies. She was lowkey good. She didn't do very many comedies - was she sleeping with Chevy Chase at the time?

Jessica. I like Beverly a lot, but she isn't in the same league as Jessica. Jessica WAS Patsy Kline, and I thought the lip syncing was well done. I'd much rather hear Patsy sing in her own bio pic than some actress. Jessica even has a slight resemblance to Patsy. I've probably watched Sweet Dreams a dozen times over the years.

Lange

Oh no. Matt the Lange Troll was let out of jail. Jessica’s movies suck, except for Tootsie which is a Dustin Hoffman movie.

R61 Erna, stop. Please. Meryl has spoken and that is that on the matter.