Minnie Pearl

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

A cidade de Butcher Hollow, no Kentucky, tem na exploração das minas de carvão sua única atividade econômica. Lá nasceu Loretta (Sissy Spacek), uma dos 8 filhos de Ted Webb (Levon Helm), um mineiro que criou sua família, apesar de ser bem pobre. Quando tinha apenas 13 anos Loretta se casou com Doolittle Lynn (Tommy Lee Jones). Com 20 anos ela já tinha 4 filhos e tudo indicava que seria uma dona de casa pelo resto da vida. Nesta época ela começou a cantar ocasionalmente para sua família. Seu dom começou a ser notado por Doolittle, que a presenteou com um violão. Com o estímulo do marido, ela grava um disco independente e os dois fazem de tudo para que o disco seja divulgado. Aos poucos Loretta se torna conhecida no mundo da música country, o que faz com que se torne amiga de Patsy Cline (Beverly D'Angelo), que era na época a maior estrela da country music. Mas junto com o sucesso também vieram diversas apresentações, que deixavam Loretta cada vez mais esgotada física e psiquicamente.

In this musical gem, big-hearted Jubal Bristol (Arnold Stang) takes it upon himself to mount a country and western benefit concert after the opera company that his wife (Pamela Hayes) booked suddenly backs out. Along with country icons Minnie Pearl, Dottie West, Connie Smith and Faron Young, the film features great tunes such as "Born to Lose," "Abilene" and "Young Love." Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey (of Bowery Boys fame) portray stagehands.

A singer determined to make it in country-western music lets nothing stand in his way, including stealing. The girl who loves him and a female preacher try to straighten him out and help him make it legitimately.

Overlooked when the Tennessee legislature reapportioned the state, the 40-acre community of Shagbottom is discovered and notified to elect a state representative. The feud between Pa Culpepper and Uncle Foxey Calhoun resurfaces, with several incidents occurring at Postmaster Amos Quint's general store between Simon Crumb and Uncle Foxey, while at the Culpepper farm Ma Culpepper is trying to persuade Pa not to run for office. Lovers Nancy Calhoun and Del Culpepper are separated by the hostilities until the Smokey Mountain Jamboree arrives to televise the election and their country music revue.

Starring Jim Reeves, Webb Pierce, and Marty Robbins along with appearances by Ray Price, June Carter, and Ernest Tubb (and many more!), this film takes you back to the country music of 1960's Nashville. Don't miss these country legends perform classic country and western tunes.