Coal Miner's Daughter

Director Michael Apted's opening and a scene that helped popularize the now common phrase, also introducing Sissy Spacek playing singer Loretta Lynn, musician Levon Helm her father and Tommy Lee Jones her future husband, in Coal Miner's Daughter, 1980.

Kentucky, 1948, Sissy Spacek as singer Loretta Lynn, age 16, visiting the doctor after informally separating from her husband Doolittle Lynn (Tommy Lee Jones), whom she encounters outside, in Michael Apted's celebrated bio-pic Coal Miner's Daughter, 1980.

A scene singer Loretta Lynn says is recreated very much as it happened, Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, 1948, Sissy Spacek as the star, not yet 16, Tommy Lee Jones her beau Doolittle Lynn, Levon Helm and Phyllis Boyens her parents, in Coal Miner's Daughter, 1980.

Sissy Spacek won the Academy Award® for Best Actress portraying country singer Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), also starring Tommy Lee Jones.