Beverly D’Angelo

She should’ve had an Oscar for coal miners daughter

^Agreed.

She started as a cartoonist, then became an actress and she can also sing. Triple threat!

M.F.

She’s a real character. Seems like lots of fun.

R1, R2, right before opening the thread and seeing your comments I went to look at IMDb because I was SURE she had been nominated for that, but she wasn’t!!

We should have an Oscar’s All-Stars contest like Drag Race to nominate and award folks that either weren’t nominated or were and should’ve won but didn’t.

If they let Rupaul host it, it’ll get higher ratings than the regular Oscars, so it’s win-win.

Yaaaasssss Mother

Columbus, Ohio’s own.

Her Instagram is fun- She is a great lady

She’s good in the new True Lies tv series.

I’m a gold star gay & my breath was taken away by the first shot of her in Hair. And her Patsy Cline? So damn sexy.

Yes, I loved her appearance in Coal Miners Daughter. She could have out acted Jessica Lange if she had played Patsy Cline.

Also came to say her Insta is fun. She seems to have interesting friends. She was at Buck Henry's bedside when he died, for instance.

When they interviewed her on Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast she was a hoot. Great stories.

Blocking the fake gay who is sexually attracted to Beverly.

I read somewhere (Movieline, I think) that many of her scenes in Coal Miner’s Daughter were edited out, and if they had bern kept in the film, she would have been nominated with Sissy for Lead Actress.

I loved her in HAIR !!

My husband bought me a Cameo birthday greeting from Beverly several years ago. She was very nice, eager, and pretty. She seemed authentic.

I loved when she was vigorously masturbating in front of Cristina Raines in The Sentinel. It’s a shame Raines was such a terrible actres.

LOVE her.

Always found her attractive

I think she had work done to decrease her legendary overbite.

Love her. She was so good in those Vacation movies and played her role straight, never winking at the camera. I loved the scene where she and Chevy sing "Mockingbird." Hilarious.

She was awesome in Coal Miner's Daughter. Both she and Sissy Spacek have singing chops.

The only weird thing was getting involved with Al Pacino and having twins.

Very slutty, Used to do threesomes with Richard Pryor and his wife.

I know this was a joke. But this caught something very country and very human.

She’s great.

“Your wife don’t understand you,

but I do”

I remember my parents agreed to let pubescent me watch "Vacation" on VHS with them -- they had already seen it in the theater -- but insisted on fast-forwarding through the part where Beverly shows her tits. Of course I couldn't have cared less, I was too busy wishing Anthony Michael Hall would take his shirt off.

R21 - Agreed. And quite nice tits too.

Maybe I’m misremembering, but could have sworn there was a thread here not all that long ago claiming she was hard to work with.

I don’t care if she’s hard to work with.

In this case, the juice is worth the squeeze.

I wasn't aware she was hard to work with but I know Chevy was and they must get along as they are always doing things together since the first Vacation.

She plays a great trumpet

She and Al Pacino remain close. Sounds like they spend a lot of time together.

She would have been good, better than Meryl, in Postcards From the Edge.

R26 Gotta love parents. I’m sure the scene where Audrey was on the seesaw with Cousin Vicki (Jane Krakowski) and she tells Audrey her that her father (Randy Quaid) said she was the best French kisser went over their heads.

I saw her in the early 70s in Gower Champions musical Rockabye Hamlet and she played Ophelia. She killed herself by strangling herself with a microphone cord.

Her debutante look in Hair was to die for

I seem to recall reading D'Angelo was hurt when she didn't get to portray Patsy Cline in Sweet Dreams. Does anyone know if she auditioned for Sweet Dreams and was turned down or was Jessica Lange always attached to star? Both films had the same producer so it seems like it would have been natural to cast D'Angelo again.

R37 I remember this, too. Everyone was blown away by Beverly in CMD. Moviegoers wanted her to get an Oscar nomination and wanted to see more of her as Patsy…and evolve to big dramatic roles but none of that happened and she never ascended to more than B minus list. I do not know if she auditioned for Sweet Dreams but Jessica was hitting her heights at that time. Also, by 5 years (CMD to Sweet Dreams) the Patsy buzz had faded for Beverly.

She had a great rack. Maybe still does?

I loved her as an abusive mother in a totally forgotten movie she made with Eric Roberts and Johnny Depp in the late 80’s called Slow Burn. I was very affected by it at the time.

She's 71 and still eerily beautiful. She played the evil fairy in Shelly Duvall's imagining of "Sleeping Beauty" full tilt-- creepy as hell.

YIKES

Before the famous strangulation in Rockabye Hamlet.

It's not that she's hard to work with, it's more that she's kind of unhinged. Can be very pleasant and charming, but then the slightest thing can send her off into weirdness. Kind of another version of Carol Kane, but not as consistently kooky.

I met her when she was just starting out and she was strikingly beautiful, much more so than she appears in films. The camera didn't do her justice.

She and Amy Poehler could play mother and daughter.

On Gilbert's podcast, she said that although Chevy Chase was a notorious prick to everyone, he was always nice to her and she has nothing but fond memories of him.

She also tells the story of working in Toronto titty bar (as a singer, not as a dancer), and working the "Commune Circuit" of Western Canada at the tail end of the hippie era.

R44 I love her but she’s a mood ring-ish / “I was in my 20s in the 1970s”-type B/C actress. Kind of like Sarandon should have been. Where does Beverly fall on the Susan Tyrell scale?

r4, "Mein Fuhrer" is only for when a similar (and TIMELY) topic has JUST been posted earlier within the last week or so.

You seriously cannot expect other Dataloungers never to repeat any topics ever. That's obnoxiously controlling, Aspie-like behavior.

How quaint a notion.

R15 Thanks for letting us know

The structural power of her face, with her saucer eyes and sleek nose, recalls Joan Crawford when young--peak-gorgeous Crawford of the 1930s. I always hoped she would star in a biopic about JC, but alas, we ended up with Faye, all tight-assed face and way past her prime.

Also love D'Angelo's overbite, which is strangely beautiful, the way Gene Tierney's was. I'm glad she didn't try to fix it.

R51 here again. Unfortunately, I see she's been getting a little overzealous with the surgery.....

I love a good overbite, I thought Rosanna Arquette was the epitome of beauty in the 1980s, though I was also a ten year old gay boy, so there you go...

Slow Burn. Eric Roberts was so cute back then. And Johnny Depp isn't even featured in the trailer.