Dolly Parton’s Trash Became a Souvenir from the Set of “A Smoky Mountain Christmas”

Dolly Parton's Trash Became a Souvenir from the Set of "A Smoky Mountain Christmas"
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Have you ever seen Dolly Parton’s 1986 made-for-TV movie, “A Smoky Mountain Christmas”?  If you didn’t know, it was directed by The Fonz, Henry Winkler.  He spoke about working with Dolly at Rhode Island Comic Con.

 

Henry said Dolly was, quote, “everything you can imagine she was and more . . . The most amazing star, she just was a powerful being on this earth. Truly, I was honored to direct her first television movie.”

 

He also shared a fun story about how one of the actors was disappointed that he couldn’t take a souvenir home from the set, since it would be stealing.  Then the boom operator came up with a great suggestion.

 

Quote, “She was writing music, and she crumpled it up and threw it in the trash can.”  So he told the guy, “It was gonna be trash anyway. You could take that.”

 

 

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