{"id":419117,"date":"2026-08-28T09:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419117\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:58:14","slug":"amc-theatres-sets-dolly-parton-tribute-steel-magnolias-the-best-little-whorehouse-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419117\/","title":{"rendered":"AMC Theatres Sets Dolly Parton Tribute: ‘Steel Magnolias,’ ‘The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTwo of Dolly Parton<\/a>\u2018s most beloved movies are heading back to the big screen following the country music icon\u2019s death on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

\n\tBeginning on Friday, Aug. 28, AMC Theatres<\/a> will offer special presentations of \u201cSteel Magnolias<\/a>\u201d and \u201cThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas\u201d in approximately 200 locations across the U.S., including Parton\u2019s home state of Tennessee. Participating theatres will offer two matinee screenings daily until Sept. 2 \u2014 including one showing of each title \u2014 at AMC Fan Faves value pricing. <\/p>\n

\n\tParton died Tuesday after a brief battle with cancer. She was 80. While she is best known as the queen of country music \u2014 selling more than 100 million records and taking home 11 Grammy Awards \u2014 the Nashville legend also made a significant impact in Hollywood. Parton made her film acting debut in 1980\u2019s \u201c9 to 5,\u201d starring alongside Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as Southern office secretary Doralee Rhodes. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for acting, as well as an Oscar nod for the title track.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor her follow-up, Parton played opposite Burt Reynolds in the 1982 musical comedy \u201cThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.\u201d Parton earned another Golden Globe nod for her performance as Miss Mona Stangley, the proprietess of a brothel \u2014 with Reynolds as the local sheriff and her secret lover \u2014 as they fight to keep her business, the Chicken Ranch, open after it\u2019s targeted by a moral crusader.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the 1989 comedy-drama \u201cSteel Magnolias,\u201d Parton demonstrated her acting range as part of an all-star ensemble that included Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis and Daryl Hannah. In the film, about a group of Southern women weathering life\u2019s storms, Parton played Truvy Jones, a beauty technician whose wisdom was as potent as the hairspray that lifted her teased roots.<\/p>\n

\n\tShowtimes and ticket information for the Dolly Parton retrospective will be available through the AMC mobile app and on the theater chain\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of Dolly Parton\u2018s most beloved movies are heading back to the big screen following the country music…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[146018,8846,146019,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-419117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-amc-theatres","tag-dolly-parton","tag-steel-magnolias","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}