Dolly Parton makes young actress’ dream come true

Alyvia Lind has been cast as a young Dolly Parton in “Coat of Many Colors“, NBC’s upcoming TV movie about the country legend’s humble beginnings and rise to success.

“What I’m really here to do is to announce that you have been chosen to play little Dolly in the movie”, Parton tells an excited Lind in a clip from the “Today” show.

The child with blonde ringlets certainly looked surprised and delighted, although she must have had a clue when Dolly sashayed into the room clad in a clingy teal wrap dress.

The movie will be called “Coat of Many Colors“, the name of Parton’s favorite song. The film, THR claims, is not about Parton’s performing career, but is rather a “faith-based” film about her family life when she was 9, set in 1955 in the Tennessee Great Smokey Mountains. The song itself is somewhat autobiographical, and recounts Parton’s mother having sewn her a coat made from rags passed down from other family members. Television. They will contain music but won’t be musicals, with Parton possibly appearing in some.

She is the daughter of actress Barbara Alyn Woods and producer John Lind. She also had roles in Showtime’s Masters of Sex and Amazon’s Transparent.