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Where's Conway?

posted 19 years ago by SangriaInThePark
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I saw this movie for the first time last night and loved it! But one thing that got me was that there is absoloutly NO mention of Conway Twitty! I wonder why this is?

[–] crazydude7301970 19 years ago

The movie ends as Sissy Spacek is singing "Coal Miners Daughter" so producers left it at this point in which The song was released 1970 so at this point thats where the movie ends. Conway & Loretta began recording & touring together in 1973. The producers were hoping that a sequal was in the works but it never came to terms. Maybe with Loretta's successful "Still Woman Enough" a sequal will come out in hopes with Sissy Spacek & Tommy Lee Jones back in the roles!

[–] SangriaInThePark 19 years ago

Yeah. I was thinking about it today. Their first album was released in 1970, however, and at one point she sings "One's on the Way" which was released after 1970; but with so little time left in the movie I can see why they left him out.

[–] RwhiteRhino 17 years ago

I'm glad someone else was wondering that. I've always wished that this movie had Conway in there. I think another reason why he's not in there is because the movie is about her rise to fame. While Conway was definitely a big part of Loretta's life and career, he didn't really come onto the scene until after she became a huge star. At least, that's what I've always thought.

[–] reandlynnie 17 years ago

The movie's not only/or mainly about her rise to fame;
they cover Loretta from age 13-through-in her fourties
wich is quite a long while after she found success.

Like the other poster mentioned, I also
think (and I am not one for sequels, but...)
a "follow-up" to CMD (only if Sissy and Tommy Lee star)
will be great! In one of her concerts recently, Loretta
told Sissy (who joined her on stage) "You are gonna
have to make me a sequel!"

Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn--even Dolly Parton
teamed up for duets more so in only the mid
seventies or eighties--I think?

"Oh, I Don't Care What People Call Me."-Debbie Harry

[–] kate_mono 13 years ago

I read that he was considered more of a rock n roll singer and that singing with Loretta Lynn "the first woman of country music" it really established him as a country star.

It is similar to "Sweet Dreams" no mention of Loretta at all, inspite of the fact that she honoured the memory of Patsy Cline in her own film...

tell it like it is....

[–] duke4172-1 13 years ago

There are several aspects of Loretta's life not meaantioned in the movie that are in the book that got left out for various reasons.
There is no mention of the Wilburn Brothers who helped Loretta get her start and hired her as the girl singer on their show in the 1960's, Loretta sued them to regain control of some of her hit songsmso they are not mentioned for this reason,

Ernest Tubb is barely mentioned even though he was Loretta's first duet partner (They recorded 3 albums togather) I assume the reason for this was Ernest Tubb was in bad health when the movie was made.

Conway was not brought up because their hits did not start until 1971 and the movie ended about the same time, It would be nice to see them do a sequal because there is alot of Loretta's story that needs to be told! She lost her oldest son and her husband, Conway Twitty passed away and she had various health problems in the 1970's and 1980's It would be nice to see Sissy and Tommy Lee reprise their roles but I would assume they are too old for the parts now! What do you think?

[–] michaelsmith30 11 years ago

She & Conway began recording in the early 70s. I kind of wish the movie would have depicted Loretta's life til 1980 rather than ending in 1970. Elvis the movie with Kurt Russell did the same thing. It ended in 1969 rather than 1977.

[–] sage2112 9 years ago

Nah I think it ended perfectly. Good stopping point.