Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story

TV Movie
1995
2h

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Michele Lee and Kenny Rogers in Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story (1995)

The story of the life of country-music legend Dottie West.The story of the life of country-music legend Dottie West.The story of the life of country-music legend Dottie West.

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6.5/10

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7User reviews

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Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 2 nominations total

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Trivia
Michele Lee was given access by West's daughter Shelly West to her wardrobe of Bob Mackie originals for the production.

Goofs
Dottie receives a telegram notifying her of her father's death in approximately 1980. Both of Dottie's parents died prior to 1970.

Soundtracks
Country Sunshine
(Uncredited)
Written by Dianne Whiles, Billy Davis and Dottie West.
Performed by Michele Lee

The movie was fairly well done, although it was hardly in the same class with Coal Miner's Daughter or Stand by Your Man. Of course, Dottie West wasn't in the same class with Loretta Lynn or Tammy Wynette, either.

It's incomprehensible that anyone could have made the money she did in her career and thrown it all away, ending up broke and in debt. What an absolute waste!