Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek was born on December 25th, 1949 in Quitman, Texas. 

Sissy Spacek

She originally aspired to be a recording artist and in 1968, at age 18, recorded a diss track to John Lennon under the name Rainbo. The single didn’t perform well and she was dropped by her label. 

She went on to prove herself later as a talented singer by doing all of her own singing as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter.

Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)

After being dropped by her label Sissy enrolled in theater school in New York City and began hanging out with the Warhol crowd. Her first acting role was as an extra in Warhol’s Women In Revolt (1971) with Candy Darling and Holly Woodlawn.

Prime Cut (1972)

Terrence Malick’s Badlands (1973)
with Martin Sheen and John Carter

Carrie (1976)
with Nancy Allen, P.J. Soles, Priscilla Pointer,
Amy Irving and Edie McClurg

The voice of the brain in
The Man With Two Brains (1983)

Rip Torn and Sissy Spacek are cousins 

Carrie (1976)

 On November 3rd, 1976, Carrie saw a limited release in 

Baltimore / Washington, D.C. 

It took over the rest of the country over the next couple weeks. 

Directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, William Katt, P.J. Soles and John Travolta. Based on Stephen King’s first published novel.

Piper Laurie and Sissy Spacek

Allen and Travolta would work with
De Palma again in Blow Out (1981)

William Katt and Sissy Spacek

P.J. soles and Nancy Allen

Amy Irving as Sue Snell and real life mother
Priscilla Pointer as Mrs. Snell

Edie McClurg

Carrie would spawn two remakes (one theatrical and one made for TV), one sequel and a disastrous flop of a Broadway musical. 

Angela Bettis in Carrie (2002)

Chloe Grace Moretz (2013)

Emily Bergl in The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
Directed by Katt Shea

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John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 premiered in 1976

Badlands

On October 13th, 1973 Badlands premiered at the New York Film Festival. 

The film is the directorial debut of Terrence Malick.

The film stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. It is loosely based upon the real life actions of Charles Starkweather and Carol Ann Fugate, who went on a bit of a murdering spree in the late 50’s.

The subject matter would also be revisited in Kalifornia (1993) and Natural Born Killers (1994)  

Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek in Badlands

Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen in Badlands

Cast includes John Carter

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Cliff Gorman was born in 1936

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Terrence Malick