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Onscreen, versatile, multi-talented Beverly D'Angelo is best remembered for playing Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon "vacation" series of films but she has appeared in over 50 films and ... performs on television and the stage. The daughter of successful musicians, D'Angelo was educated in Europe and studied fine arts but left school at age 17 to become an artist at Hanna-Barbera Studios. For a time she was a folk singer and performed in Canadian coffee houses. She later sang rock & roll with the group Elephant. She tried acting in regional theater and during the early '70s appeared frequently on Broadway, making her debut playing Ophelia in the rock musical Rockabye Hamlet. D'Angelo made her film debut playing a bit in the Sentinel (1976).
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A striking and sultry blue-eyed blonde performer, Beverly D'Angelo could be a household name, if only she cared to be. Multi-talented, she first gravitated to art, working in the animation department of Hanna-Barbera before moving to Canada to pursue her singing career, most notably with rockabilly legend Ronnie Hawkins. It was there that Gower Champion spotted her and cast her as Ophelia in his Canadian production of "Rockabye, Hamlet" (1975), which moved the next year to Broadway for a short run. After smaller roles in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall" and Michael Winner's "The Sentinel" (both 1977), D'Angelo gained wide attention as the rebellious debutante Sheila in Milos Forman's highly acclaimed film version of "Hair" (1979). She secured her reputation with a compelling portrayal of Patsy Cline in Michael Apted's "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1980), singing with style and accuracy the Patsy Cline songs for a soundtrack album which went gold.
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A striking and sultry blue-eyed blonde performer, Beverly D'Angelo could be a household name, if only she cared to be. Multi-talented, she first gravitated to art, working in the animation department of Hanna-Barbera before moving to Canada to pursue her singing career, most notably with rockabilly legend Ronnie Hawkins. It was there that Gower Champion spotted her and cast her as Ophelia in his Canadian production of "Rockabye, Hamlet" (1975), which moved the next year to Broadway for a short run....
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The addle-brained, shopaholic wife (Beverly D'Angelo) of a bungling archaeologist (Aron Eisenberg) suffers a horrific fate when her husband's expedition accidentally stumbles onto a sacred burial ground. A curse gradually transforms her aerobicized, Spago-loving human body into the leathery, pointy-headed form of a pterodactyl!
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D'Angelo is Pixie Chandler, not the average Beverly Hills housewife. And her hometown is about to discover how strange Pixie can really be! When her husband, an archaeologist, digs up an ancient burial site and disturbs an eccentric witch doctor (Brion James of The Fifth Element and Blade Runner), the shaman puts a curse on the meddling wife. Without warning, Pixie transforms into PTERODACTYL WOMAN FROM BEVERLY HILLS.
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This week, EW's editor-at-large eagerly awaits two of ''Entourage'''s most beguiling performers, Beverly D'Angelo and Nora Dunn. Plus: Martina McBride on ''Idol,'' a UFC brawl on Spike, and a great thriller and poetry collection in paperback
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