tral work of the movie about her life, "My daddy worked all night in the Van Leer coal mine/And all day long in the field a'hoeing corn." Her earliest life is only hinted at in the film through the lyrics, but it was undoubtedly a hardscrabble existence with no material luxuries.
Before she turned fourteen, Loretta married Oliver Vanetta Lynn, who was known to many as "Mooney" because of his illegal moonshine business. His new wife called him by another nickname, "Doolittle," or "Doo" for short; in the movie, he is played by Tommy Lee Jones. Theirs is a tumultu
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