December 10, 2020 DOLLY PARTON'S COAT OF MANY COLORS -- 2015 -- Pictured: (l-r) Stella Parton as Mrs. Corla Bass, Mary Lane Haskell as Miss Moody, Gerald McRaney as Preacher Jake, Alyvia Alyn Lind as Dolly, Jennifer Nettles as Avie Lee Parton, Ricky Schroder as Lee Parton. (Jeff Lipsky/NBC) History Highlight: Today in 2015, The TV movie 'Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors' aired on NBC. The movie is based on a true story about Dolly's upbringing in 1955 as her family struggles to live in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains and was written by Pamela K. Long (a writer on the soap opera Guiding Light). In the movie, Dolly's mother is played by Jennifer Nettles, lead vocalist of the country music duo Sugarland, and Dolly Parton plays the narrator.