*** ONE-TIME USE *** Jessica Lange, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait for the Film, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Paramount Pictures, 1981 Photo: Alamy Stock PhotoFew movie careers have changed course as sharply—and as permanently—as that of Jessica Lange. Despite boasting an unusually artsy background, Ms. Lange’s earliest film roles required little of her beyond her obvious physical beauty: She starred as the ingénue in the misbegotten remake of “King Kong” (1976) and, more intriguingly but no more demandingly, as the spectral-like angel of death in “All That Jazz” (1979).

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Persons: Jessica Lange, Lange’s, King Kong ” Organizations: Paramount Pictures Locations: King