Dolly parton movies in order

"Jolene had to be in the show," Dolly Parton told Netflix in a featurette about her new series Heartstrings, "that is the most recorded song that I have ever written." In the show, each episode of which brings to life one of the country legend's songs, Julianne Hough plays Jolene, an aspiring singer-songwriter who makes a loving husband (played by Dallas Austin) consider infidelity.

Unlike the creators of other famous songs about people (Carly Simon's "You're So Vain," for example, or Alanis Morisette's "You Oughta Know,") Dolly has been quite frank about the person with "flaming locks of auburn hair" who inspired perhaps her most iconic song.

Or more specifically, people.

Surprisingly, the song, which provides the plot of Dolly Parton's Heartstrings Episode 1 on Netflix, is partly based on an eight-year-old girl, whom Dolly met in the 1960s while working on the show that first found her fame, The Porter Wagoner Show.

She told NPR in 2008, "One night I was on stage, and ther