Jessica Lange's first film role was in a remake of the 1933 King Kong by RKO.
 Ebirah as a co-production with Rankin/Bass Productions, however Ishir Honda was unavailable at the time to direct the film and, as a result, Rankin/Bass backed out of the project, along with the King Kong license
In 1982, Lange became the first performer in 40 years to receive two Academy Award nominations in the same year, for Frances and for Tootsie, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the latter, which not only became the second-highest-grossing film of 1982 after Steven Spielberg's E

