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February 18, 2026 15 mins

Ohio-native Beverly D'Angelo starred in more than 60 films over her 40+ year career on the big screen. She loves the movies! And she wants her fellow Buckeyes to enjoy them for free during Ohio's 250th celebration to go along side the Nation's commemoration this year. 

Ohio Goes to the Movies runs from February through October, 2026. In all 88 Ohio counties, films will be screened FOR FREE, films that have strong ties to Ohio. Whether its actors in front of the lens, or those who are behind it, writing, producing, directing, Ohioans have made huge contributions to the film industry. 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This week on iHeart Cincy.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I can totally understand why Tom Hanks would say, Hey,
wait a minute, all these brilliant people are coming from Ohio.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Actress Beverly DiAngelo. You remember her from National Lampoon's Vacation
series with Chevy Chase. This Columbus, Ohio native has appeared
in more than sixty films over her forty year career.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
She's quite the singer too.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
She started here in the Buckeye State, and today Beverly
DiAngelo is here to share with us her new role
as ambassador for Ohio goes to the Movies.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Now.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
This is the state's two.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Hundred and fiftieth celebration of the signing of the Declaration
of Independence in seventeen seventy six, part of a year
long celebration of our freedom here in the US.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
She'll tell us why Ohio chose to highlight the.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Actors, filmmakers, scriptwriters, and stage hands all from Ohio who
make the movies we love to watch, and how you
can see many of these films for free during Ohio
goes to the movie celebration all year long, and later
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Speaker 4 (01:25):
Now On iHeart Sinsey with Sandy Collins, I think.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Beverly DiAngelo is probably the most famous guest we've had
on this show so far.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
On iHeart Sincey Action Action.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
That's a word that filmmakers love to hear, because that's
when the magic begins. And you can bring this magic
to Ohio in twenty twenty six by participating in Ohio
Goes to the Movies, a signature event celebrating the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States. I'm Beverly DiAngelo,

(02:00):
know mi as Ellen Griswold from the National Lamboom Vacation Movies.
But what you might not know is I'm from Columbus, Ohio,
and I'm a proud Buckeye. I'm proud to share this
heritage with legends in the film industry, people like Paul Newman,
Clark Gable, Lillian Gish, Contemporaries like Halle Berry, Martin Sheen,
Janelle Monet, directors like Steven Spielberg, even the Warner Brothers,

(02:24):
all native Ohioans. Ohio Goes to the Movies will be
your chance to watch films that showcase our native talents
in all eighty eight counties in venues large and small.
This event will be on a scale that's never been
seen anywhere before.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Ohio Goes to the Movies is going on right now
through October. We'll tell you all about it with my guest,
Beverly DiAngelo. We caught up earlier this week.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
I have miss Beverly D'Angelo for you when you're ready.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Thank you, thank you. She you know what, gouldn't take
it off street here?

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Sandy, Yes, Hello, nice to talk to you.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Well, it's nice to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
I loved that we're talking about it just like teenagers
at a slumber party.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
I've got some questions about your teenage years here in
just a second. Because we were both around during when
Ohio celebrated our bicentennial back in nineteen seventy six. You
remember that I was a ninth grader at Spinning Hills
Junior High in Dayton, Ohio.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
Where were you, Okay? Were you in Columbus during that time?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
In nineteen seventy six, I had just gotten on the
rocket ship, I said, starred in a Broadway show about
Hamlet that closed very quickly. It was called Rockaby Hamlet,
and all of a sudden, all of the.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
I thought, Oh, they're gonna I'll get a record deal.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
You know, the recording executives will just love my voice
because it was all singing. But it was all the
casting directors from the film industry who came after me,
and very quickly, in quick succession, I got my Screen
Actors Guild card from like a couple of lines and
the Hall, and then I did a few little into
a small movie for Paramount Miniseries, and then started the

(04:08):
film of Hair.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
So by seventy six I.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Was just I think in seventy six to the exact,
I would have been in Los Angeles shooting a mini
series called Captains and the King tell us.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
A little bit about you, and then I'm sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
No, go ahead. I was just going to kind of
remember where I was.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, no, it's okay. I'm just wondering because you pay wait.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
A second, wait a second, hold.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
On, hold everything.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Do you remember by that bi centennial they floated big
ships down the Hudson River, right, because I saw those ships,
so I would have been probably in New York at
that Really it was a whirlwind those years, sure, Yeah,
for sure, especially seventy six seventy six.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
It was so much fun.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
And I'm bringing this up because it was a once
in a lifetime celebration to you to celebrate the two
hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration Independence. Now
we are celebrating fifty years later. The I've never heard
this word before, the semi Quinn centennial of the two
hundred and fiftieth.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Innivers That's complicated.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I know, it's so hard, and I can't we just
say can't we just say two hundred? Can't we just
say we made it to two fifty?

Speaker 4 (05:17):
We can? We can?

Speaker 3 (05:18):
I just wanted to get that word out in case
anybody wanted to google it while we were talking.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
The semi Quinn centennial. Yes, the semi Quinn centennial.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
And so how do you know what I love.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
What's that? Well, here's what I love about about why
I'm here now, Because what we're celebrating this year is
a program called Ohio Goes to the Movies. And when
I say, you know, it's been two hundred and fifty
years since our forefathers had this brilliant idea of how
to create a beautiful, you know, democracy, I think we

(05:52):
could all use a bit of community these days.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
And what we're.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Going to do is have films that have either Ohioan's
in front of the camera or behind the camera at
local theaters, community centers. We're going to make events out
of some of them, because that's the magic of film.
You know, when you get together and you actually go
into a theater, it elevates it. It's not just turning

(06:17):
on the TV and watching a streamer go back and
forth while you're getting a sandwich or something like that.
It's really a total experience. And I think that films
bring together and transport us to a magical place. And
I just I want to get people into those theaters
to see on the big, big screen the devotion and
the love and the art and the entertainment of this medium.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
You know.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
So I'm excited about the element of bringing everybody together
over this.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
The reason Ohio chose doing the movies is because we've
had so many talented people in our state that's right
in Hollywood as actors, producers, directors, screenwriters, you know. You
know the ruse Tom Hanks actually did his He noticed
that the film department at Wright State University in Dayton

(07:09):
was bringing out so many great filmmakers. He'd say, well,
where are you from? Where are you from on different movies,
and they'd say, well, I'm from right state.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Well what is that place?

Speaker 3 (07:17):
So they opened up the Tom Hanks Building a couple
of years ago. I mean, so there's really strong ties
in filmmaking to Ohio and you're from the Columbus area,
and that's why Ohio wanted to promote these films. And
the best part, Beverly, is that these are all free films.
That was my favorite part. Isn't that your favorite?

Speaker 2 (07:36):
That's right, They are free, and the intention is to
have these films bring everybody together. You know, we know
that these days, Oh my gosh, you gotta pay for parking,
you gotta give how much of the thing of popcorn?

Speaker 1 (07:52):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (07:53):
It's an investment, but we want to take away that
one part of the investment, and also to celebrate our people,
our buck eyes who've fallen in love and devoted their
lives to this, to filmmaking too, because it's just it's
a special thing. It's not like anything else. And the
thing about Columbus is there really is a very I'd

(08:16):
say that we're we kind of buck guys, kind of
have a tendency toward you know, we're not braggers, you know,
like we have kind of like a built in culture
of a certain amount of modesty that's not false modesty,
but it's we respect other people. That's one thing I miss.
One thing I miss about Ohio wherever I go is

(08:38):
that kindness and that gentleness and the follow the golden
ruledness of.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Being brought up in Ohio.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
So the thing is all these people that are into
the film industry or what's the film minustry, you know,
there's a lot of bragging going on in that industry.
And I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, but
I'm telling you that the people that have come from Ohio,
that have devoted their lives to filmmaking, we really do
want everybody to see just how involved we've been, and

(09:05):
we don't, you know, buck guys don't throw themselves out like, hey,
you know, we're big. We're big artists and stars and
stuff like that. It's just not in the nature of
a buck eye. I'm sorry it's not. But it is
in the nature of Hollywood, and so I can totally
understand why Tom Hanks would say, hey, wait a minute,
all these brilliant people are coming from a while, because

(09:25):
it's in there.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
You know.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
I know that when I was growing up, it didn't
occur to me to be an actress. I wanted to
be a singer. Had a very musical background. My dad
had been a musician then got into broadcasting. My mother
was a violinist, my older brother was a musician, and
you know, so that surrounded me in particularly, but everybody
in my school, we all sang. We all appreciated it.

(09:47):
And I just want people to get out there and
appreciate the accomplishments of buck guys.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
And plus they're great movies. You know that they're going
to be able to say.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
There's all different. There's a whole long list. Now let
me explain to the listener.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
It started this month here in February, and these are
going to go throughout the weeks and months, scattered across
all eighty eight counties here in Ohio, and that'll go
through October. So right now you can check the website
where Ohio goes to the movies. You can find where
these movies are going to be shown. So there might
be Sam up in Cleveland, and then tomorrow there might

(10:20):
be one in Madina and Toledo and down in Athens.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
So they're going to be scattered with sandy.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Let's do this.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Let's say really clearly the website that everybody should go to. Okay, okay,
are you ready? It's pretty easy. It's Ohio goes to
themovies dot org. Ohio goes to themovies dot org, and
you go there and find out where to go to
free movies and have a special evening. The films that

(10:47):
I'm in that are going to be on March first
at Cinema Polaris.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
We better get where these are.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
Polaris, I think is in Columbus, Oh.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
In Columbus, in Columbus, Oh, that's right around the corner
at Columbus. We're going to show National Lampoons Vacation on
March first, on May thirtieth at the Pickerington Community Theater
and the Wigwam Event Center that's in the Columbus area
National Lampoon's Vacation. Then for the films that I'm in

(11:19):
that they're showing July tenth at the Ohio Theater and
you know, I think I'm going to come in for
that fun and July twenty eighth, Yeah, listen to this
fun one at July twenty. On July twenty eighth at
the Auto Rama twin Drive in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
And this is one of those places where you don't
have to hide in the trunk to get in because
of afford it, because it'll be free.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, you don't have to hide in the vact But
I just you know, I love movies and I love
going to the movies.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
And you know, as the prices went up and then
COVID and then all the streaming and stuff like that,
I love so many things that I've watched on streaming,
but it's really not the same. It's not immersive, like
going into a darkened theater with a big giant screen
and you know, to have that one on one experience

(12:16):
as you sit raft next to your audience members.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
It's really something.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
You know.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
When I was going up, it was like the perfect
date night, you know, dinner in a movie. Well we've
kind of, you know, dinner and Netflix at home kind
of mutated into that.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
But I'm telling you you can hear how.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Enthusiastic I am about the experience. There's really nothing like it.
I'll tell you something. I'm a member of the Academy,
and you know, we vote every year. So there are
a lot of screenings in Los Angeles, and I like
to go to all of them because I like to
see them on the big screen. But I will tell
you that I've also watched them at home because Academy

(12:56):
members get like a little app on APPTVVE It's called
the Academy Screen. And I'll tell you something. I've watched
films on a smaller screen at home.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
I don't have a giant one, but I have a
nice one.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
And then I've seen them on a big screen and
it's just different.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's just that's when the magic comes out, you know,
and we want every Ohio and to fulfill that magic.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
If you just joined us, I'm speaking with Iconic American
actress and ambassador for Ohio goes to the movies. Beverly D'Angelo,
who's on the phone in a vehicle, I think somewhere
driving somewhere. At this point, we really appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
No, I'm not driving anywhere. I'm sitting right here.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
I'm ext to Sawmill Creek, oh Okay, up in Milan,
up in Milan, because you know why, why this is
where Edison was born. Thomas Edison was born in Milan.
So here we are. I just want to mention some
other films. Every so there are nearly three hundred movies
in all eighty eight counties. That's Ohio goes to themovies

(13:58):
dot org and I'm talking and every movie from Rainman,
Major League, Silence of the Lambs, Carol, Coal Miners are
and so many more free. It's like Ohio goes to
themovies dot org and treat yourself to the matter.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
And those movies are included because they have Ohio ties
in a lot of cases as well, like Carol was
filmed here in Cincinnati, as along with many of the.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Other ones that are here.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
So that's all right, Carol in Cincinnati, which looks so great?
Did Cincinnati look good? Oh Wait, I'm getting a signal. Wait,
I'm getting insigne.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
Oh no, it's the music.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
I gotta wrap it up. Okay, I could talk to
you all day.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
I could do.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Keep my number, Beverly Dangelo. I appreciate you calling and
we'll see it. Ohio goes to the movies.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Ohio goes to themovies dot org. That'll get you into
the matchers.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Thank you so much, Beverly, Thank you be Remember all
of the movies for Ohio goes to the movies in
all eighty eight counties are free now through October. Check
out the website to find out the movies close to
you and go.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
See they're free.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
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