‘Jessica Lange’ Review: More Than Just ‘The Wife’

Few 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).