Beverly D’Angelo, 73, Steps Out for Rare Appearance Over 40 Years After ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’

Beverly D’Angelo hit the town in Los Angeles for a rare public appearance.

D’Angelo, 73, was photographed as she stepped out to run errands on Tuesday, July 8. The actress wore a blue and white striped button-down shirt with classic blue jeans and white sandals. She paired the look with a dark green tote bag and a gold necklace.

She wore her gray hair in her signature bouncy curls for the outing, bringing an element of glamour to the casual look. The film icon talked about embracing aging years before the outing.

“It always surprises me when I read how old I am,” she told Growing Boulder in October 2020. “For me the value of older women on television and cinema has to do with seeing a woman at a stage of her life when she is a sum of all of the flaws, all of the things she’s experienced. I love experience.”

It’s been more than 40 years since D’Angelo starred as Ellen Griswold in 1983’s National Lampoon’s Vacation alongside Chevy Chase, Anthony Michael Hall, John Candy, Randy Quaid and Eugene Levy. She also acted in the sequels European Vacation (1985), Christmas Vacation (1989), Vegas Vacation (1997) and Vacation (2015).

D’Angelo previously admitted she never expected Christmas Vacation to become such a cult classic around the holiday season each year.

“I don’t know if anyone envisioned that it would be the yearly funfest that it [became],” she told The Current in November 2020. “When I grew up, they always played The Wizard of Oz at Christmas, and now it seems to be Christmas Vacation, so it’s kind of been reinforced by television: that it’s part of life now, that Griswold thing.”

D’Angelo admitted that playing Ellen was “life-changing” because of “how much the public connected” with the character.

“I’m so grateful that these films have brought smiles to so many people and that the public has identified with the character — and by proxy has included me in their own lives,” she noted.

Lately, D’Angelo has been focusing on a different passion — singing. She previously starred in the 1979 movie musical Hair but is looking to explore her musical side again.

“I had always harbored a desire to sing, but I never thought of it as being something that I could do as a career,” she told Closer Weekly in February.

She performed in Patsy Cline: Walkin’ After Midnight, a Patsy Cline tribute concert at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium featuring a slew of celebrity guests in November 2024. D’Angelo also revealed plans to document her reemergence on the music scene.

“I’m making a documentary about my getting back to singing where I first began — with me singing Patsy songs,” she told the outlet. “I am going to drive cross country and warm up my voice, stopping in little roadside places and see what it’s like to go into that part of America that everyone ignores and just be someone who wants to sing for people.”