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5 unusual facts about Sally Field


Erika Holzer

In 1996 Paramount Pictures released a film adaptation (also titled Eye for an Eye) directed by John Schlesinger and starring Sally Field and Kiefer Sutherland; Erika was not involved with the film production.

Harriet Frank, Jr.

Once again they worked with director Martin Ritt, their seventh project together, and Sally Field, who had played the titular lead role in Norma Rae.

Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman

Two other Gidget films were made, as well as a 1965 television series starring Sally Field and several television movies.

Mo Rocca

His work includes cover stories, features and profiles (Rita Moreno, Sally Field), with a special emphasis on presidential history.

Without My Daughter

In 1991, a movie titled Not Without My Daughter starring Sally Field was released, based on the events described in her book.


Dave Annable

In 2006, Annable appeared in ABC drama series Brothers & Sisters alongside Calista Flockhart, Rachel Griffiths, and Sally Field.

Eve Ensler

In February 2004, Ensler, alongside Sally Field, Jane Fonda and Christine Lahti, protested to have the Mexican government re-investigate the slayings of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juárez, a city along the Texas border.

It's All Wrong, But It's All Right

The song was featured in the 1979 drama film Norma Rae, in which actress Sally Field won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal as Norma Rae Webster.

Murphy's Romance

Sally Field and director Martin Ritt had to fight Columbia Pictures in order to cast Garner, who was viewed at that point as primarily a television actor despite having enjoyed a flourishing film career in the 1960s (and more recently having co-starred in the box office hit Victor/Victoria opposite Julie Andrews two years earlier).

Soapdish

It stars Sally Field as an aging soap star, joined by Kevin Kline, Robert Downey, Jr., Elisabeth Shue, Whoopi Goldberg, Teri Hatcher, Cathy Moriarty, Garry Marshall, Kathy Najimy, and Carrie Fisher, as well as cameo appearances by TV personalities like Leeza Gibbons, John Tesh (both playing themselves as Entertainment Tonight hosts/reporters), real-life soap opera actors, Stephen Nichols and Finola Hughes and Ben Stein.


see also

All the Way Home

All the Way Home (1981 film), a TV adaptation of the play and novel, starring Sally Field and Ellen Corby

Places in the Heart

In 1985, when Sally Field reached the lectern to accept her second Oscar (the first was for Norma Rae), she uttered the memorable (and much-mocked) line, "I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!"

Two weeks

Two Weeks, a 2006 American comedy drama film starring Sally Field