S ometimes a single word can unfurl a whole history. For me, one such word is spool. Mawmaw, my maternal grandmother, wound thread around wooden spools, wound ink ribbons around typewriter spools. For ...

Sally Field found an unexpected way into Norma Rae‘s sexuality, she borrowed something from Patricia Neal. Field said she was struggling during a romantic scene ... Read More ...

It was nearly 50 years ago, but Sally Field still remembers when she realized her relationship with Burt Reynolds was coming to a close. Field, who is starring in Netflix's "Remarkably Bright ...

The “Remarkably Bright Creatures” star said she typically played the tomboy in her early roles.

Sally Field admitted that portraying "overt sexuality" did not come naturally to her while filming the 1979 hit Norma Rae. The actress revealed that director Martin Ritt gave her an unexpected ...

Women in Film, Los Angeles said Monday that it is launching a screening series to celebrate the nonprofit organization’s 50th anniversary, and has picked a timely movie to kick it off. The series will ...

Norma Rae and Teddy Kennedy are dead. Well, the woman on whom the 1979 Academy Award-winning movie Norma Rae was based – Crystal Lee Sutton – died Sept. 12. Sen. Kennedy died just weeks earlier on Aug ...

Crystal Lee Sutton, whose fight to unionize Southern textile plants with low pay and poor conditions was dramatized in the film "Norma Rae," has died. By The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — Crystal ...

20th Century Fox/Everett CollectionSally Field in Norma Rae, 1979. Stars: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle. Director: Martin Ritt Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Academy Awards: 2 ...

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