November 6: Happy Birthday Sally Field

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https://lebeauleblog.com/2016/11/06/...nd-emma-stone/

Two-time Oscar winner Sally Field celebrates her 70th birthday today. She began acting over 50 years ago, starring as the title character in the short-lived but well-remembered (by some, at least) ABC series Gidget. A second ABC comedy followed, with Field playing Sister Bertrille in The Flying Nun.

By the late 1970s Field was moving into feature films, starring in the #2 film of 1977, Smokey and the Bandit. At the same time she was working hard to break away from being typecast as a plucky ingenue. A first step was her Emmy-winning role in the 1976 miniseries Sybil, but she really made a break with her past when she starred in a 1979 film based on the experiences of a textile worker and union activist named Crystal Lee Sutton:



Field won the Oscar for Best Actress for Norma Rae, along with a long list of other acting awards. She won a second Oscar and a second Golden Globe five years later for Places in the Heart (her Oscar win was the occasion of the famous “you like me” speech), and received Golden Globe nominations for four other 1980s films, including Absence of Malice and Steel Magnolias. During the 2000s, she won her second and third Emmys, for a guest role on ER and for starring in Brothers & Sisters, and recently she received her third Oscar nomination for playing Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln.

[king of comedy]

Happy Birthday Sally!

[robyrob]

Happy Birthday Sally Field!!

I bet I'm the only one that got excited when they found out that she was going to be starring in the new Spiderman movie a few years back - and then disgusted that it would be some british wimp playing Spidey instead of her.