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Sally Field
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- #001
Sally Field dated Burt Reynolds for four years, but he turned down her marriage proposals and they eventually broke up. As of 2018, she still calls him the love of her life.
- #002
While filming the scene in Norma Rae (1979) in which she is dragged to a police car, Sally Field struggled and kicked so hard that she broke a rib of one of the men playing a police officer.
- #003
In 1988, Sally Field survived the crash of her private plane without injury. The plane lost power during takeoff and veered toward some planes parked on the tarmac.
- #004
Sally Field considers her on-screen kiss with James Garner the best kiss she has ever had.
- #005
In Punchline (1988), Sally Field plays Tom Hanks's love interest. In Forrest Gump (1994), they play mother and son.
- #006
Along with fellow actresses Jane Fonda and Christine Lahti and playwright Eve Ensler, Sally Field took part in a protest calling on the Mexican government to reopen the investigation into the killings of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexico-Texas border.
- #007
Sally Field made two separate appearances as a contestant on The Dating Game (1965).
- #008
Sally Field's Oscar-winning performance as Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae (1979) ranked 15th on the American Film Institute's heroes list in its 100 Years of the Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains compilation.
- #009
Sally Field's mother, Margaret Field, died on November 6, 2011, which was Sally's 65th birthday.
- #010
Sally Field auditioned for the role of Elaine Robinson in The Graduate (1967).
- #011
At age 41, Sally Field gave birth to her third child, son Samuel H. Morlan Greisman (aka Sam Greisman), on December 2, 1987, in Los Angeles, California. The child's father is her second ex-husband, Alan Greisman.
- #012
The unexpected death of Sally Field's former boyfriend Burt Reynolds on September 6, 2018, came 12 days before the launch of Field's autobiography "In Pieces." As recently as March, Reynolds had still openly declared his love for Field. When Sally appeared on The View (1997) to promote her book, she said she had barely spoken to Burt in 30 years.
- #013
Sally Field graduated from Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California, in 1964, alongside Michael Ovitz, who later became her manager. Field's class voted her "Class Clown." Another classmate was Cindy Williams.
- #014
Sally Field is an alumna of the Lee Strasberg Institute, as are Harvey Keitel, Frank Miranda, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
- #015
Sally Field is good friends with Goldie Hawn and a longtime friend of Pat Mitchell.
- #016
When Sally Field's former boyfriend Steven Craig proposed in 1968, he framed it as an ultimatum: "Marry me, or I will marry someone else." Field accepted. The "someone else" was actress Ronne Troup, who began filming the Flying Nun pilot in the lead role (Sister Bertrille) in 1967 after Field turned the part down. Field — who had actually been Screen Gems' first choice for the role all along — was persuaded by her stepfather to change her mind and take the job, leaving the group stunned.
- #017
Seven months after giving birth to her son Sam Greisman, Sally Field returned to work to begin filming Steel Magnolias (1989).
- #018
Sally Field is mentioned in the theme song of the 1980s series The Fall Guy (1981).
- #019
Sally Field was honored with the 2012 Human Rights Campaign Equality Ally award for her advocacy of gay rights issues. The award was presented to her by her youngest son, Sam Greisman, who is openly gay.
- #020
Sally Field is friends with the married couple Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw.
- #021
On May 5, 2014, Sally Field was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6767 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
- #022
Sally Field dated Pete Duel, Davy Jones, Lee Majors, Jimmy Webb, Kevin Kline and Johnny Carson. After her second divorce she had a brief relationship with Jerry D. Knight. Since then she has kept her love life quiet.
- #023
Sally Field is the daughter of US Army captain Richard Dryden Field (1914-1993) and Margaret Field (1922-2011), a Paramount Pictures contract player who appeared in B movies. They were married from 1942 to 1950.
- #024
Geena Davis was the first choice for the role of Veronica Quaife in David Cronenberg's remake The Fly (1986).
- #025
Sally Field's performance as Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae (1979) ranked 73rd on Premiere Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
- #026
Both Sally Field and her mother, Margaret Field, have osteoporosis.
- #027
Sally Field turned down the lead role of Alice Hardy in Friday the 13th (1980).
- #028
Sally Field has worked with five directors who won the Best Director Oscar: Sydney Pollack, Robert Benton, Robert Zemeckis, John Schlesinger and Steven Spielberg.
- #029
Sally Field was wanted for the lead in the romantic comedy Moonstruck (1987).
- #030
Sally Field has an older brother named Richard Dryden Field, a physicist.
- #031
Sally Field owns a production company: Fogwood Films.
- #032
On November 10, 1969, Sally Field gave birth to her first child, Peter Craig, at the age of 23. The child's father is her first ex-husband, Steven Craig.
- #033
Sally Field has four grandchildren: Isabel (b. 1998) and Sophie (b. 2001) through her son Peter Craig, and Noah (b. 2006) and Colin (b. 2014) through her son Eli Craig.
- #034
Sally Field parodied her 1985 Oscar acceptance speech in a 2000 commercial.
- #035
On May 25, 1972, Sally Field gave birth to her second child, Elijah M. Craig (also known as Eli Craig), at the age of 25. The child's father is her first ex-husband, Steven Craig.
- #036
When Sally Field finished filming Punchline (1988), she was three months pregnant with her son Sam Greisman.
- #037
Sally Field was honored with a Career Achievement Award by the Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 5, 2013.
- #038
Sally Field applied for the role of Juliet Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (1968), but she was prevented from taking the part because filming was about to begin at the same time as the first episodes of The Flying Nun (1967).
- #039
Sally Field became pregnant at 17 but had an abortion in Tijuana, Mexico.
- #040
Sally Field is the daughter of actress Margaret Field (née Margaret Joy Morlan), born in Houston, Texas. She is the former stepdaughter of actor Jock Mahoney.
- #041
Sally Field served as a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989.
- #042
Sally Field became the 83rd actor to win an Oscar, taking the Best Actress award for Norma Rae (1979) at the 52nd Academy Awards (1980) on April 14, 1980.
- #043
Sally Field has English, Irish, German and Dutch ancestry. Her father's great-great-grandfather, John Quincy Field, was born in Grimsby, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada.
- #044
Sally Field moved into a new apartment in a prestigious but very plain building on Horatio St in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.
- #045
Sally Field is the mother-in-law of the actress Sasha Craig.
- #046
Sally Field had to turn down the female lead in the series Biraz Yaşa, Biraz Sev (1968) because of scheduling conflicts.
- #047
Before playing Gidget in 1965, Sally Field was a cheerleader at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California.
- #048
Sally Field is the half-sister of Princess O'Mahoney.
- #049
Sally Field is the paternal granddaughter of Fleet Folsom (1881-1948) and Jane Elizabeth Field (née Fox) (1882-1961). Both were born and raised in the state of Pennsylvania.
- #050
Sally Field is one of 15 Oscar-winning actresses born in the state of California. The others are Fay Bainter, Gloria Grahame, Jo Van Fleet, Liza Minnelli, Tatum O'Neal, Diane Keaton, Anjelica Huston, Cher, Jodie Foster, Helen Hunt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Marcia Gay Harden and Brie Larson.
- #051
Sally Field was born at 4:23 a.m. (PST).
- #052
Sally Field endorsed Kamala Harris for president in 2024.
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