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Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt from a screenplay written by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. The film is based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton [4] [5] – which was told in the 1975 book Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by reporter Henry P. Leifermann of The New York Times [6] – and stars Sally Field in the title role.
Crystal Lee Sutton (née Pulley; December 31, 1940 – September 11, 2009) was an American union organizer and advocate who gained fame in 1979 when the film Norma Rae was released, based on events related to her being fired from her job at the J.P. Stevens plant in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, on May 30, 1973, for "insubordination" after she copied an anti-union letter posted on the ...
Kitchen 305 is a Sunny Isles Beach restaurant inside the Newport Beachside Resort, where MTV held its Spring Break 2008 party. [61] [62] 3OH!3 performed in Panama City Beach, Florida for MTVU's Spring Break in March 2009. Lil Wayne had performed a televised concert for MTV Spring Break in Panama City Beach, Florida in March 2009.
She won second prize in the much-missed Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition in 2008, and in 2011, was the soprano soloist in Verdi's "Requiem" when the company presented concerts in lieu of its ...
Miracle Strip Amusement Park was a theme park located in Panama City Beach, Florida, which operated from 1963 to 2004.The highlight of the park was The Starliner Roller Coaster, an "out-and-back" wooden coaster designed by John Allen upon the park's initial conception.
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A life member of the Actors Studio, [2] Baxley also studied acting under the tutelage of Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York City. [3] Her first film was East of Eden , where she portrayed Adam Trask's obnoxious nurse at the end of the film.
Suzanne Somers' fame was rising due to the success of the sitcom Three's Company, and she wanted to star in movies. Although a lightweight TV movie, Zuma Beach provided Somers with her first starring movie role. [3] [4] John Carpenter wrote the script for a producer "who just said he wanted a beach movie."