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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 ...
The Muppet Movie: Associated Film: $65,200,000 [10] International. Highest-grossing films of 1979 (international markets) ... Norma Rae: Best Foreign Language Film:
If you had polled the opening night audience of The Beautician and the Beast back in 1997, few moviegoers would have predicted that Fran Drescher — let alone President Drescher — would someday ...
"It Goes Like It Goes" is a song written by David Shire and Norman Gimbel. [1] Jennifer Warnes sang the vocals for the Norma Rae soundtrack in 1979. [1] " It Goes Like It Goes" won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1979, [2] defeating such fellow nominees as "Through the Eyes of Love" from Ice Castles and "Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie, to the consternation of some critics.
In 1985, when Sally Field accepted her second Academy Award for Best Actress (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!" It is commonly misquoted as "You like me—you really like me!"
The new Disney original movie “Out of My Mind” tells the story of the efforts by a sixth grader with cerebral palsy and her family to be allowed to attend mainstream classes. The film ...
Antoni Porowski embarks on an emotional, albeit delicious, trip around the globe with Issa Rae, Florence Pugh, Awkwafina, and more celebrities on his upcoming Nat Geo series, No Taste Like Home ...