We liked Sally Field, we really liked her as this textile worker & union organizer
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Norma Rae - Faculty.frostburg  The whole place is, again according to the script, like a battle field, full of a jolting, nerve-shattering din. ... In a small cubicle adjacent to the factory floor Norma tries to talk to her mother Leona (Barbara ... I'm from the Textile Workers' Union of America. ... "We figure the only way to close that mouth is to hand you a promotion.
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Norma Rae - Vernon Johns Society  True story of a woman textile worker (Sally Field) being radicalized by New York City ... It is really noisy with all the looms in action. ... He says his name is Reuben Warshovsky and he's a labor organizer come to put a union in the O.P. Henley Textile Mill. ... Norma Rae's father still hovers around her and she doesn't like it.
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Norma Rae - Wikipedia  Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film about a factory worker from a small town in North Carolina who becomes involved in the labor union activities at the textile factory where she works after the health of her and her co-workers is compromised. The film stars Sally Field in the title role, Beau Bridges as Norma Rae's ... After hearing a speech by a New York union organizer, Reuben Warshowsky...
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Norma Rae (1979) - IMDb  Drama ... With Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle. A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the ... Like a lot of her family before her, Norma Rae works at the local textile mill, where the pay is ... Reuben Warshowsky, the union organizer, is based on Eli Zivkovich,...
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Norma Rae [VHS]  As mill worker Norma Rae, Field's character lands the reluctant role of union organizer but ... It stars Sally Field in one of her best performances, and you'll have no doubt in your ... Up to that point, Ms. Field was better known as a TV actress who starred in fluffy comedies like ... She got the Oscar and I think we laughed at her.
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Women in Labor History Zinn Education Project  From championing better workplace conditions to cutting back the 12-hour day to ... 1982 to rephotograph some of the people and places she had documented earlier. ... Her patient leadership helped knit together a labor union made up of ..... Frances Perkins became the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the...
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Sally Field - Wikipedia  Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American film and television actress and .... For her role as matriarch M'Lynn in the film version of Steel Magnolias ... She then played the mother of Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994), even .... 1984, Places in the Heart, Edna Spalding, Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Sally Field | Hollywood Walk of Fame  May 5, 2014 ... Watch Sally Field get star ceremony on the Walk of Fame at the end of this page. ... Globe, Screen Actors Guild, Critics Choice, BAFTA and Academy Award. ... and Martin Ritt's Norma Rae, for which she received a Golden Globe, ... her feature film directorial debut with Beautiful starring Minnie Driver.
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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) | Britannica ...  David Dubinsky, who later served as the union's president from 1932 to 1966, ... Under Dubinsky's leadership the union grew from 45,000 members in 1932 to...
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Dancer-welder's life is flashback to 'Flashdance' | The Columbus ...  Jan 26, 2008 ... CINCINNATI (AP) -- Alexandra Harrill's life as a dancer is reminiscent of the 1983 movie ... while she pursued her dream of becoming a professional ballerina. ... Less than 6 percent of U.S. welders are female, according to the...
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Places in the Heart Reviews & Ratings - IMDb  There's a subplot in the film involving her and her philandering husband Ed Harris. ... to her to raise their children and harvest the cotton crop in time to save the farm. ... struggle to keep her land, house, and children after her husband is killed in a ... Sally Field is superb in the role of the Depression era Texas widow, Emma...
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Peggy Seeger Concert Reviews, 70th birthday concert, Pete Seeger ...  Odd, then, to omit the one song she can reasonably call her own, Diamonds & Rust. ... My sister Cath and brother-in-law Simon also really adored the gig. ..... Topped by the encore, another original, co-written with Weavers partner Lee Hays: ... her classic feminist anthem, I'm Gonna Be an Engineer (including an additional...
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The First Woman in Space: the story of Valentina Tereshkova  Feb 24, 2015 ... The daughter of a tractor driver and a textile plant worker in the ... school when she was 17 to work as a textile factory assembly worker, as her mother had. ... While in space, the first female cosmonaut performed experiments...
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Burt Reynolds Calls Sally Field the Love of His Life: "I Miss Her" - Us ...  Nov 6, 2015 ... It's been more than 30 years since Burt Reynolds and Sally Field decided to call off ... Reynolds, 79, and the Norma Rae actress were once considered one of ... producer Alan Greisman, in 1984, and Reynolds to Loni Anderson in 1988. ... Clooney, dating everyone from Adrienne Barbeau to Dinah Shore.
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Sally Field - IMDb  Forrest Gump Mrs. Gump. (1994). Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln ... M'Lynn Eatenton. 1988 Punchline  Lilah Krytsick ... Edna Spalding. 1982 Kiss Me Goodbye  Kay.
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Narrator: Wanda Fullner - Washington State History Museum  How you developed your ideas about your role as a woman at home and in society. ... early, strawberry picking in the second grade, and so on. ... Fullner: In the 60s and 70s? ... Fullner: Well, I attended the founding meetings of NOW in 1969. .... call a debtor. ..... Andrews: And that stands for Come Off Your Old Tired Ethics?
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mudcat.org: Women's Work Songs  Fellow feminists, PLEASE don't jump in and say "A woman can do any of the ... I can think of a lot of recently written songs, so I'm particularly ... The Hand Weaver and the Factory Maid - trad. ... I'm Gonna Be an Engineer - Peggy Seeger ...... A history in song and picture of the working men and women of...
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Pajama Game Script Act 2 v.1 - Scribd  Based on the novel 7 1/2 Cents ... 3rd Year Musical Theatre Tour ... He says when he was working at the Ironclad Overall Company and they was having trouble. ... (She crosses to door and opens it) PREZ But Mae. my wife will be raising hell ... I'm the sweetheart of Local 343 Associated Garment Workers of North America...
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J! Archive - Show #3066, aired 1997-12-22  This film's superb cast included Glenn Close, William Hurt & Kevin Kline ... In this 1984 film, Sally Field played a Depression-era widow who struggles to save...
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Norma Rae (1979) - Martin Ritt | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods ...  Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. ... that her activism is a result of a romance between herself and Reuben. ... of the mill, resulting in victory for the union and capitulation to its demands. ... Norma Rae is the film for which Sally Field won her first Oscar; an additional...
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Sally Field - Wikipedia  Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American film and television actress and .... In 1979, Field played the eponymous union organizer in Norma Rae, ... Then came a second Oscar for her starring role in the 1984 drama Places in the .... During the 2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama...