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Post by petrolino on Jun 16, 2018 23:22:54 GMT
Sally Field (born November 6, 1946, Pasadena, California, U.S.) ~ 10 Essentials
 "So much of what's changed for women that my generation has done, the fights that we've been bloodied over, has changed a lot. I see so many young women coming in as actresses that don't know what the struggle was, and don't know how much better it is. When I first produced films, I wouldn't put my name on it, because it changed how people saw the film.... It's a real triumph that there are so many now who are behind the camera, who are writing, actresses who are taking their power and developing it. It didn't used to be that way."
- Sally Field, The Television Academy Foundation
'Stay Hungry' (1976 - Bob Rafelson) ... voted by bodybuilding associations the best bodybuilding picture of all time
'Smokey And The Bandit' (1977 - Hal Needham) ... major blockbuster that became the iconic face of the 1970s car craze and was one of Alfred Hitchcock's favourite movies
'Heroes' (1977 - Jeremy Kagan) ... heartfelt drama about army veterans with the Fonz
'Hooper' (1978 - Hal Needham) ... important tribute to the work of stunt performers
'Norma Rae' (1979 - Martin Ritt) ... regarded as one of the greatest union pictures in American cinema
'Absence Of Malice' (1981 - Sydney Pollack) ... radical legal thriller that brought the phrase "absence of malice" into common usage
'Places In The Heart' (1984 - Robert Benton) ... authentic Americana utilises groundbreaking cinematography techniques engineered by Nestor Almendros
'Surrender' (1987 - Jerry Belson) ... puts forward a progressive feminist text
'Punchline' (1988 - Jerry Seltzer) ... voted by stand-up comedians one of the five best pictures to deal with the professional lives of stand-up comics
'Steel Magnolias' (1989 - Herbert Ross) ... authentic American classic with all-star cast
'Little Old Lady From Pasadena' - Lesley Gore introduces Jan And Dean
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 16, 2018 23:28:43 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Jun 16, 2018 23:34:07 GMT
Make that 11.  |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 17, 2018 0:31:08 GMT
What?!? No mention of that midnight classic, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)? And then she and Michael Caine we're reunited, quite nakedly, in Surrender (1987), a movie no one seems to remember anymore. Just joshin' ya, petrolino, about BTPA, nice write up on Sally!  |
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Post by petrolino on Jun 17, 2018 0:35:47 GMT
What?!? No mention of that midnight classic, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)? And then she and Michael Caine we're reunited, quite nakedly, in Surrender (1987), a movie no one seems to remember anymore. Just joshin' ya, petrolino , about BTPA, nice write up on Sally! Awesome disaster pic. Make it 12.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 17, 2018 0:50:11 GMT
She's been in a lot of good and entertaining movies, both serious and car jumping ones.  The Way West 1967, marked her first credited movie role, acting with old giants like Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Richard Widmark. She had appeared in an uncredited role in Disney's Moon Pilot 1962, as a beatnik girl... |
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Post by spiderwort on Jun 17, 2018 1:17:44 GMT
One of the truly great American actresses who sadly has not gotten enough great work in her long career. There are moments in some of her best films that are breathtaking in their technique and deep emotional truths. My personal favorite is Places in the Heart. But one I would have to include is a two part tv movie, SYBIL (1976). It's the first work she did after she studied at the Actors Studio, and her performance in it as a woman with multiple personalities is simply brilliant. It's the breakout role which won her her first Emmy and led her to film stardom and Oscars. Joanne Woodward is also exceptional playing the psychiatrist in it (an interesting bit of Hollywood serendipity, given that she won her Oscar for her multiple personality performance in The Three Faces of Eve). Anyway, if you haven't seen it and can find it, it's a stunning bit of work.     |
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 17, 2018 1:44:46 GMT
I have a certain fondness for a TV movie she made about a girl who leaves home for the counterculture.  |
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 17, 2018 2:29:28 GMT
Her short-lived (one season) TV show Gidget was a hoot. Antenna TV broadcasts it, or used to.  |
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Post by marianne48 on Jun 17, 2018 2:59:01 GMT
I have a certain fondness for a TV movie she made about a girl who leaves home for the counterculture. This was one of my favorites of the cautionary-tales-of-troubled-teens subgenre of the late 1960s-late 1970s. There were a lot of these in those days: Sarah T., Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic; Born Innocent; Cage Without a Key; Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker; Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway;
and The Girls of Huntington House. These movies scared me more than any horror movie did; they taught me that being a teenager was fraught with dangers at every turn, and even one youthful indiscretion could be your doom. I guess that's why I was a nervous wreck once I entered my teenage years. Kids today need movies of this subgenre. My classic anti-drug trilogy: Go Ask Alice
The People Next Door
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 17, 2018 3:13:17 GMT
TV and "of its time" but she did quite well in 82 episodes. Almost sounds possible : "The large headgear on 90-pound novice Sister Bertrille, of the convent San Tanco in Puerto Rico, enables her to fly in any stiff breeze. Her gift enables her to aid others, whether they wish it or not."
The Flying Nun (1967-1970)  |
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Post by petrolino on Jun 17, 2018 3:23:12 GMT
Her short-lived (one season) TV show Gidget was a hoot. Antenna TV broadcasts it, or used to. Never saw 'Gidget' but I've seen the odd clip on youtube; same with 'The Singing Nun' show she did. |
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 17, 2018 3:26:54 GMT
Her short-lived (one season) TV show Gidget was a hoot. Antenna TV broadcasts it, or used to. Never saw 'Gidget' but I've seen the odd clip on youtube; same with 'The Singing Nun' show she did. The nun didn't sing. She flew. Didn't care for that one. Gidget is great. In the mid-60s I was head ever heels for Sally Field, Annette Funicello, and Shelley Fabares. |
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Post by deembastille on Jun 17, 2018 3:53:01 GMT
[what an adorable haircut she had in that bodybuilding movie with ahnold!]
she's another one who can do anything and make it believable [and likable].
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 17, 2018 4:08:38 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 17, 2018 4:16:14 GMT
petrolinoNo way is TEN enough for this terrific lady ! Not an "early" Sally but as Momma Gump what she had to say was memorable.  Nominated for an Academy Award for LINCOLN 
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Post by deembastille on Jun 17, 2018 4:56:10 GMT
BATouttaheck... your first picture shows the two actors who can do ANYTHING and make it believable and likable! also loved the absolute shit out of her as mama Lincoln.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 17, 2018 9:35:04 GMT
petrolino No way is TEN enough for this terrific lady ! Not an "early" Sally but as Momma Gump what she had to say was memorable. Nominated for an Academy Award for LINCOLN 'Lincoln' is one of my favourite political biopics, so glad she earned an Oscar nomination for her work.
I did exercise my own cut-off point as 1990, but moving forward in time, here's one of my favourtes which makes a cracking double-bill with 'Absence Of Malice', John Schlesinger's 'Eye For An Eye' (1996) ...
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 17, 2018 10:22:09 GMT
Confession: I paid good money to go to the theatre to see Not Without My Daughter (1991) and I liked it. I also cried when Sally loses it at the funeral in Steel Magnolia.   |
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Post by petrolino on Jun 17, 2018 10:40:01 GMT
Confession: I paid good money to go to the theatre to see Not Without My Daughter (1991) and I liked it. I also cried when Sally loses it at the funeral in Steel Magnolia. I saw 'Not Without My Daughter' on VHS video. Powerful viewing experience.
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