Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Martin Ritt (March 2, 1914 – December 8, 1990) was an American director, producer, and actor, active in film, theatre and television. He was known mainly as an auteur of socially-conscious dramas and literary adaptations, [1] described by Stanley Kauffmann as "one of the most underrated American directors, superbly competent and quietly imaginative."
Grundy had 3 prior DWI convictions. He was arrested a fourth time for DWI in 2011 and, instead of facing the charges, left the country to play abroad until he was arrested again in 2017. [341] Henry James: Retired Dealing cocaine: 5 years [342] [343] "Fast" Eddie Johnson: Retired Burglary, robbery, drug possession, sexual assault on a minor
Field, 77, was nominated for her role in Norma Rae, which also earned her a Golden Globe Award. In the new book, 50 Oscar Nights, to be published Tuesday, January 23, Field claimed that Reynolds ...
When Wald greenlighted the film and asked Ravetch to choose a director, he suggested Martin Ritt, whom he knew from the Group Theatre and the Actors Studio in New York City. [3] The Long, Hot Summer proved to be the first of eight projects – including The Sound and the Fury (1959), Hud (1963), Norma Rae (1979), Murphy's Romance (1985), and ...
The British-born director of a tony Washington, D.C., preschool was arrested Tuesday morning on charges that he solicited graphic sex abuse footage of a 9-year-old boy, via the child’s father ...
The Front is a 1976 American drama film set against the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s, when artists, writers, directors, and others were rendered unemployable, having been accused of subversive political activities in support of Communism or of being Communists themselves.