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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.
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."
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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 ...
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 ...
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Norma Rae: Nominated 1982: Kathleen Kennedy: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Nominated Shared with Steven Spielberg. 1984: Arlene Donovan Places in the Heart: Nominated 1985: Kathleen Kennedy The Color Purple: Nominated Shared with Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, and Quincy Jones. 1987: Sherry Lansing: Fatal Attraction: Nominated Shared with ...
Martin is most well-known for portraying Principal Willard Kraft in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Leon Carp in Roseanne and Colonel Mustard in Clue (1985), among countless other roles.