Norma Rae (1979)
Norma Rae (1979)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Sally Field
Norma Rae
Beau Bridges
Sonny
Ron Leibman
Reuben
Pat Hingle
Vernon
Barbara Baxley
Leona
Gail Strickland
Bonnie Mae
Morgan Paull
Wayne Billings
Robert Broyles
Sam Bolen
John Calvin
Ellis Harper
Lee de Broux
Lujan
Booth Colman
Dr. Watson
Martin Ritt
Director
James Luisi
George Benson
Vernon Weddle
Reverend Hubbard
Irving Ravetch
Writer
Gilbert Green
Al Landon
Harriet Frank Jr.
Writer
Tamara Asseyev
Producer
Bob Minor
Lucius White
Alexandra Rose
Producer
Grace Zabriskie
Linette Odum
David Shire
Composer
Stuart Culpepper
Ray Towner
Mary Munday
Mrs. Johnson
John A. Alonzo
Cinematographer
Sidney Levin
Editor
Jack Stryker
J.J. Davis
Jane Feinberg
CastingDirector
Gregory Walcott
Lamar Miller
Mike Fenton
CastingDirector
Noble Willingham
Leroy Mason
Lonny Chapman
Gardner
Walter Scott Herndon
ProductionDesigner
Bert Freed
Sam Dakin
Bob Hannah
Jed Buffum
Edith Ivey
Louise Pickens
Scott Lawton
Craig
Frank McRae
James Brown
Gerry Okuneff
Pinkerton Man
Gina Kaye Pounders
Millie
Henry Slate
Policeman
Melissa Ann Wait
Alice
Joe Dorsey
Woodrow Thompson
Sherry Velvet Foster
Velma Stackhouse
Weona T. Brown
Hot Dog Vendor
Carolyn Danforth
Mavis Pruitt
James W. Harris
Mill Worker
Charlie Briggs
Warren Latting
Billie Joyce Buck
Agnes Roy
Fred Covington
Alston Purvis
J. Don Ferguson
Peter Gallat
Sandra Dorsey
Jail Matron
Harold E. Finch
Agent
Clayton Landey
Teddy Bob Keeler
Bill Pannell
Billy Stettin
George R. Robertson
Farmer
Thomas D. Samford III
Justice of the Peace
Roy Tatum
Woodrow Bowser
Paul Ellen
TV Reporter (uncredited)
Jerry Michael Ray
TV Reporter (uncredited)
Theodore Soderberg
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Tom Ellingwood
Makeup Artist
Paul Wells
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
William Turner
Makeup Artist
Lola 'Skip' McNalley
Hairstylist
Elaina P. Schulman
Hairstylist
Tracy Bousman
Art Direction
William Hartman
Sound Editor
Richard Sperber
Sound Editor
Douglas O. Williams
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Bruce Bisenz
Sound Mixer
H. Bud Otto
Script Supervisor
Godfrey Marks
Dialogue Editor
Dan Perri
Title Designer
Margaret Adachi
Assistant Editor
James Nicholson
Assistant Director
Gregory Garrison
Set Decoration
Cliffe Oland
Assistant Editor
Skip Surguine
Second Assistant Director
Norman Gimbel
Sound / Lyricist
William Van der Byl
Special Effects
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 2, 1979
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 50m
Content RatingPG
Budget$4,500,000
Box Office$22,228,000
Filming LocationsAlabama, United States of America
Genres
Wiki.
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 – which was told in the 1975 book Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by reporter Henry P. Leifermann of The New York Times – and stars Sally Field in the title role. Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Barbara Baxley, and Gail Strickland are featured in supporting roles. The film follows Norma Rae Webster, a factory worker with little formal education in North Carolina who, after her and her co-workers' health are compromised due to poor working conditions, becomes involved in trade union activities at the textile factory where she works.Norma Rae premiered at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival where it competed for the Palme d'Or, while Field won the Best Actress Prize. It was theatrically released by 20th Century-Fox on March 2, 1979, to critical and commercial success. Reviewers praised the film's direction, its screenplay, its message, and especially Field's performance, while the film grossed $22 million on a production budget of $4.5 million. The film received four nominations at the 52nd Academy Awards including Best Picture and won two: Best Actress (for Field) and Best Original Song for its theme song "It Goes Like It Goes". The film is considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant by the U.S. Library of Congress and was selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 2011.