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Sally Field
Birth at
6 November 1946
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Sally Margaret Field. The daughter of Margaret Field, best known for The Man From Planet X, Sally was born in Pasadena on November 6, 1946. Her stepfather was actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney, who, despite the strained relationship between them, initiated the acting career of his adopted daughter. Sally started playing at school, but later she did not go to college to study in a summer theater studio. Energy and undoubted talent helped Sally win the lead role in the TV series Gidget. The series lasted
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Sally Margaret Field. The daughter of Margaret Field, best known for The Man From Planet X, Sally was born in Pasadena on November 6, 1946. Her stepfather was actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney, who, despite the strained relationship between them, initiated the acting career of his adopted daughter. Sally started playing at school, but later she did not go to college to study in a summer theater studio.
Energy and undoubted talent helped Sally win the lead role in the TV series Gidget. The series lasted only one season, but Field became popular among teenagers and in 1967 she was given another try. This time the series “The Flying Nun” lasted three seasons, and now there is talk of a sequel.
Around the same time, Field starred in the debut film – “The Way West”, but the audience almost did not notice it. Irregular appearances on stage and television, plus some of the details of his first marriage - the last season of "Flying Nun" Sally was pregnant - forced Field to reconsider his previous image. On television, she is definitely unlucky, all the series are empty and barely survive the first season. Finally, in 1975, Sally divorced, hired a new agent and decided to open the scene in the film “Stay Hungry” (at that time, it was not accepted to act naked) – the result was discouraging in all respects.
In 1976, Field received an Emmy Award for the television movie Sybil. She begins a long affair with Burt Reynolds, she rained invitations. But three years later, Sally decides that she has another crisis - now everyone considers her a "Reynolds girl", not an independent person. She starred in the film "Norma Ray", received an Oscar for it, four years lives a busy creative life, breaks off relations with Reynolds and remarries.
She is, indeed, a good actress, which is not difficult to see after watching the movie Forrest Gump, where she plays the mother of the main character. But was it worth the effort to fight his own image, which ended only with a couple of films that will remain in the memory of the audience?