Norma Rae

Still not comfortable in her new job as a floor supervisor, Sally Field (title character) strikes up a sudden acquaintance with fellow mill worker Sonny (Beau Bridges), her dad (Pat Hingle) not approving, in Martin Ritt's Norma Rae, 1979.

A young single mother (Sally Field) and her co-worker try to unionize the mill where they work in Norma Rae (1979).

North Carolina mill worker Sally Field (title character) gets promoted for griping by Gardner (Lonny Chapman), causing almost immediate conflict with her fellow-employee father (Pat Hingle), early in Martin Ritt's Norma Rae, 1979.

Real photos of the young Sally Field (title character), Martin Ritt directing factory scenes from Opelika, Alabama, and Jennifer Warnes' much-praised rendering of the Oscar-winning song by David Shire and Norman Gimbel, opening Norma Rae, 1979.

Sally Field (title character) in the crowd as New York union organizer Reuben (Ron Liebman) makes his famous speech in a back-woods North Carolina church, her pal Bonnie Mae (Gail Strickland) among his supporters, in Martin Ritt's Norma Rae, 1979.