Sally Field

Field has three sons, two from her first and one from her second marriage. Betty Grable died of lung cancer in 1973 at the age of only 56 and was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California. In 1984 she married Alan Greisman, but divorced again in 1993. Gradually leaving movies entirely, she made the transition to television, and starred in Las Vegas. She was first married to Steven Craig from 1968 to 1975 and divorced. Zanuck, she tore up her contract with him and stormed out of his office. Field dated Burt Reynolds during many years, but never accepted his proposals of marriage. At one point, in the middle of a fight with Darryl F.

She won another Oscar in 1984 for her starring role in Places in the Heart: her gushing acceptance speech is one of the best known of its kind, including the much-parodied line, "You like me, you really like me.". Grable's later career was marked by feuds with studio heads, who worked her to exhaustion. In 1979, she starred as a union organizer in Norma Rae, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1943, she married jazz trumpeter and big band leader Harry James. They divorced in 1965. She won an Emmy Award for her performance. In 1937, she married another famous child actor, Jackie Coogan, but Coogan was under considerable stress due to his lawsuit against his parents over his earnings, and they divorced in 1940. In 1976, Field was finally able to show that she could play this kind of role, starring as the title character afflicted with multiple personality syndrome in the TV film Sybil. Grable finally obtained a role in Whoopee!, starring Eddie Cantor and eventually played in some twenty films by 1939, including the Academy Award-nominated The Gay Divorcee, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Having played mostly comic characters on television, Field was not initially regarded as having much potential as a dramatic actress. It was at this time that she was photographed in the pin-up poster that was so popular among American GIs ten years later. She then went on to star in The Flying Nun. For her next film, her mother tried to get her to sign a contract using false I.D., but when this was discovered, she was fired. She got her start on television, starring as the boy-struck surfer-girl in the series Gidget. For her first role, as a chorus girl in the film Let's Go Places (1930) Grable was legally under the age to act, but because the chorus line performed in blackface, it was impossible to tell how old she was. Her mother, Margaret Field, was an actress, and her step-father, a former stunt-man, was Western actor Jock Mahoney. Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, she was propelled into acting by her mother, who insisted that one of her daughters become a star.

Born in Pasadena, California, she grew up in a Hollywood family. Ruth Elizabeth "Betty" Grable (December 18, 1916 - July 3, 1973) was an American actress, singer and pin-up girl, whose famous bathing suit poster was an icon of the World War II era. Sally Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American movie and television actress. Stay Hungry (1976). Smokey and the Bandit (1977).

Heroes (1977). The End (1978). Hooper (1978). Norma Rae (1979).

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979). Smokey and the Bandit II (1980). Back Roads (1981). Absence of Malice (1981).

Kiss Me Goodbye (1982). Places in the Heart (1984). Murphy's Romance (1985). Surrender (1987).

Punchline (1988). Steel Magnolias (1989). Not Without My Daughter (1991). Soapdish (1991).

Doubtfire (1993). Mrs. Forrest Gump (1994). Eye for an Eye (1996).