Norma Rae(1979)
movie - first aired/released 1979-03-02 - 110 min - audience 7.2
Drama
Directed by Martin Ritt
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
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Cast
Sally FieldNorma Rae
Ron LeibmanReuben
Beau BridgesSonny
Pat HingleVernon
Barbara BaxleyLeona
Gail StricklandBonnie Mae
Morgan PaullWayne Billings- Robert BroylesSam Bolen
John CalvinEllis Harper
Booth ColmanDr. Watson
Lee de BrouxLujan
James LuisiGeorge Benson
Vernon WeddleReverend Hubbard
Gilbert GreenAl Landon
Bob MinorLucius White
Grace ZabriskieLinette Odum- Stuart CulpepperRay Towner
Mary MundayMrs. Johnson
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- Jack StrykerJ.J. Davis
Gregory WalcottLamar Miller
Noble WillinghamLeroy Mason
Lonny ChapmanGardner
Bert FreedSam Dakin
Bob HannahJed Buffum- Edith IveyLouise Pickens
- Scott LawtonCraig
Frank McRaeJames Brown- Gerry OkuneffPinkerton Man
- Gina Kaye PoundersMillie
Henry SlatePoliceman- Melissa Ann WaitAlice
- Joe DorseyWoodrow Thompson
- Sherry Velvet FosterVelma Stackhouse
- Weona T. BrownHot Dog Vendor
- Carolyn DanforthMavis Pruitt
- James W. HarrisMill Worker
Charlie BriggsWarren Latting- Billie Joyce BuckAgnes Roy
- Fred CovingtonAlston Purvis
J. Don FergusonPeter Gallat
Sandra DorseyJail Matron
Harold E. FinchAgent
Clayton LandeyTeddy Bob Keeler- Bill PannellBilly Stettin
George R. RobertsonFarmer- Thomas D. Samford IIIJustice of the Peace
- Roy TatumWoodrow Bowser
- Paul EllenTV Reporter (uncredited)
- Jerry Michael RayTV Reporter (uncredited)
Martin RittFactory Worker (uncredited)
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