# Sally Field- That's what she's going to be remembered for??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591 "2009-08-25T02:49:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/41 "2009-08-25T16:44:17Z")
> [@Oy](#): > > Quick hijack: who was supposedly making those noises? The Principal, or Mrs. Gump? I’ve wondered that since 1994. Is this a whoosh? The \*\*bedsprings \*\*were making that noise. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/42 "2009-08-25T17:11:00Z")
I was born in 1971. She’ll always be Frog from the Bandit movies AFAIC. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/43 "2009-08-25T17:22:39Z")
1. The Flying Nun. 2. Her acceptance speech for the Oscar for Norma Rae, as Stephe96 quoted 3. Smokey and the Bandit (and, for that matter, being Burt Reynolds’s squeeze for a while there) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/44 "2009-08-25T17:24:27Z")
Flying Nun ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/45 "2009-08-25T17:27:28Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > Her entire career deleted itself in my brain after about the 9,000th time I heard her say “Boniva.” > > That name is so damn irritating. It’s a pill for your bones, and it’s called bone-eeva. It’s like a spike to the brain every time I hear it. It’d be like a pill for your heart called Hearticin. Stupid. > > Anyway, I’m sort of a young’n, so I mostly know her from _Mrs. Doubtfire_. My only regret…is that I have… boneitis. ---
**Author:** ![bleu\_ewe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@bleu\_ewe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleu_ewe)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/46 "2009-08-25T17:32:55Z")
I’ll always remember her for playing my mom’s mom in that movie they did. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/47 "2009-08-25T17:38:54Z")
She also is/was in “Brothers and Sisters” which althogh I’ve seen maybe 5 episodes of came first to mind since it is the most recent thing I’ve seen her in other than commercials. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/48 "2009-08-25T17:46:29Z")
Sally Field is a very, very, accomplished and professional actress. I’ll always remember her as “Giget” in the two-piece bathing suit! :eek: I hope she continues her career for many years to come. (She’s a sweetie!) ---
**Author:** ![Kalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/df705f/32.png) [@Kalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalypso)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/49 "2009-08-25T17:49:22Z")
I’ll second remembering her as Abby’s bi-polar mom in ER. I cried a good bit watching those episodes. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/50 "2009-08-25T19:05:45Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > 1. Her acceptance speech for the Oscar for Norma Rae, as Stephe96 quoted [ul] [li]Correction: for _Places in the Heart_[/li][li](And the actual quote is: “You like me, right now, you like me!”)[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/51 "2009-08-25T19:21:58Z")
She’s Frog to me. I picture her in her wedding dress standing next to the highway. And also dancing her feet on the windshield of Bandit’s Trans Am. ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/52 "2009-08-25T19:36:21Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Nobody thought “Gidget”? Nobody? I did! That’s always what I think of first with relation to Sally Field. To me, she is and always will be Gidget. And yes, I’m old, I guess. I was a young kid when Gidget was popular, and I wanted to be a fun cute surfing teenager like she was. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/53 "2009-08-25T20:08:53Z")
Gidget! Yeah! And “Places in the Heart” – yeah! I can’t comment on “Stay Hungry” since I’ve never seen it. Maybe I should at least look it up. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/54 "2009-08-25T20:17:48Z")
How can so many people who thought “The Flying Nun” first not think of “Gidget” instead? Oh, well, she’s done a remarkable job of staying hot over the decades since. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/55 "2009-08-25T20:20:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh, well, she’s done a remarkable job of staying hot over the decades since. She looks pretty good for her age I admit, but hot? That requires photographic evidence. Back your claims good sir! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/56 "2009-08-25T20:35:32Z")
Back to say that my first thought was The Flying Nun, followed by Norma Rae and then ER. Actually, I could list dozens of her roles. I just thought it was interesting that Mrs. Doubtfire was the only thing that came to mind for the DJs; she’s done a lot since then, not only before then. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/57 "2009-08-25T20:40:17Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > That name is so damn irritating. It’s a pill for your bones, and it’s called bone-eeva. It’s like a spike to the brain every time I hear it. It’d be like a pill for your heart called Hearticin. Stupid. Or Anusol. But honestly, I just now got that Bone -\> Boniva thing. I think I was thinking of _bon_ = good. :smack: I remember her for Norma Rae, Places in the Heart, and Soapdish. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/58 "2009-08-25T20:42:58Z")
I always think of _Smokey and the Bandit_ first, then “You really like me!”, then _Norma Rae_. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/59 "2009-08-25T22:16:10Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Nobody thought “Gidget”? Nobody? Post #24! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/60 "2009-08-25T22:27:28Z")
> [@Kalypso](#): > > I’ll second remembering her as Abby’s bi-polar mom in ER. I cried a good bit watching those episodes. That’s the most recent thing I’ve seen her in, but the role I remember most is the main character in [Murphy’s Romance](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089643/). So, who has Sally in the Doper Dead Pool anyway? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591.md?page=4)