# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/61 "2009-08-25T23:08:28Z")
_The Flying Nun_, definitely. After that, the Oscars speech, and after that, _Norma Rae_ (specifically the UNION sign). Oh, and I never think of Gidget because I never saw it. _The Flying Nun_ was in reruns when I was a kid, Gidget wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/62 "2009-08-26T01:51:10Z")
I’ve actually seen Gidget, so that’s what I’ll remember most. I had no idea she was in Mrs. Doubtfire, and I’ve seen it. Smokey and the Bandit will be shown on cable more than her dramatic roles will be, due to the LCD. ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/63 "2009-08-26T03:31:39Z")
I think of Gidget first, then the Oscar speech, then the Fling Nun. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/64 "2009-08-26T03:33:00Z")
For me, **Sybil** will always be the first thing I think of when I think Sally Field, then **Norma Rae** , then a really obscure film that no one but me ever saw, but I loved it so much I saw it several times in the theater (well, Drive-In), [Heroes](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0076138/), with Henry Winkler very moving as a psychologically troubled Vietnam vet and Harrison Ford wonderful as his dim redneck friend back before he got really famous (and when I hear “Carry On My Wayward Son” I think of **Heroes** ). Then sort of smooshed together, **Stay Hungry** , **The End** , **Steel Magnolias** , **Places In The Heart** , **Smokey and the Bandit** , **Hooper** and **Soapdish**. Then **Not Without My Daughter** , **Murphy’s Romance** and **Absence of Malice**. I never saw the ER episodes she was in, and thankfully I’ve never seen these recent commercials people are talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/65 "2009-08-26T12:32:22Z")
> [@maplekiwi](#): > > I think of Gidget first, then the Oscar speech, then the Fling Nun. \*The Fling Nun \*is a whole different show entirely. That Carlos Ramirez was a persuasive guy. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/66 "2009-08-26T12:33:26Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Is this a whoosh? The \*\*bedsprings \*\*were making that noise. Well, that’s the first time I’ve ever seen _that_ suggested. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/67 "2009-08-26T14:06:00Z")
Didn’t you hear the noises? They were squeaky, creaky noises, like what you hear when you roll over in a really old bed. (And no, roll over is _not_ what the kids are calling it these days.) The first thing I think of when I think Sally Field is Gidget, because our Fox affiliate carried it in the afternoons when I was a kid, in between Love: American Style and The Beverly Hillbillies. I can see how for someone around my age (mid 30’s) whose Fox affiliate didn’t carry that, or who didn’t watch it, would automatically associate Sally Fields with Mrs. Doubtfire, though. She’s been in a lot of stuff since then, but I’ve only seen Forrest Gump and her stint on ER and she wasn’t a major, central character in either of them. The rest of it is all stuff I’ve either never heard of or thought looked like maudlin twaddle. The mom is Mrs. Doubtfire is the last lead role she’s done that has really put the butts in the seats. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/68 "2009-08-26T14:54:17Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > Anyway, I’m sort of a young’n, so I mostly know her from _Mrs. Doubtfire_. This is as good a place as any to remember that the morning zoo keepers have a job to do. They’re responsible for raking and cleaning the public memory so that there’s a nice clean space for the ad and media beasts to “do their business.” > [@](#): > > 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. Ain’t it though? But I watch every ad. Because Sally is about the most _bonable_ 62yo out there. I especially love that thing she does with her [feet](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3582/3286819603_619ed1b8d3.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/69 "2009-08-26T15:12:57Z")
For me it’s ‘Not without my daughter’ then nobody mentioned it on the first page so I got all confused and thought I must be confusing someone else with Sally Field…so I checked IMDB and yay she is the one from ‘Not without my Daughter’…phew ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/70 "2009-08-26T16:47:28Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > The Fling Nun is a whole different show entirely. That Carlos Ramirez was a persuasive guy. Well, his establishment wasn’t called **Casino a Go Go** for nothing.😉 ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/71 "2009-08-26T18:39:54Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > 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/). This is one of my favorite all-time “little” movies that nobody has heard of. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/72 "2009-08-26T18:44:33Z")
I love that movie, too. James Garner is hawt! 😉 They had great chemistry. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/73 "2009-08-26T19:23:22Z")
Totally going off topic to say that I just now got that Anusol thing. ---
**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 26, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/74 "2009-08-26T20:15:18Z")
> [@kath94](#): > > This is one of my favorite all-time “little” movies that nobody has heard of. You might like [The Year of the Comet](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105871/). It’s also a sweet romance that few people seem to have heard of. The leading man’s not as sexy as Garner, but few young men are. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/75 "2009-08-26T21:06:55Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > First recollection of her is in the Flying Nun. She’s actually done a lot of good stuff, including “Places in the Heart.” Oh, yeah, I knew I knew her from some movie without Tom Hanks. Yeah, that’s good Sally Field. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/76 "2009-08-26T21:13:54Z")
> [@maplekiwi](#): > > . . . the Fling Nun. Does this involve velcro? ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/77 "2009-08-26T21:14:59Z")
Wasn’t she _Gidget_? Not old enough to remember the actual show, but a couple of years ago MeTV was showing reruns. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/78 "2009-08-26T21:17:53Z")
For dismembering and eating a hobo in Time Square. ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591/79 "2009-08-26T22:07:25Z")
In Forrest Gump, doesn’t young Forrest imitate the noises he hears as the Principal walks out the house? It’s a wheezing he does, which I assume is imitating the wheezing that the Principal does while having sex. Anyway, I’ll always remember Sally Field as admitting on Johnny Carson that she lost her virginity at age 12. Johnny said he must’ve been a late bloomer as he lost it at age 17. They also talked about how the girl who would play Gidget and the Flying Nun was already sexually active so early. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sally-field-thats-what-shes-going-to-be-remembered-for/507591.md?page=3)