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.
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.
I think of Gidget first, then the Oscar speech, then the Fling Nun.
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, 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.
*The Fling Nun *is a whole different show entirely. That Carlos Ramirez was a persuasive guy.
Well, that’s the first time I’ve ever seen that suggested.
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.
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.”
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.
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
Well, his establishment wasn’t called Casino a Go Go for nothing.
This is one of my favorite all-time “little” movies that nobody has heard of.
I love that movie, too. James Garner is hawt! They had great chemistry.
Totally going off topic to say that I just now got that Anusol thing.
You might like The Year of the Comet. 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. 
Oh, yeah, I knew I knew her from some movie without Tom Hanks. Yeah, that’s good Sally Field.
Does this involve velcro?
Wasn’t she Gidget? Not old enough to remember the actual show, but a couple of years ago MeTV was showing reruns.
For dismembering and eating a hobo in Time Square.
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.