Beau Bridges Sally Field NORMA RAE Original screenplay for the 1979 film #160000

  

Norma Rae (Original screenplay for the 1979 film). Author: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Liebman (starring); Martin Ritt (director); Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr. (screenwriters) Title: Norma Rae (Original screenplay for the 1979 film) Publication: Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Description: Revised Draft script for the 1979 film.

Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their name in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper. Inspired by the real life story of Crystal Lee Sutton, a single mother who fought to unionize a textile company.

Sally Field would win Best Actress at both Cannes and the Academy Awards, and the film would be nominated for both the Palme d'Or and Best Picture. Nominated for two additional Academy Awards, winning one. Green titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers, dated March 13, 1978. Title page present, dated March 13, 1978, with credits for screenwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr.

X leaves, with last page of text numbered X. Xerographic duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated 3/27/78. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Subject: 1970s Cinema, Academy Awards, Film Scripts, National Film Registry, Social Justice, Radical, and Proletarian Interest, Women's Interest.

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