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Based On Novel Or Book | Factory
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Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama | 1980 | Sally
Best Actress | 1979 | Sally
Best Actress | 1979 | Sally
Best Actress | 1980 | Sally
Best Actress | 1980 | Sally
Best Actress | 1979 | Sally
Best Actress | 1979 | Sally
1979 | Martin
1979 | Sally
Best Picture | 1980 | Alexandra
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 1980 | Irving
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | 1980 | Irving
Budget 4,500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 22,228,000 USD
The film is based on a real-life union organizing campaign at J.P. Stevens Mill in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Norma Rae is based on Crystal Lee Sutton. Reuben Warshowsky, the union organizer, is based on Eli Zivkovich, a 55-year-old former West Virginia coal miner. In 1974, thanks to the efforts of Sutton and Zivkovich, workers at J.P. Stevens Mill voted to join the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. However, it took 10 years for the union to get a contract. Some real-life events are re-created verbatim in the movie, including Norma Rae holding up the "UNION" sign and the plant workers shutting down their machines, and Norma Rae waking up her children to tell them about her relationships with their fathers.
Sally Field and Beau Bridges researched their roles by working in a factory.
Sally Field did the film against Burt Reynolds' advice, and afterward ended their relationship.
Director Martin Ritt once said of Crystal Lee Sutton, "I've known a lot of women in my life, most of them much more educated and sophisticated, who would not have had the balls that she had."
Crystal Lee Sutton died September 11, 2009, in Burlington, N.C. She was 68.
"Norma Rae Webster: Forget it! I'm stayin' right where I am. It's gonna take you and the police department and the fire department and the National Guard to get me outta here!"
"Reuben Warshowsky: On October 4, 1970, my grandfather, Isaac Abraham Warshowsky, aged eighty-seven, died in his sleep in New York City. On the following Friday morning, his funeral was held. My mother and father attended, my two uncles from Brooklyn attended, my Aunt Minnie came up from Florida. Also present were eight hundred and sixty-two members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and Cloth, Hat and Cap Makers' Union. Also members of his family. In death as in life, they stood at his side. They had fought battles with him, bound the wounds of battle with him, had earned bread together and had broken it together. When they spoke, they spoke in one voice, and they were heard. They were black, they were white, they were Irish, they were Polish, they were Catholic, they were Jews, they were one. That's what a union is: one... Ladies and gentlemen, the textile industry, in which you are spending your lives and your substance, and in which your children and their children will spend their lives and their substance, is the only industry in the whole length and breadth of the United States of America that is not unionized. Therefore, they are free to exploit you, to cheat you, to lie to you, and to take away what is rightfully yours - your health, a decent wage, a fit place to work. I would urge you to stop them by coming down to room 207 at the Golden Cherry Motel, to pick up a union card and to sign it... It comes from the Bible - according to the tribes of your fathers, ye shall inherit. It comes from Reuben Warshowsky - not unless you make it happen."
