Norma Rae

Norma Rae (1979)

The story of a woman with the courage to risk everything for what she believes is right.

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1979-03-02
  • User Rating: 7.145/10 from 165 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 50min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: 20th Century Fox
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Martin Ritt
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From 165 Ratings

Summary

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.

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  • Sally Field

    as Norma Rae
  • Beau Bridges

    as Sonny
  • Ron Leibman

    as Reuben
  • Pat Hingle

    as Vernon
  • Barbara Baxley

    as Leona
  • Gail Strickland

    as Bonnie Mae
  • Morgan Paull

    as Wayne Billings
  • Robert Broyles

    as Sam Bolen
  • John Calvin

    as Ellis Harper
  • Booth Colman

    as Dr. Watson
  • Lee de Broux

    as Lujan
  • James Luisi

    as George Benson
  • Vernon Weddle

    as Reverend Hubbard
  • Gilbert Green

    as Al Landon
  • Bob Minor

    as Lucius White
  • Grace Zabriskie

    as Linette Odum
  • Stuart Culpepper

    as Ray Towner
  • Mary Munday

    as Mrs. Johnson
  • Jack Stryker

    as J.J. Davis
  • Gregory Walcott

    as Lamar Miller
  • Noble Willingham

    as Leroy Mason
  • Lonny Chapman

    as Gardner
  • Bert Freed

    as Sam Dakin
  • Bob Hannah

    as Jed Buffum
  • Edith Ivey

    as Louise Pickens
  • Scott Lawton

    as Craig
  • Frank McRae

    as James Brown
  • Gerry Okuneff

    as Pinkerton Man
  • Gina Kaye Pounders

    as Millie
  • Henry Slate

    as Policeman
  • Melissa Ann Wait

    as Alice
  • Joe Dorsey

    as Woodrow Thompson
  • Sherry Velvet Foster

    as Velma Stackhouse
  • Weona T. Brown

    as Hot Dog Vendor
  • Carolyn Danforth

    as Mavis Pruitt
  • James W. Harris

    as Mill Worker
  • Charlie Briggs

    as Warren Latting
  • Billie Joyce Buck

    as Agnes Roy
  • Fred Covington

    as Alston Purvis
  • J. Don Ferguson

    as Peter Gallat
  • Sandra Dorsey

    as Jail Matron
  • Harold E. Finch

    as Agent
  • Clayton Landey

    as Teddy Bob Keeler
  • Bill Pannell

    as Billy Stettin
  • George R. Robertson

    as Farmer
  • Thomas D. Samford III

    as Justice of the Peace
  • Roy Tatum

    as Woodrow Bowser
  • Paul Ellen

    as TV Reporter (uncredited)
  • Jerry Michael Ray

    as TV Reporter (uncredited)
  • Martin Ritt

    as Factory Worker (uncredited)
Directing Martin Ritt Director
Writing Irving Ravetch Screenplay
Writing Harriet Frank Jr. Screenplay
Production Tamara Asseyev Producer
Production Alexandra Rose Producer
Sound David Shire Original Music Composer
Camera John A. Alonzo Director of Photography
Editing Sidney Levin Editor
Production Jane Feinberg Casting
Production Mike Fenton Casting
Art Dan Perri Title Designer
Sound Norman Gimbel Sound
Sound David Shire Songs
Writing Norman Gimbel Lyricist
Art Walter Scott Herndon Production Design
Art Tracy Bousman Art Direction
Art Gregory Garrison Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up Tom Ellingwood Makeup Artist
Costume & Make-Up Lola 'Skip' McNalley Hairstylist
Costume & Make-Up William Turner Makeup Artist
Costume & Make-Up Elaina P. Schulman Hairstylist
Directing James Nicholson Assistant Director
Directing Skip Surguine Second Assistant Director
Sound Bruce Bisenz Sound Mixer
Sound William Hartman Sound Editor
Sound Godfrey Marks Dialogue Editor
Sound Theodore Soderberg Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Sound Richard Sperber Sound Editor
Sound Paul Wells Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Sound Douglas O. Williams Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Crew William Van der Byl Special Effects
Editing Margaret Adachi Assistant Editor
Editing Cliffe Oland Assistant Editor
Directing H. Bud Otto Script Supervisor

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