Norma Rae

Status:
Released
Production:
20th Century Fox
Aired:
1979-03-02
Norma Rae
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.
Drama
Characters

Sally Field
Norma Rae

Beau Bridges
Sonny

Ron Leibman
Reuben

Pat Hingle
Vernon

Barbara Baxley
Leona

Gail Strickland
Bonnie Mae

Morgan Paull
Wayne Billings
Robert Broyles
Sam Bolen

John Calvin
Ellis Harper

Booth Colman
Dr. Watson

Lee de Broux
Lujan

James Luisi
George Benson

Vernon Weddle
Reverend Hubbard

Gilbert Green
Al Landon

Bob Minor
Lucius White

Grace Zabriskie
Linette Odum
Stuart Culpepper
Ray Towner

Mary Munday
Mrs. Johnson
Jack Stryker
J.J. Davis

Gregory Walcott
Lamar Miller

Noble Willingham
Leroy Mason

Lonny Chapman
Gardner

Bert Freed
Sam Dakin
Bob Hannah
Jed Buffum
Edith Ivey
Louise Pickens
Scott Lawton
Craig

Frank McRae
James Brown
Gerry Okuneff
Pinkerton Man
Gina Kaye Pounders
Millie

Henry Slate
Policeman
Melissa Ann Wait
Alice
Joe Dorsey
Woodrow Thompson
Sherry Velvet Foster
Velma Stackhouse
Weona T. Brown
Hot Dog Vendor
Carolyn Danforth
Mavis Pruitt
James W. Harris
Mill Worker

Charlie Briggs
Warren Latting
Billie Joyce Buck
Agnes Roy
Fred Covington
Alston Purvis
J. Don Ferguson
Peter Gallat

Sandra Dorsey
Jail Matron

Harold E. Finch
Agent

Clayton Landey
Teddy Bob Keeler
Bill Pannell
Billy Stettin

George R. Robertson
Farmer
Thomas D. Samford III
Justice of the Peace
Roy Tatum
Woodrow Bowser
Paul Ellen
TV Reporter (uncredited)
Jerry Michael Ray
TV Reporter (uncredited)

Martin Ritt
Factory Worker (uncredited)