Blessed with boundless energy and charm, Sally Field was a natural choice for the All-American girl roles that brought her early stardom – the spunky girl surfer “Gidget” (ABC, 1965-66) and Sister Betrille in “The Flying Nun” (ABC, 1967-1970). In the 1970s, Field reinvented herself as a serious film actress with the Emmy-winning TV-movie “Sybil” (1976) and with her Oscar-winning turn as a labor organizer in “Norma Rae” (1979). Field’s popularity rarely waned over the next two decades – helped in large part by a fabled late 1970s romance with her “Smokey and the Bandit” (1977) co-star, Burt
