Watch Sally Field Compete on 'The Dating Game' as a Bachelorette

Walter Scott
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12 fun facts about this year's SAG Life Achievement Award recipient.

This year’s Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (Feb. 26 on Netflix’s YouTube channel) goes to the wonderful and versatile Sally Field for her career achievements which began on TV with Gidget and The Flying Nun and segued to weighty roles in movies, including Norma Rae, Places in the Heart, Steel Magnolias, Forest Gump and Lincoln. Here are some facts about the native Californian, 76.

Sally Field Facts

—She was voted "Class Clown” in 1964 at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, Calif.

—Sally Field was twice a contestant on The Dating Game. Her first appearance was on the show's primetime premiere Oct. 6, 1966.

—She turned down the lead role of Loretta in the romantic comedy Moonstruck, which went to Cher.

—Sally Field gets a shoutout in the theme song of the 1980s television series The Fall Guy: “I’ve been on fire with Sally Field, gone fast with a girl named Bo. But somehow they just don’t end up as mine.”

—Sally Field co-starred with then-boyfriend Burt Reynolds in four films: Smokey and the Bandit, The End, Hooper and Smokey and the Bandit II.

—In 2015, Sally Field she was honored by President Obama with the National Medal of Arts.

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—In 2019, Field received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors.

—In Punchline, Field plays Tom Hanks' love interest. In Forrest Gump, they play mother and son.

—Field’s youngest son, Sam Greisman, who is gay, presented her with the 2012 Human Rights Campaign Ally for Equality award for her advocacy for gay rights issues.

—Field considers her on-screen kiss with James Garner as the best kiss she ever had. (Burt Reynolds: not so much.)

—While filming Norma Rae, Field struggled so hard in a scene where she’s arrested that she broke one actor’s rib and sprained the wrist of another.

—To prepare for Norma Rae, Field and co-star Beau Bridges worked in a real textile factory.

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