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...portrayals of embattled, strong-willed women (in Norma Rae and Places in the Heart) won her two Academy Awards and forever erased her flibberti-Gidget, Flying Nun image. At first glance, Sally Field, 38, seemed to be mining the same emotional vein in Murphy's Romance, the new movie she made in Arizona with James Garner. It is about a divorcée who moves to a small Western town to take over a horse farm with her twelve-year-old son. But wait, this is no grim battle with mean local bosses or foreclosing bankers. "It's a lighter film...
...kidney ailment; in Manhattan. She spent most of her life playing the parts of bird-minded flibbertigibbets. She had a thwacking success in one serious role: the pathologically possessive mother in Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord. When sound came to the cinema she went to Hollywood, was flibberti-gibbety Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind. As one of the solicitous old poisoners in Arsenic and Old Lace she played her last part; she was the fourth famed character actress to die in five weeks (the others: Dame Marie Tempest, May Robson, Edna May Oliver...
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