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Additional authors

1. Lipton, James
2. Field, Sally
3. Del Prete, Lou
4. Wurtz, Jeff
5. Badalamenti, Angelo
6. Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.)
7. Bravo Cable Network.
8. In the Moment Productions, Ltd.
9. Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.), donor.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. James Lipton hosts an evening of discussion with actor Sally Field. Field discusses her upbringing in California's San Fernando Valley, the daughter of actress Margaret Field and Richard Dryden Field, and the stepdaughter of stuntman Jock Mahoney. Field speaks about her childhood shyness, and her anger, which propelled her acting; her early forays into stage acting in junior high school; getting her start on television as a teenager in the mid-1960s sitcom series Gidget, from which she went on to star in popular television comedy The flying nun; and her training with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. Field examines her roles in the 1976 motion picture Stay hungry, in the 1976 made-for-television movie Sybil, in Smokey and the bandit (1977), Norma Rae (1979), the 1984 motion picture Places in the heart, and in Steel magnolias (1989). The discussion is illustrated with clips from some of these works. Field discusses the difficulties of sustaining an emotion over several camera takes, and her deep desire as an actor "to be good." A brief question and answer session with Field and the Actors Studio master's degree students concludes the program.

Series statement

1. Inside the Actors Studio

Alternative title

1. Inside the Actors Studio : The craft of theater and film

Subject

1. Gidget (Television program)
2. Smokey and the bandit (Motion picture)
3. Field, Sally > Friends and associates
4. Places in the heart (Motion picture)
5. Field, Sally > Interviews
6. Talk shows
7. Interviews
8. Sybil (Television program)
9. Actresses > Interviews
10. Television
11. Steel magnolias (Motion picture)
12. Musical theater > Production and direction
13. Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
14. Stay hungry (Motion picture)
15. Field, Sally > Family
16. Flying nun (Television program)

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Talk shows.
3. Television.

Call number

1. NCOX 1748

Note

1. Originally broadcast on the Bravo Network.
2. Credits and title from video.
3. "In the Moment Productions, Ltd." --credits at end of video.

Credits (note)

1. Original music by Angelo Badalamenti.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped at the John L. Tishman Theater of The New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y. on Feb. 6, 1995. First broadcast on May 3, 1995.

Title

1. Inside the Actors Studio. Sally Field [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network ; executive producer, James Lipton ; produced and directed Lou Del Prete ; written by James Lipton.

Imprint

1. New York, N.Y. : Actors Studio, c1995.

Series

1. Inside the Actors Studio

Credits

1. Original music by Angelo Badalamenti.

Performer

1. Host: James Lipton.

Event

1. Videotaped at the John L. Tishman Theater of The New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y. on Feb. 6, 1995. First broadcast on May 3, 1995.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Lipton, James, interviewer.
2. Lipton, James, producer.
3. Field, Sally, interviewee.
4. Del Prete, Lou, producer.
5. Del Prete, Lou, director.
6. Wurtz, Jeff, director.
7. Badalamenti, Angelo, composer.
8. Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.)
9. Bravo Cable Network.
10. In the Moment Productions, Ltd.
11. Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.), donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 1748