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Movie · 1979

Norma Rae

Released 2 March 1979 More from 1979 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

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.

FR·01

How old were they?

Oldest first
Bert Freed
as Sam Dakin
59
Barbara Baxley
as Leona
56
Gregory Walcott
as Lamar Miller
51
Joe Dorsey
as Woodrow Thompson
47
Sally Field
as Norma Rae
32
John Calvin
as Ellis Harper
31
FR·02

The numbers

Computed from the cast above
28years between the oldest and youngest billed
59Bert Freed — oldest on the call sheet
31John Calvin — youngest billed
46average age of the credited cast
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