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YLANG-YLANG, France. Donated by Sally Field Notes Sally Field If life, as Sally Field advised co-star Tom Hanks in the 1994 blockbuster "Forrest Gump", is like a box of chocolates, we always know what we're going to get from one of the motion picture and television industry's most enduring performers. For over three decades, Americans have grown up apace with Sally Field 's acting career-from the bubbling effervescence of youth to a mature and intelligent, yet still feisty, heroine-and have applauded her rise as an award-winning actress and a respected producer, director, and spokesperson for Save the Children. Field's 1996 directing of ABC 's "The Christmas Tree" and her producing and starring in the NBC mini-series "A Woman of Independence Means " in 1995 marked her return to television after a series of box-office hits and behind the camera work for her own Fogwood Films production company. While her performance in movies such as "Forrest Gump " and "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993) remain fresh in our memory, Fields' irrepressible spunk had already won over audiences and critics years ago-most notably her Oscar-winning portrayal of a union organizer in "Norma Rae" (1978), "Absence of Malice", (1981) and "Places of the Heart", (1994) , for which she won a second Oscar. Through Fogwood Films, Field also produced and starred in "Murphy's Romance " (1985) and produced "Dying Young" (1991). Recognized by television viewers in the late 1960's as the nun Read more…