Sally Field Reflects on Dangerous Abortion Before Gidget Fame Long before she became America’s sunny, surf-loving swee ...

Before she portrayed “the little girl with big ideas” on the 1960s television series “Gidget,” Sally Field began her acting career auditioning for a role with her mother. In an interview with Hailee ...

The Oscar winner said that she had the procedure done in Tijuana months before beginning her acting career. Sally Field is opening about her abortion experience to advocate for reproductive freedom, ...

Why Sally Field’s Approach to Aging Continues to Inspire Generations Sally Field at 76: Strength, Authenticity, and a ...

1965: Sally Field, at 17, makes her television debut on ABC’s “Gidget,” playing a peppy surfing teenager. Surprising fact: The show ran for only one season, despite the huge popularity boost it gave ...

Field loved “Gidget,” and loathed the nun (“meaningless twaddle”). Airborne, she was sunk. Even her first pregnancy could not rid her of the habit. This was the ‘60s, long before prestige TV, when ...