Biografia

During her time in Hollywood she made developed friendships with such acclaimed actors as William Powell, Irene Dunne, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Fredric March, Cheryl Walker, and Jean Arthur.

Played the same character ("Miss Totten") in two films: Bola de Fogo (1941) and A Canção Prometida (1948).

She appeared in three Best Picture Academy Award winners, the first two of which were in consecutive years: Como Era Verde o Meu Vale (1941), Rosa de Esperança (1942) and O Maior Espetáculo da Terra (1952). She also appeared in four other Best Picture nominees: Jezebel (1938), Com Um Pé no Céu (1941), Nossos Mortos Serão Vingados (1942) and De Ilusão Também se Vive (1947).

Dark-haired, slender-faced Hollywood actress generally typecast as nosy or prudish. Plenty of nurses, shop clerks and (often obnoxious) maiden spinster roles came her way. A "day-worker" (a player required for only one day's shooting), Field's plaintive, parrot-beaked, chinless face showed up in hundreds of films. She was billed so infrequently that she was still considered a relative unknown after a nearly three decade career. A few of her more visible roles in "A" quality pictures came to her via the dual role of the mother of both the prince and the pauper in Errol Flynn's O Príncipe e o Mendigo (1937); a prim foundation lady in the Gary Cooper starrer Bola de Fogo (1941); the Miniver children's piano teacher in Rosa de Esperança (1942), and the café owner in the classic film noir Fuga do Passado (1947).

An animal rights supporter.