Here's why the legendary actress couldn't stand the role that put her on the map.

The actress, 79, credited Nicholson with ending a drought in her career.

The acclaimed actress, 79, has two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes and three Emmys under her belt and starred in the likes ...

Throughout the years, two-time Oscar-winning actress Sally Field has made her distaste for her breakout, titular role in The Flying Nun known, but while opening up to People, she revealed it was ...

Sally Field says Jack Nicholson saved her Hollywood career in the early 1970s when she couldn't get auditions after her role on 'The Flying Nun': 'The word spread.' ...

Field tells PEOPLE Nicholson quietly helped her during a period in her career where she couldn’t book auditions ...

Reflecting on the period after ‘The Flying Nun’, Sally Field recalled she 'couldn't get in a room to audition' or even 'get ...

"I hated doing The Flying Nun so much," the 79-year-old told journalist Willie Geist in the preview of his upcoming Sunday Sitdown. The reason why she didn't like working on the ABC hit show? Well, it ...

Throughout the years, two-time Oscar-winning actress Sally Field has made her distaste for her breakout, titular role in The Flying Nun known, but while opening up to People, she revealed it was ...