CARTWHEELS & HALOS - THE BLOG!

SAG actress and singer Marneen Lynne Fields during her "Kathryn Davis - Take 2" music video shoot at the famous Marilyn Monroe hand prints at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California. Marneen plays the lead role of actress-singer, Kathryn Davis for "Kathryn Davis Take 2," a pilot of a prime time television series she's created. Title track by South African hit maker Rory Wolman of Shine Records, with Marneen Lynne Fields on lead vocals.

Welcome to the official blog page for Cartwheels & Halos -

the upcoming biography of Marneen Lynne Fields - actress, singer, composer, producer, pioneering Hollywood stunt woman and survivor.
 

Cartwheels & Halos: The True Marneen Lynne Fields Story is as much a dark and troubling tale of survival and redemption as it is a celebration of the multifaceted performance career of a child born with emphysema and an enlarged heart. A severely hearing impaired teenager who rose from the trailer park anonymity of the small town of Minot, North Dakota to climb her way up to several distinct and varied plateaus in the American entertainment world, and she continues to rise.
 

Class One advanced all-around college gymnast, Marneen Fields was discovered by Hollywood in 1976 and became a pioneering film and television stunt lady and a SAG actress. She’s gone on to become a respected multi-award winning pop-rock singer and ASCAP composer, and an aspiring scriptwriter. One of her greatest accomplishments was being coined, “Hollywood’s Original Fall Girl” in the mid 1980s and awarded a Fall Girl license plate by stunt coordinator J.P. Bill Catching and the Stuntman’s Association. To date Marneen’s talents have seen her compared to Oscar winner Sissy Spacek, Golden Globe winning pop composer Dianne Warren, Grammy Hall of Fame artist Whitney Houston, and when competing in gymnastics Marneen was able to perform some of the moves on floor exercise that were made famous by Olympic gold medal gymnast Olga Korbut.
 

Cartwheels & Halos is the telling of Marneen’s triumphant overcoming of incredible odds - including child abuse, an ankle reconstruction surgery, and years lost to a near-fatal car accident resulting in a series of life-threatening abdominal operations leaving her to live with PTSD. Marneen learned to roll with the punches to emerge from a long and lonely tunnel of horrors that left her physically and emotionally shattered and spiritually heartbroken. Yet she was able to summon her enormous reserves of strength and faith to reinvent herself as a potent force, both in the public spotlight and behind the scenes. To date she continues to create a wide and varied body of work while continuing to pursue her artistic passions with remarkable energy.
 

Filled with wonderful memories, fascinating insights and amazing anecdotes from this great period of Hollywood television and filmmaking (not to mention an abundance of rare photographs and song compositions from Marneen). Cartwheels & Halos is an engaging and revealing look at showbiz from a unique perspective, told by the person who was there to live through it all, creating a story that will entertain, inspire and move all those who take the journey.
 

Co-written by Marneen and her husband, Australian author and film historian John Harrison, Cartwheels and Halos is currently being prepared for a projected 2017 publication date, both as a hard copy trade paperback and online e-book. Bookmark this page and check back regularly for updates and sneak previews!