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Home of the Week: Joanne Woodward Tew

HometownAnnapolis.com - Found Jun. 20, 2009
... many people around me - it's just a great community,' summarized Joanne Woodward Tew, an artist and resident of Eastport. Joanne found her home...

Posted on June 20, 2009, 10:38 am

Paul Newman's Widow Joanne Woodward To Host Kids Camp Gala

Post Chronicle - Found May. 7, 2009
... the Hole in the Wall Camps for children with serious illnesses and life-threatening conditions and Joanne Woodward is keen for the cause to...

Posted on May 7, 2009, 10:11 am

Flashback Friday: 1969 in Hollywood

Los Angeles Times - Found Jul. 3, 2009
And I said, 'What if we had Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward?' And he said, 'Well, then it wouldn't be so dirty.' " Dyan Cannon, actress: "The...

Posted on July 3, 2009, 3:06 am

Emmy race for lead comedy actress

Los Angeles Times - Found Jul. 3, 2009
... victory in September, considering how well split-personality roles do at all showbiz awards (think Joanne Woodward in "Three Faces of Eve" at...

Posted on July 3, 2009, 2:15 am

Classic TV: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" Season One

Examiner.com - Found Jul. 2, 2009
Momentum stars a young Joanne Woodward as the wife of Skip Homeier, an unemployed man who is caught in an inexorable cycle of murder when he...
Self-Actualize This! - Stranger
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Stranger

Posted on July 2, 2009, 2:41 am

"Paul Newman A Life" by Shawn Levy

Denver Post - Found Jul. 1, 2009
... to Joanne Woodward was the result of an affair during his first marriage, which had produced three children. (Even his marriage to Woodward...
Jeff Newman quits TV - The Australian
Hot, Sexy, Dead - TwinCities.com
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Denver Post

Posted on July 1, 2009, 1:16 pm

A Movie A Week: THE MACKINTOSH MAN (1973)

Ain't It Cool News - Found Jun. 30, 2009
Faulkner adaptation THE LONG HOT SUMMER co-starring Angela Lansbury, Lee Remick, Orson Welles and Newman?s own (heh) wife Joanne Woodward.

Posted on June 30, 2009, 12:49 pm

Petersen Museum to screen '69 auto racing film "Winning" Tuesday

Examiner.com - Found Jun. 30, 2009
The Petersen Automotive Museum will show Winning, the 1969 racing film starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Robert Wagner, on Tuesday, June 30,

Posted on June 30, 2009, 9:00 am

Westport Country Playhouse Presents The Comedy HOW THE OTHER HALF ...

Broadway World - Found Jun. 29, 2009
Regionally, he directed many productions at Long Wharf Theatre, including 'Arsenic and Old Lace' with Joanne Woodward and 'The Road to Mecca...

Posted on June 29, 2009, 10:43 am

Farrah Fawcett could win posthumous Emmy Award

Gold Derby - Found Jun. 26, 2009
... who fought back against domestic violence in '.' While Fawcett lost that Emmy race to Oscar champ Joanne Woodward for 'Do You Remember Love...
Farrah Fawcett: Photographer Bruce McBroom remembers her iconic ... - Entertainment Weekly Online
Michael Jackson & Farrah Fawcett TV Specials Slated - EOnline.com
Hollywood in Mourning: Stars Pay Tribute to Farrah Fawcett - FOXNews.com
Farrah Fawcett, a Sex Symbol Who Aimed Higher - New York Times
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Town Hall

Posted on June 26, 2009, 10:58 am

Joanne Woodward Biography

Joanne Woodward
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Joanne Woodward

from the trailer for the 1971 film They Might Be Giants
Born Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward
February 27, 1930 (1930-02-27) (age 79)
Thomasville, Georgia, USA
Occupation Actor
Spouse(s) Paul Newman (1958–2008 his death)

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress. Woodward, is also a television and theatrical producer.

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Early life

Woodward was born in Thomasville, Georgia, daughter of Elinor Gignilliat (née Trimmier) and Wade Woodward, Jr., who at one point was vice president of publisher Charles Scribner's Sons.12 Her middle name, "Gignilliat", originates from distant Huguenot ancestry.3 She was influenced to become an actress by her mother's love of movies.3 Her mother named her after Joan Crawford, using the Southern pronunciation of the name - "Joanne".3 Attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, nine-year-old Woodward rushed out into the parade of stars and sat on the lap of Laurence Olivier, star Vivien Leigh's husband. She eventually worked with Olivier in 1979, in a television production of Come Back, Little Sheba.

Woodward lived in Thomasville until she was in the second grade. Her family relocated to Marietta, Georgia. They moved once again when she was a junior in high school, after her parents divorced.3 She graduated from Greenville High School in 1947, in Greenville, South Carolina. Woodward won many beauty contests as a teenager. She appeared in theatrical productions at Greenville High and in Greenville's Little Theatre, playing Laura Wingfield in their staging of The Glass Menagerie directed by Robert Hemphill McLane. She returned to Greenville in 1976 to play Amanda Wingfield in another Little Theatre production of The Glass Menagerie. She had also returned in 1955 for the premiere of her debut movie, Count Three And Pray, at the Paris Theatre on North Main Street.

She majored in drama at Louisiana State University, where she was an initiate of Chi Omega sorority, then headed to New York City to perform on the stage.3

Career

Early career

Woodward's first film was a post-Civil War western Count Three and Pray, in 1955. She continued to move between Hollywood and Broadway, eventually, understudying in the New York production of Picnic which featured Paul Newman.3 The two were married in 1958 after their work together in the film The Long, Hot Summer. By that time, Woodward had starred in The Three Faces of Eve, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.3

Films with Paul Newman

Newman and Woodward from the trailer for A New Kind of Love (1963)

She appeared with husband Paul Newman in ten featured films:

Both appeared in the HBO miniseries Empire Falls but had no scenes together.

She starred in five films that Newman directed or produced but in which he did not star:

Later career

Woodward has continued to act, in such films as Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams and Philadelphia (1993) in which she played the mother to Tom Hanks' character,3 and in television. She appeared in the television films Sybil, opposite Sally Field, and Crisis at Central High. She was the narrator for Martin Scorsese's screen version of The Age of Innocence.

Woodward was a co-producer and starred in a 1993 broadcast of the play Blind Spot, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie. She was executive producer of the 2003 television production of Our Town, featuring Newman as the stage manager (for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award.) She wrote the teleplay and directed a 1982 production of Shirley Jackson's story Come Along with Me, for which husband Newman provided the voice of the character Hughie under the screen name of P. L. Neuman.

Woodward is the artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse.3

She recorded a reading of singer John Mellencamp's song "The Real Life" from his box set On the Rural Route 7609.

Personal life

Joanne had been briefly engaged to author Gore Vidal prior to marrying Paul Newman. She shared a house with Vidal in Los Angeles for a short time and remained friends. Woodward married Paul Newman on January 29, 1958. They had three daughters: Elinor Teresa (1959; known on screen as Nell Potts and generally as Nell Newman), Melissa "Lissy" Stewart (1961), and Claire "Clea" Olivia (1965). She lives in Westport, Connecticut, but the Newmans were extremely private about their personal life. Newman occasionally ventured to California, but Woodward refused to go west for many years. Paul Newman died of cancer on September 26, 2008, aged 83. The couple have two grandchildren.

In 1990, she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College alongside her daughter, Clea.3

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1955 Count Three and Pray Lissy
1956 A Kiss Before Dying Dorothy ('Dorie') Kingship
1957 The Three Faces of Eve Eve White / Eve Black / Jane Academy Award for Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress
No Down Payment Leola Boone Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress
1958 The Long, Hot Summer Clara Varner
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! Grace Oglethorpe Bannerman
1959 The Sound and the Fury Quentin Compson/Narrator
The Fugitive Kind Carol Cutrere San Sebastián International Film Festival Zulueta Prize for Best Actress
1960 From the Terrace Mary St. John/Mrs. Alfred Eaton
1961 Paris Blues Lillian Corning
1963 The Stripper Lila Green
A New Kind of Love Samantha (Sam) Blake/Mimi Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1964 Signpost to Murder Molly Thomas
1966 A Big Hand for the Little Lady Mary
A Fine Madness Rhoda Shillitoe
1968 Rachel, Rachel Rachel Cameron Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
1969 Winning Elora Capua
1970 WUSA Geraldine
1971 They Might Be Giants Dr. Mildred Watson
All the Way Home Mary Follet TV
1972 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Beatrice Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1973 Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams Rita Walden BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1975 The Drowning Pool Iris Devereaux
1976 Sybil Dr. Cornelia B. Wilbur TV
Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
1977 Come Back, Little Sheba Lola Delaney TV
1978 See How She Runs Betty Quinn TV
Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
The End Jessica Lawson
A Christmas to Remember Mildred McCloud TV
1979 The Streets of L.A. Carol Schramm TV
1980 The Shadow Box Beverly TV
1981 Crisis at Central High Elizabeth Huckaby TV
Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
1982 Candida Candida TV
1984 Harry & Son Lilly
Passions Catherine Kennerly TV
1985 Do You Remember Love Barbara Wyatt-Hollis TV
Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
1986 Women - for America, for the World Short documentary
1987 The Glass Menagerie Amanda Wingfield Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female
1990 Mr. and Mrs. Bridge India Bridge Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female
1993 Foreign Affairs Vinnie Miner TV
Blind Spot Nell Harrington TV
Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
The Age of Innocence Narrator (voice)
Philadelphia Sarah Beckett
1994 Breathing Lessons Maggie Moran TV
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
1996 Even If a Hundred Ogres... Narrator (voice)
2005 Empire Falls Francine Whiting TV
Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

Awards

In 1958, Woodward won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Three Faces of Eve.3 She was nominated for Best Actress in 1969 for Rachel, Rachel, in 1974 for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, and in 1991 for Mr. and Mrs. Bridge. She was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974 for her performance in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.

Woodward won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for See How She Runs (1978) as a divorced teacher who trains for a marathon, and in Do You Remember Love? (1985) as a professor who begins to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. She has been nominated an additional five times for her roles on television.

On February 9, 1960, Joanne Woodward became the first performer to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6801 Hollywood Blvd.

References

Further reading

  • Morella, Joe; and Epstein, Edward Z. (1988). Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. New York, NY: Delacorte Press. ISBN 9780440500049. OCLC 18016049. 

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