Joanne Woodward is one of the first film stars to have an equal presence in television.
49 Facts About Joanne Woodward
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Joanne Woodward's accolades include an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Joanne Woodward is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema and the oldest living Best Actress Oscar-winner.
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Joanne Woodward is the widow of actor Paul Newman, with whom she often collaborated either as a co-star, or as an actor in films directed or produced by him.
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Joanne Woodward's career is notable not only for its unusual longevity, but for the range and depth of roles which she played.
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In 1990, Joanne Woodward earned a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College at age 60, graduating alongside her daughter Clea.
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Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward was born on February 27,1930, in Thomasville, Georgia, the daughter of Elinor and Wade Woodward, Jr.
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Joanne Woodward was influenced to become an actress by her mother's love of film.
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Joanne Woodward eventually worked with Olivier in 1977 in a television production of Come Back, Little Sheba.
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Joanne Woodward lived in Thomasville, then lived in Blakely and Thomaston before her family relocated to Marietta, Georgia, where she attended Marietta High School.
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Joanne Woodward remains a supporter of Marietta High School and of the city's Strand Theater.
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Joanne Woodward 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.
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Joanne Woodward appeared in many other TV drama shows such as Tales of Tomorrow, Goodyear Playhouse, Danger, The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse, You Are There, The Web, The Ford Television Theatre, The Elgin Hour, Robert Montgomery Presents, Armstrong Circle Theatre, The Star and the Story, Omnibus, Star Tonight, and Ponds Theater.
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Joanne Woodward's first feature film was a post-Civil War Western, Count Three and Pray.
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Joanne Woodward was signed to a long-term contract by 20th Century Fox in January 1956.
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Joanne Woodward appeared on television drama shows including Philco Playhouse, The 20th Century-Fox Hour, The United States Steel Hour, General Electric Theater, Four Star Playhouse, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Kraft Theatre, The Alcoa Hour, Studio One in Hollywood, and Climax.
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In 1957, Joanne Woodward astounded audiences and critics alike with her stellar performance as the lead in The Three Faces of Eve.
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Joanne Woodward was re-united with Ritt on another Faulkner adaptation, The Sound and the Fury, with Yul Brynner.
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In Rachel Rachel, produced and directed by Newman, Joanne Woodward played a schoolteacher hoping for love.
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In 1972, Joanne Woodward starred in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.
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Joanne Woodward then starred in the mid-life crisis drama Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, written by Stewart Stern, for which she received another Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
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Joanne Woodward was to have co-starred with Robert Shaw in Strindberg's Dance of Death at Lincoln Center in 1974, but withdrew from the production during rehearsals.
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Joanne Woodward supported Burt Reynolds in The End, and as the 70s progressed did more television drama.
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Joanne Woodward did A Christmas to Remember on TV.
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Joanne Woodward returned to Broadway for Candida, a production directed by Michael Cristofer that was filmed in 1982.
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Joanne Woodward did some screenwriting and direction at this time, for instance writing and directing a 1982 production of Shirley Jackson's story Come Along with Me; and starred in The Glass Menagerie.
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Joanne Woodward returned to TV to do "The 80 Yard Run" for Playhouse 90.
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Joanne Woodward met Paul Newman on the set of the stage drama, Picnic, in the early 1950s, and the two married on January 29,1958, after his divorce from his first wife Jacqueline Witte was finalized.
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Only two months after their wedding, Joanne Woodward won her first Academy Award.
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Joanne Woodward hoped for many years to adapt it into a television production.
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In 1993, Joanne Woodward appeared in the film Philadelphia, with Tom Hanks, and, in the same year, narrated Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence.
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Joanne Woodward did two additional television films: Foreign Affairs and Blind Spot.
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Joanne Woodward co-starred in the television film Breathing Lessons.
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Also in 1995, Joanne Woodward directed off-Broadway revivals of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy and Waiting for Lefty at the Blue Light Theater Company in New York.
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Joanne Woodward served as the artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse from 2001 to 2005.
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Joanne Woodward was executive producer of the 2003 television production of Our Town, featuring Newman as the stage manager.
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Joanne Woodward recorded a reading of singer John Mellencamp's song "The Real Life" for his box set On the Rural Route 7609.
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Joanne Woodward had the lead in Change in the Wind.
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Joanne Woodward was reported to have been engaged to author Gore Vidal before she married Paul Newman.
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However, there was no real engagement; Joanne Woodward claims that she was a beard for Vidal, who was bisexual.
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Joanne Woodward shared a house with Vidal in Los Angeles for a short time, and they remained friends.
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Joanne Woodward has three daughters with Newman: Elinor Teresa "Nell", Melissa Stewart, and Claire Olivia "Clea".
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In 1988, Newman and Joanne Woodward established the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a nonprofit residential summer camp, and year-round center named after the Wyoming mountain hideaway of the outlaws in Newman's film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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In 1990, after working toward her bachelor's degree for more than 10 years, Joanne Woodward graduated from Sarah Lawrence College along with her daughter Clea.
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Joanne Woodward has retreated from public life since she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2007.
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In 1958, Joanne Woodward won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Three Faces of Eve.
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Joanne Woodward 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.
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Joanne Woodward 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.
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Joanne Woodward has been nominated an additional five times for her roles on television.