Mrs. Paul Newman
She has appeared on television, stage, and film since the early 1950's.
Starting with Count Three and Pray, Woodward has appeared in some the best films and TV of the 20th Century- The Three Faces of Eve, No Down Payment, The Long Hot Summer, Rally Around the Flag Boys, The Stripper, The Sound and the Fury, A New Kind of Love, Rachel Rachel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Summer Wishes Winter Dreams, Sybil, The Glass Menagerie, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, and Philadelphia.
Yet, my favorite Woodward role is her impeccable narration as Edith Wharton in Martin Scorsese's beautiful The Age of Innocence. She has the voice of an angel.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 4, 2022 1:13 AM |
[quote] my favorite Woodward role is her impeccable narration as Edith Wharton in Martin Scorsese's beautiful The Age of Innocence.
Uggh, I HATED that. I had just read the glorious book before seeing the movie, and didn't need Woodward to read the book back to me. It was a near-fatal choice by Scorsese -- it drained so much of the impact of the story.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 3, 2022 6:07 PM |
R1 NO! I disagree. I thought it was one of the best things of the movie. I wish she would have narrated the audiobook.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 3, 2022 6:08 PM |
I'm fully with OP and fully against r1.
That movie would not work anywhere as well as it does without hearing Wharton's beautiful prose as read by Woodward.
"They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world... "
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 3, 2022 6:19 PM |
R3 Thank you! Her narration in the beginning helps the pace move along. When her narration gets less and less, the movie drags.
Regardless, she was gorgeous
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 3, 2022 6:32 PM |
I had no idea she was so beautiful.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 3, 2022 6:39 PM |
Her looks get knocked here a lot but I think she was gorgeous.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 3, 2022 6:39 PM |
Cue the Joanne’s a Home-wrecker Troll.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 3, 2022 6:42 PM |
We share a birthday, along with Elizabeth Taylor, who she seems in deep contrast to.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 3, 2022 7:20 PM |
R10 I find Woodward classier than Liz Taylor.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 3, 2022 8:34 PM |
I thought she was a brilliant actress when she first arrived on the scene with Three Faces of Eve, The Long Hot Summer and No Down Payment. But she eventually got worn down and became increasingly dull in the 1980s and onward. But I agree she was always quite gorgeous and unfairly compared in looks to her husband.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 3, 2022 8:51 PM |
Travilla gave her class in "From the Terrace" and "Signpost to Murder."
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 3, 2022 10:59 PM |
[quote]I had no idea she was so beautiful.
R5, back circa 1970, I was waiting to cross Third Avenue at 60th street early one evening. There were a couple of movie theaters just down the block. A very elegantly-dressed couple came walking up Third Avenue from the theaters. I was stunned by the woman's beauty, she was simply breathtaking. It was Joanne Woodward. And she was so dazzling that it took me a few moments to realize that the man at her side was Paul Newman!
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 4, 2022 12:20 AM |
I didn't teach my kids to sit in the back of the bus.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 4, 2022 12:23 AM |
Her look would have worked better anytime post 50s/60s, which unfortunately coincided with her youth. The styles we're too formal boxy and the hair in that time made her look old.
She looked good in The Fugitive Kind because they chose not to dress her in keeping with the style of the time, but like a 1920s flapper crossed with homeless derelict.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 4, 2022 12:24 AM |
My two favorite Woodward performances: Rachel, Rachel and Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 4, 2022 12:27 AM |
She just never looked like a dewy-eyed ingenue, even in her first films. In spite of her beauty, she was a character actress.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 4, 2022 12:29 AM |
Anybody with info on the fighting Newman children?
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 4, 2022 1:01 AM |
I recall another TV project she worked on, also in the late 1970s I think, where she played a woman who decided to try to run in the Boston Marathon. It was big in the news here where she was filmed practicing in and around the Boston area. Yes I think that because of her actually attractive looks, she is underrated in film history as a very good character actress in many ways.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 4, 2022 1:13 AM |
