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Joanne Woodward: Paul Newman
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Synopsis: Paul Newman made his directorial debut and Newman's wife, Joanne Woodward, stars as Rachel Cameron, a 35-year-old unmarried schoolteacher who feels as though she's wasted her life. Rachel's best friend, Calla Mackie (Estelle Parsons), invites her to attend a religious revival meeting. Here RachelRead More
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While not as prolific a film actor as her illustrious husband, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward nonetheless has etched some memorable celluloid characterizations. Outstanding in her early film career is her portrayal of the title role in The Three Faces of Eve, in which she plays a mentally disturbed young woman who has three distinct personalities: a dull Southern housewife, a sex kitten, and a well-balanced and reasonable woman. What makes this film work is the fascination and credibility of Woodward's triple-personality character, right down to the details of voices, gestures, and body movements which she adjusted for each of the women inside Eve's mind. Although this was only her third appearance in films, the tour-deforce performance established her as a star and earned her an Academy Award (a feat she accomplished a full three decades prior to Newman).
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Woodward moved to California in 1955 to take on her first major film role in the Hollywood western Count Three and Pray. She next appeared in the films A Kiss before Dying (1956) and The Three Faces of Eve (1957). In the latter, she plays a real-life (but anonymous) Georgia woman plagued by multiple personality disorder, a demanding role that required her to switch constantly between the three very different personalities that her character manifested. The film was written and directed by Georgia native Nunnally Johnson. Woodward won the Academy Award for her performance in March 1958, just two months after marrying Newman, who had himself emerged as a major star by that time. The couple eventually had three daughters, Elinor Terese ("Nell"), Melissa Stewart, and Claire Olivia.
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Woodward's first film was Count Three and Pray, in 1955. She continued to move between Hollywood and Broadway, eventually understudying in the New York production of Picnic with another young actor, Paul Newman. The two were married in 1958. By that time, Woodward had starred in The Three Faces of Eve, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She and Newman first starred together that year in The Long Hot Summer, one of many collaborations.
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Woodward has acted opposite Newman in ten films, although a number of them (e.g., "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!" 1958, "A New Kind of Love" 1963) are far from either actor's best. They ... include the offbeat and interesting "From the Terrace" (1960), "Paris Blues" (1961), and "The Drowning Pool" (1975). To date, their last co-starring venture was the Merchant Ivory production "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" (1990) that capitalized on the long-married couple's legendary standing in a sensitive study of emotional sterility. Woodward has also been directed by Newman, most typically as genteel mothers of variable levels of stability, in "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" (1972), "Harry & Son" (1984) and "The Glass Menagerie" (1987), and on TV in "The Shadow Box" (ABC, 1980). She returned to features to bring a similar grace to a small part as Tom Hanks' mother in the AIDS drama, "Philadelphia" (1993), her last on screen film role to date.
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Synopsis: This cinemadaptation of John O'Hara's From the Terrace stars Paul Newman as Alfred Eaton, an unhappily married financial adviser, while his real-life wife Joanne Woodward portrays Mary St. John, his promiscuous screen spouse. Mary's libertine behavior is a by-product of her husband's inability toRead More
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