Joanne Woodward Filmography

Nature: Pale Male

Actors: Joanne Woodward

Synopsis: Even in a city whose population serves as the textbook definition of "eclectic," no one could have foreseen the remarkable resident that chose New York City as a new home back in 1991. Never in recorded history had a red-tailed hawk chosen to settle in the Big Apple, and when the affectionately Read More

The John Garfield Story

Actors: Julie Garfield

Synopsis: According to this made-for-cable documentary, stage and film star John Garfield set the standard for naturalistic acting that blazed the trail for such future "method" types as Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro. Lovingly narrated by Garfield's actress daughter, Julie Garfield, the film details the Read More

The Education of Gore Vidal

Actors: Anne Jackson, Gore Vidal, Paul Newman, Tim Robbins, Sarah Sarandon, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Always his own best audience, celebrated author, social critic, and self-described political "nag" Gore Vidal also proves the ideal master of ceremonies (via film clips from an extended interview) for this biographical documentary. From the vantage point of his villa in Ravello, Italy, Vidal Read More

Man for All Stages: The Life and Times of Christopher Plummer

Actors: Christopher Plummer

A Woman's Heart

Actors: Joanne Woodward

Synopsis: Women have always been at special risk of heart disease. Studies have shown a link between the presence of heart disease in women who also have a high level of female hormones in their system due to birth control pills. A Woman's Heart explores the occurrence of heart disease in women and what we Read More

My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransport

Synopsis: During WW II, between 1938 and 1939, Allied forces launched a courageous rescue mission to save 10,000 children from certain death in the concentration camps. These children were of Jewish or Gypsy descent or were otherwise marked as undesirable. This documentary looks at what happened to these Read More

Breathing Lessons

Synopsis: In this drama based on Anne Tyler's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the long marriage of a couple en route to a funeral is seen from the viewpoint of those they encounter during the trip. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Women of Substance

Actors: Joanne Woodward

Blind Spot

Crew: Co-producer

Synopsis: A tough congresswoman tries to keep her family together after her son-in-law dies in a car crash. This Emmy-nominated made-for-television drama follows her efforts and her reaction when she learns that drugs were involved. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Philadelphia

Actors: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas, Ron Vawter, Joanne Woodward

Synopsis: At the time of its release, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political, and social issues of AIDS. Tom Hanks, in his first Academy Award-winning performance, plays Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer at a stodgy Philadelphia law firm. The Read More

Foreign Affairs

Actors: Joanne Woodward, Brian Dennehy, Eric Stoltz, Stephanie Beacham, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: Foreign Affairs was adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alison Lurie. Joanne Woodward plays Vinnie Miner, a college professor on sabbatical in England. While still on the plane, Vinnie makes the acquaintance of hard-hat tourist Chuck Mumpson (Brian Dennehy). Though she isn't too fond Read More

The Age of Innocence

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Miriam Margolyes, Richard E. Grant, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: In Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, romance between an upper-class gentleman and an ostracized lady is doomed by 19th century New York society. Shortly after his engagement to blandly genteel May Welland (Winona Ryder), Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is reacquainted Read More

Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Kyra Sedgwick, Blythe Danner, Margaret Welsh, Simon Callow, Robert Sean Leonard

Synopsis: Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (played by real-life "Mr. and Mrs." Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward) are well-to-do residents of Kansas City in the 1940s. So far as the Bridges are concerned, however, it's the 1920s, with Mr. Bridge treating his wife like property, regarding his grown children as if they're Read More

Hollywood Remembers [Video Series]

Synopsis: A collection of videos on various Hollywood stars and their lives. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Fred Astaire Learn to Dance [Video Series]

Synopsis: A dance instruction series from the Fred Astaire Studios, with instructors Lee and Peggy Santos. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Glass Menagerie

Actors: Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton

Synopsis: Paul Newman directed this moving adaptation of Tennessee Williams' classic play The Glass Menagerie. Joanne Woodward stars as aging Southern belle Amanda Wingfield, whose domineering parenting has driven her shy, timid daughter Laura (Karen Allen) inward and has made her adventure-hungry son Tom Read More

A Thousand Cranes

The Spencer Tracy Legacy

Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory

Synopsis: This 1986 video directed by Ken Harrison is part of PBS's American Masterworks series. The program presents a general overview of the life of 20th century American author Katherine Anne Porter, a complex and deeply psychological writer. It includes interviews with Porter contemporaries Robert Penn Read More

Do You Remember Love?

Actors: Richard Kiley, Joanne Woodward

Synopsis: Given the credibility of the story and the sincerity of the players, it is surprising to learn that the made-for-TV Do You Remember Love? is not based on a true story. Joanne Woodward stars as a brilliant college professor and poet, struck down in her prime by Alzheimer's disease. Her husband Richard Kiley Read More

Come Along with Me

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Actress Joanne Woodward made her (surprisingly unheralded) directorial debut with Come Along With Me. Estelle Parsons stars as a freewheeling woman who decides to start over completely when her husband dies. Before leaving town, she sells everything she owns and burns all her bridges behind her. Parsons Read More

Harry and Son

Actors: Paul Newman, Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin, Wilford Brimley, Judith Ivey

Synopsis: Harry (Paul Newman), a middle-aged hardhat, has trouble communicating with his teenaged son Howard (Robby Benson). While Harry wants Howard to find a bread-and-butter job, the sensitive boy would rather pursue a writing career. Howard tries his best to please his dad, but ultimately realizes that Read More

Passions

Synopsis: When wealthy businessman Richard Kennerly (Richard Crenna) dies, he leaves behind a great many unresolved issues. More specifically, he leaves behind a wife named Catherine (Joanne Woodward) a mistress named Nina (Lindsay Wagner)--and the children from both liasons. Upon learning of Nina's Read More

Crisis at Central High

Synopsis: Crisis at Central High is the sort of film that fully justifies the existence of made-for-TV movies. This superior effort is a dramatization of the court-ordered integration of Little Rock, Arkansas' Central High School in 1957. With threats of violence mounting (and some carried out), it becomes Read More

The Shadow Box

Synopsis: Advertised as "Paul Newman's First Film for Television," Shadow Box was more specifically the first TV movie to be directed by Newman. Moving in a slow, deliberate fashion, the film concerns three terminally ill people. Their stories intertwine as the unfortunate spend their last days with their Read More

The Streets of L.A.

Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama, an older woman (Joanne Woodward), who fights to get by in her new career as a real estate agent, gets quiet revenge upon the street punks who slashed the tires of her car. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The End

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Strother Martin, David Steinberg

Synopsis: At the beginning of The End, Wendell Sonny Lawson (Burt Reynolds) is informed by his doctor that he's dying from "the same thing Ali MacGraw had in Love Story." Lawson's first reaction is to cry uncontrollably, much to the discomfort of his fellow elevator passengers. He heads to a nearby church Read More

See How She Runs

Actors: Lissy Newman, Joanne Woodward

Synopsis: The made-for-television See How She Runs is the story of a 40-year-old divorced teacher (Joanne Woodward) whose life is changed by her decision to enter the Boston Marathon. Woodward won an Emmy for her performance, while her daughter Lissy Newman made her acting debut in the film. ~ Stephen Read More

A Christmas to Remember

Synopsis: As warm as winter's fire and sentimental as the sixth glass of wassail, this heart-tugging made-for-television holiday drama tells the Depression-era story of a gruff Minnesota grandfather and his wife who must take in their teenage grandson for Christmas. A city kid, the youth finds it difficult Read More

Come Back, Little Sheba

Actors: Joanne Woodward, Laurence Olivier, Carrie Fisher, Nicholas Campbell

Synopsis: Burt Lancaster was too young to play alcoholic, disillusioned Doc Delaney in the 1952 film version of William Inge's Come Back Little Sheba. At age 70, Laurence Olivier was too old for the part, yet Olivier's performance is far more persuasive than Lancaster's in this 1977 TV-movie remkae of Read More

Sybil

Actors: Sally Field, Joanne Woodward, Martine Bartlett, William Prince, Jane Hoffman

Synopsis: The multiple award-winning made-for-TV movie Sybil was based on the book by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Sally Field won an Emmy for her portrayal of the title character, a substitute teacher in New York who has developed multiple personality disorder. As a coping mechanism to deal with the abuse she Read More

The Drowning Pool

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: Paul Newman returns as private detective Lew Harper is this tale of blackmail and murder based on a novel by Ross MacDonald. Iris Devereaux (Joanne Woodward), the wife of a wealthy oilman from Louisiana, hires Harper after she receives a threatening letter. A blackmailer is threatening to tell Read More

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

Actors: Grant Code, Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney, Dori Brenner, Teresa Hughes

Synopsis: American GI Harry Walden (Martin Balsam) emerged from a harrowing experience in WWII to find himself living an outwardly-happy but inwardly-empty and tedious existence in the post-war U.S. He is an eye doctor, successful in his work, but unfulfilled spiritually and emotionally. He and his wife Read More

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Actors: Ellen Dano, Dee Victor, Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach, Richard Venture

Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paul Zindel, this is a joint effort of husband and wife team Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman. Produced and directed by Newman, Woodward portrays the eccentric young widow who is raising her two disparate daughters in an atmosphere of bitterness, hatred Read More

All the Way Home

They Might Be Giants

Actors: Staats Cotsworth, George C. Scott, Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford, Lester Rawlins, Rue McClanahan

Synopsis: George C. Scott stars as Justin Playfair, a retired, widowed judge who labors under the delusion that he's Sherlock Holmes. Feigning concern, Playfair's greedy brother Blevins (Lester Rawlins) hires psychologist Dr. Mildred Watson (Joanne Woodward) to certify that Justin is insane--and in so doing Read More

WUSA

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins, Laurence Harvey, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: Paul Newman served as co-producer of this allegorical drama and stars as Rheinhardt, a opportunistic drifter who ends up in New Orleans and hits up his old friend Farley (Laurence Harvey), a con man-turned-phony preacher, for a job. Farley is able to get Rheinhardt hired on as an announcer at a Read More

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Synopsis: Having tackled every known film subject in his long career, from musicals to murder mysteries, Sidney Lumet tries his hand at documentary in King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis. Lumet co-directed and co-produced the film with another Hollywood luminary, Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Beyond Read More

Winning

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner, Richard Thomas, David Sheiner

Synopsis: Successful racecar driver Capua (Paul Newman) falls in love with Elora (Joanne Woodward). The two marry and settle down with Elora's 13-year-old son Charley (Richard Thomas). The honeymoon is short-lived as Capua must spend his time away from home on the racing circuit. Soon the racer's luck Read More

Rachel, Rachel

Actors: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons, Donald Moffat

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 Rachel Read More

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Actors: Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Jr., Charles Bickford, Burgess Meredith, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ford, Chester Conklin, Mae Clarke

Synopsis: The action in A Big Hand for the Little Lady centers around a high-stake poker game. The participants include some of the wealthiest men in the West (among them Jason Robards Jr., Kevin McCarthy, Charles Bickford and Paul Ford). Into this rarefied atmosphere trudges impoverished farmer Henry Read More

A Fine Madness

Actors: Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg, Patrick O'Neal, Colleen Dewhurst

Synopsis: Sean Connery attempted to make a clean break from his "James Bond" image in the boisterous comedy A Fine Madness. Connery plays Samson Shillitoe, a Brendan Behan-like poet with a mile-wide misogynistic streak. Try as he might to complete his latest masterpiece, Shillitoe is constantly interrupted Read More

Signpost to Murder

Actors: Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare, Alan Napier, Joyce Worsley

Synopsis: In this suspenseful thriller, a man is sentenced to ten years in a mental institution for the criminally insane after murdering his wife. In the hospital, the man's doctor slyly tells him about an esoteric law that will allow the patient a new trial if he can escape and stay out of the hospital Read More

A New Kind of Love

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter, Eva Gabor, George Tobias

Synopsis: A man falls for an exotic "bad girl," unaware he's already met the nice girl lurking beneath the surface, in this romantic comedy. Samantha Blake (Joanne Woodward) works for a large department store in New York City as a sort of industrial spy; while ostensively a buyer, Blake's greatest Read More

The Stripper

Actors: Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor, Carol Lynley, Robert Webber

Synopsis: This routine tale of an aspiring actress on the verge of a sharp decline is directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and features Joanne Woodward in a skillful and engaging portrayal of Lila, the would-be thespian. The setting is a small town in the plains state of Kansas where Lila finds herself Read More

Paris Blues

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong, Diahann Carroll

Synopsis: The second film of director Martin Ritt with both Paul Newmanand Sidney Poitier, it's set in a city that has long been a haven for black musicians eager to escape the racism of the U.S. Newman is Ram Bowen, a trombone player who makes his living in a jazz group, which also includes tenor man Eddie Read More

From the Terrace

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Ina Balin, Leon Ames

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 to Read More

The Fugitive Kind

Actors: Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Fugitive Kind began life as Battle of Angels, a never-produced 1939 play by a young Tennessee Williams. Nearly 20 years later, Williams refined this rough-hewn theatrical effort into Orpheus Descending, which enjoyed a respectable Broadway run. The renamed film version stars Marlon Brando as Read More

The Sound and the Fury

Actors: Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton, Stuart Whitman, Ethel Waters

Synopsis: In this filmed adaptation of William Faulkner's seminal work, Yul Brynner stars as Jason Compson, the oldest son of a once-proud Southern family rife with inner turmoil. His promiscuous sister, Caddy (Margaret Leighton), has suddenly rolled back into town with an illegitimate daughter called Read More

Playhouse 90: The 80 Yard Run

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Darryl Hickman, Robert Simon, Coach Red Sanders

Synopsis: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward made a rare joint TV appearance in this live Playhouse 90 broadcast of 1958. Newman is cast as former college football star Christian Darling, whose legendary 80-yard run in the mid-1920s won him fame, adulation, a beautiful wife named Louise (Joanne Woodward), a Read More

Rally 'round the Flag, Boys!

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, Jack Carson, Dwayne Hickman, Joseph Holland

Synopsis: Director Leo McCarey was clearly past his prime when he made this screen version of Max Shulman's comic novel Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys; still, the film was a success, no small thanks to the star power of real-life husband and wife Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The scene is Putnam's Landing Read More

The Long, Hot Summer

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick

Synopsis: While often regarded as one of America's greatest novelists, William Faulkner produced work that did not always translate well to the screen; it's ironically appropriate that this movie, based on several of Faulkner's short stories, is often regarded as one of the best films based on his work Read More

The Three Faces of Eve

Actors: Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb, Edwin Jerome, Alena Murray

Synopsis: When Alistair Cooke shows up to introduce Three Faces of Eve, we know that the fact-based story will bear more than a little fidelity to truth. Joanne Woodward won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eve, a young Georgia housewife suffering from multiple personalities. Eve's husband (David Read More

No Down Payment

Actors: Joanne Woodward, Tony Randall, Jeffrey Hunter, Sheree North, Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: A handful of suburban couples discover that emotional turmoil lurks behind the placid exterior of the planned community of Sunrise Hills in this drama based on the novel by John McPartland. David and Jean Martin (Jeffrey Hunter and Patricia Owens) find their relationship starting to crumble after Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Momentum

Synopsis: When he takes a voluntary pay cut to help out his financially strapped boss, Dick Paine (Skip Homeier) must face the wrath of his nagging wife Beth (played by no less than Joanne Woodward). Demanding that Dick stand up for his rights, Beth tells him to go back to the office and confront his Read More

A Kiss Before Dying

Actors: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Joanne Woodward, Virginia Leith, Robert Quarry, Howard Petrie, Mary Astor, George Macready

Synopsis: Budd Corliss (Robert Wagner) is an ambitious, poor boy from the wrong-side-of-the-tracks who murders his girlfriend Dorothy (Joanne Woodward) -- making the death look like a suicide -- when her pregnancy eliminates his chances of being accepted by her wealthy family. Her sister Ellen (Virginia Leith Read More

Back Bay Romance

Count Three and Pray

Actors: Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward, Philip Carey, Raymond Burr, Allison Hayes

Synopsis: This laid-back western manages to deliver a full quota of action, an agreeable dash of sentiment, and quite a few three-dimensional characterizations. Van Heflin plays Luke Fargo, a Civil War veteran who returns to his Southern homeland to find his house destroyed, his crops burned out, and the Read More

What Do I Tell My Children?

Actors: Joanne Woodward, Earl Grollman, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Sandra Fox, Ann Kliman

Synopsis: This is an award-winning and best-selling video dealing with the difficult issue of understanding how children grieve. This program is considered the foremost video available for those dealing with children and grief. Narrated by Joanne Woodward, the program inspires parents and children to share Read More