Joanne Woodward Net Worth

Joanne Woodward's Quotes

• In 1987: "Acting is like sex. You should do it, not talk about it."
• Being married to Paul is being married to the most considerate, romantic man.
• I don't like getting myself in hot water. But suddenly I find that every minute I have to stop and think about what I'm saying. I can see what's going to happen. I'm going to have to stop giving interviews because I'm always saying the wrong thing. I don't want that to happen.
• The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.
• Who could direct you better than the person you live with? Paul knows everything there is to know about me. I wish he could just direct every movie I ever do.

Interesting Facts about Joanne Woodward

1. Mother of actress Melissa Newman, whose namesake was the character portrayed by Woodward in Het zondige dorp (1955).
2. When she was 9 years old, Joanne traveled with her mother to Atlanta for the premiere of Gejaagd door de wind (1939). During the parade, she leapt into a limousine carrying Laurence Olivier and sat in his lap as she had a crush on him after seeing Wuthering Heights (1939). Years later when the two were working on Come Back, Little Sheba (1977), Olivier claimed to remember the incident vividly.
3. Wore a handmade dress that cost about $100 to the 1957 Oscar ceremony (the year she won Best Actress for Three Faces of Eve).
4. Served as artistic director, Westport Country Playhouse, near her home in Connecticut, where her late husband starred in "Our Town" in June 2002.
5. In 1960 she was the first actress to appear at the unveiling of her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
6. Lived next door to her idol, Bette Davis, for awhile.
7. Her favorite movies are Gejaagd door de wind (1939), Wuthering Heights (1939), De bronzen godin (1940) and Een gevaarlijke vrouw (1938).
8. Her all-time favorite actress is Bette Davis and her all-time favorite actor is Laurence Olivier. Other major favorites of hers include John Garfield, Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn and Clark Gable.
9. Had to have her strip/dance scenes in The Stripper (1963) censored and approved by her husband, Paul Newman.
10. Is a graduate of the class of 1947 at Greenville Senior High School in Greenville, South Carolina.
11. Her likeness was used for the paintings of Marguerite Wyke in the Laurence Olivier/Michael Caine thriller Sleuth (1972).
12. Was briefly engaged to novelist, essayist and screenwriter Gore Vidal before breaking the engagement to pledge herself to eventual husband Paul Newman. The new couple, who remained friends with Vidal, briefly lived with him in a house in Los Angeles.
13. In the July 21, 1975, issue of People magazine, in which she shared the cover with her husband Paul Newman, Woodward claimed that her older relatives back in a small town in rural Georgia would be upset if they knew that Newman was half Jewish.
14. Played mother to real-life daughter Nell Potts in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972).
15. Mother, with Paul Newman, of daughters Nell Potts, Melissa Newman and Claire Newman.
16. Woodward told a 17-year-old Melanie Griffith on the set of The Drowning Pool (1975) that her goals were to marry a movie star (Paul Newman), have beautiful babies (she had 3), and win an Oscar (which she did in 1958). Melanie said that she adopted the same goals for herself, accomplishing only the first two, however.
17. As of 2013, she is one of six women who has received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for a performance directed by her spouse, namely for Rachel, Rachel (1968) directed by Paul Newman. The other five are Elisabeth Bergner for Escape Me Never (1935) (directed by Paul Czinner), Jean Simmons for The Happy Ending (1969) (directed by Richard Brooks), Gena Rowlands for A Woman Under the Influence (1974) & Gloria (1980) (both directed by John Cassavetes), Julie Andrews for Victor Victoria (1982) (directed by Blake Edwards), and Frances McDormand for Fargo (1996) (directed by Joel Coen). Jules Dassin also directed his future wife Melina Mercouri in a Best Actress Oscar nominated performance (Pote tin Kyriaki (1960)), but they weren't married yet at the time of the nomination.
18. Grandmother of Peter and Henry Elkind, the sons of Melissa Newman and her husband, Raphael Elkind.
19. Was pregnant by Paul Newman prior to their marriage but suffered a miscarriage four months later, in February 1958, a month after the two tied the knot.
20. Returned to work 9 months after giving birth to her daughter Nell Potts in order to begin filming From the Terrace (1960).