Movies by Joanne Woodward
As part of the cast:
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World of Raptors (2003)
Cast: Joanne Woodward, Morley Nelson
Soar through the sky alongside some of North America's most graceful and captivating birds of prey in this remarkable documentary. Expert Morley Nelson takes viewers through the origin…
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Nature: Pale Male (2003)
Cast: Joanne Woodward
Since 1991, when a red hawk decided to make the roof of a privileged 5th Avenue apartment building its home, New Yorkers have embraced the creature they named Pale Male. Bird watchers trained…
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My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransport (1996)
Cast: Joanne Woodward, Ruth Morley, Eddie Better …
Directed by: Melissa Hacker
Narrated by screen legend Joanne Woodward, this affecting documentary chronicles the story behind the Kindertransport, a British refugee program that saved more than 10,000 Jewish children…
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Philadelphia (1993)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
In this heartfelt drama, Philadelphia attorney Andrew Beckett launches a wrongful termination suit against the hand that feeds him when his law firm finds out about his HIV-positive status --…
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The Age of Innocence (1993)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder …
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Newland Archer, a well-bred New Yorker engaged to an appropriate match: cultured May Welland (Winona Ryder). But when her alluring cousin, Ellen Olenska (Michelle…
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
Cast: Paul Newman, Saundra McClain, Joanne Woodward …
Directed by: James Ivory
The American middle class is the target of this masterful Merchant-Ivory film based on a pair of novels by Evan S. Connell starring real-life husband and wife Paul Newman and Oscar nominee…
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The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986)
Cast: Joan Bennett, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor …
Directed by: David Heeley
Spencer Tracy was a true Hollywood legend who starred in dozens of films, including such classics as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. In this tribute…
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Harry and Son (1984)
Cast: Paul Newman, Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin …
Directed by: Paul Newman
When an accident leaves lifelong construction worker Harry Keach (Paul Newman, who also directs) jobless, he's forced to confront his son, Howard (Robby Benson), and his long list of…
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The End (1978)
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field …
Directed by: Burt Reynolds
A botched suicide attempt lands terminally ill Wendell "Sonny" Lawson (Burt Reynolds) in the psych ward, where he meets Marlon Borunki (Dom DeLuise) -- a cheerfully demented patient…
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Sybil (1976)
Cast: Brad Davis, Sally Field, Jane Hoffman …
Directed by: Daniel Petrie
Director Daniel Petrie's riveting drama stars Sally Field in an Emmy-winning turn as New York City teacher Sybil Dorsett, who has developed multiple personalities as a result of physical…
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The Drowning Pool (1975)
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa …
Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
Private eye Lew Harper is called away from his Southern California haunt to the Louisiana bayous on what he thinks is a standard blackmail case. He arrives to find it involves an old flame…
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
Cast: Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney …
Directed by: Gilbert Cates
New York City homemaker Rita (Joanne Woodward, who won a BAFTA Best Actress Award) is tortured by her own aloofness and empty lifestyle. Her unfolding emotional crisis forces her to reexamine…
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
Cast: Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach …
Directed by: Paul Newman
Directing his wife, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman crafts an unsentimental metaphorical tale based on Paul Zindel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about an embittered widow (Woodward) raising…
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They Might Be Giants (1971)
Cast: George C. Scott, Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford …
Directed by: Anthony Harvey
Retired judge Justin Playfair (George C. Scott) has a most peculiar eccentricity: He believes he's Sherlock Holmes. Betrayed by his scheming brother and placed under the care of…
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WUSA (1970)
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins …
Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
Jaded disc jockey Rheinhardt (Paul Newman) finds a berth at right-wing New Orleans station WUSA, whose hateful message he sets aside his own beliefs to spread -- but his indifference is…
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Winning (1969)
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner …
Directed by: James Goldstone
Professional race-car driver Frank Capua (Paul Newman) takes a breather from the racing circuit to focus on fatherhood after marrying a single mother (Joanne Woodward) with a 13-year-old son…
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Rachel, Rachel (1968)
Cast: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington …
Directed by: Paul Newman
After living with an overbearing mother her whole life, an unmarried 35-year-old teacher (Joanne Woodward) gets a chance at romance with a handsome suitor (James Olson) from the big city.…
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A Fine Madness (1966)
Cast: Sean Connery, Colleen Dewhurst, Joanne Woodward …
Directed by: Irvin Kershner
In this offbeat comedy, debt-ridden, down-on-his-luck discouraged poet -- and incorrigible ladies' man -- Samson Shillitoe (Sean Connery) can't seem to muster the inspiration to…
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
Cast: Charles Bickford, Henry Fonda, Robert Middleton …
Directed by: Fielder Cook
Academy Award winners Henry Fonda and Joanne Woodward star in this Western comedy about a couple in danger of losing their farm in a high-stakes poker game. Compulsive gambler Meredith lays…
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A New Kind of Love (1963)
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter …
Directed by: Melville Shavelson
Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman star in this lighthearted romantic farce about plain Jane fashion buyer Samantha Blake, who gets a dramatic makeover and is subsequently mistaken for a…
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From the Terrace (1960)
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy …
Directed by: Mark Robson
Paul Newman stars as ambitious Alfred Eaton, whose drive to climb the corporate and social ladders forces him to choose between love and his all-consuming career. Relentless in his pursuit of…
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The Fugitive Kind (1960)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Marlon Brando stars as guitar-playing drifter Val Xavier, who shuffles into a small Southern town after abandoning a life of petty crime. He soon takes up with two disparate ladies: brassy…
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The Fugitive Kind (1959)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Marlon Brando stars as guitar-playing drifter Val Xavier, who shuffles into a small Southern town after abandoning a life of petty crime. He soon takes up with two disparate ladies: brassy…
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The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa …
Directed by: Martin Ritt
Director Martin Ritt combines two William Faulkner stories into a smoldering drama starring Paul Newman as Ben Quick, a wandering handyman who arrives in Frenchman's Bend, Miss., where…
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Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
Cast: Joan Collins, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward …
Directed by: Leo McCarey
Sleepy suburb Putnam's Landing has been earmarked for a new Army missile base, and Grace Bannerman (Joanne Woodward) won't stand for it. Meanwhile, her husband, (Paul Newman), who…
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The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
Cast: Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb …
Directed by: Nunnally Johnson
In this classic drama, Joanne Woodward gives a tour-de-force performance as Eve, a woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder. Her husband (David Wayne), perplexed by her odd…
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A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith …
Directed by: Gerd Oswald
Bud Corliss (Robert Wagner) is a handsome college boy so obsessed with wealth that he'll do anything to get it. When his rich girlfriend, Dorothy (Joanne Woodward), gets pregnant and is…
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
Cast: Alfred Hitchcock, Joanne Woodward, Cloris Leachman …
Master of the macabre Alfred Hitchcock brings his creepy-droll sensibility to the small screen in four seasons -- 1955 through 1958 -- of this mystery series that features a parade of stars…
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Come Along with Me (1982)
Cast: Estelle Parsons, Sylvia Sidney, Barbara Baxley …
Directed by: Joanne Woodward
When her husband dies, Mabel Lederer (Estelle Parsons) sells all her possessions, changes her name and begins a brand-new life in a distant town, where she begins strange experiments with the…