Joanne Woodward papers, 1946-1992.

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Joanne Woodward papers, 1946-1992.

Consisting of photographs, interviews, awards, correspondence, and annotated scripts documenting Woodward's career as an actor and director on stage, screen, and television; includes magazine articles re Woodward's career as an actress; autographed script from television appearance on Carol Burnett Show; and personal copies of items awarded Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman during Kennedy Center Honors. Oversize scrapbook maintained by Woodward, ca. 1948-1961 re her early career on stage and screen, as well as others with whom she worked; various productions represented, including script and other items from the 1989 motion picture "Mr. and Mrs. Bridges"; posters for films starring Paul Newman; playbill, Feb. 1976, from Greenville, [S.C.], Little Theatre production of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" starring Woodward. Other items include papers reflecting Woodward's leadership in the National Women's Conference to Prevent Nuclear War, 1984; 7 ceremonial items (programs, invitations, tickets) Dec. 1992, consisting of Woodward's and Paul Newman's personal copies of items from the Kennedy Center Honors celebration during which they and four other performing artists were honored; and annotated script for Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain [ca. 1999]. Four notebooks, 1983-1986, containing Woodward's interviews for documentary, "American Masters-- Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre," a 1989 public television project narrated by Woodward re the New York stage, featuring interviews with Margaret Barker, Morris Charnovsky, Cheryl Crawford, Virginia Farmer, Michael Gordon, Mordecai Gorelik, Elia Kazan, Sidney Kingsley, Tony Kraber, Bobby Lewis, Sandy Meisner, Ruth Nelson, Martin Ritt, and EuniceStoddard; and scrapbook volume, 1989, of press clippings re the "Broadway's Dreamers" project.

302 items and 31 v.

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Woodward, Joanne, 1930-....

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Award-winning actress; wife of actor Paul Newman; native of Greenville, S.C. From the description of Joanne Woodward papers, 1946-1992. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 34413493 Actress; interviewee married Paul Newman. From the description of Reminiscences of Joanne Woodward : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122597540 ...

National Women's Conference to Prevent Nuclear War.

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Kazan, Elia

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American film director. From the description of Carbon copy of a typed letter : place not specified, to Darryl [Zanuck], undated [1952 Jan. or Feb.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778505876 American film producer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to [John Steinbeck], undated [1948]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 777247890 From the description of Preservation photocopy of a typed letter : place not specified, to John Stein...

Greenberg, Richard, 1958-

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Richard Greenberg, playwright. From the description of Life under water: typescript, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517252 From the description of Eastern standard: typescript, 1988. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122531705 ...

Newman, Paul, 1925-2008

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Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He won and was nominated for numerous awards, winning an Oscar for his performance in the 1986 film The Color of Money, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many others. Newman's other roles include the title characters in The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), Harper (1966) C...