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Inside the Actors Studio. Joanne Woodward

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  • "Inside the Actors Studio"

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  • "James Lipton hosts an evening of discussion with actor and director Joanne Woodward. Woodward speaks of her upbringing in Thomasville, Georgia, where her mother's love of the movies influenced her to become an actor; her parents' divorce when she was 13; relocating to Greenville, South Carolina, and attending Greenville High School, where she played the lead in plays and was mentored by the school's drama department head; majoring in drama at Louisiana State University, her move to New York City to pursue a career as an actress; her drama studies under Sandford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse; meeting her future husband Paul Newman; and auditioning and being accepted into the Actors Studio, under Lee Strasberg. Woodward elaborates on her role in the 1954 television episode "Interlude" of the program the Four star playhouse, and her ensuing seven-year motion picture contract with 20th Century Fox; her role as Eve in the 1957 motion picture Three faces of Eve, for which she won an Academy award; her longstanding film collaboration with Newman beginning with The long hot summer (1958); returning to motion pictures in the 1968 drama Rachel, Rachel, directed by Newman; her experiences working with and being directed by her husband; how she prepares for a role; and the differences between the two actors' approach to their acting; her role as India Bridge in the 1990 motion picture Mr. and Mrs. Bridge; earning her bachelor's degree in 1990 at Sarah Lawrence College; her association, beginning in 1995, with the Blue Light Theatre, whose mission is to enable young actors to work with older, experienced actors; becoming artistic director of the Westport Playhouse, where she produced the Broadway destined Our town, starring her husband; and lastly, combining her marriage with her career. The discussion is illustrated with clips from some of the works discussed. A brief question and answer session with Woodward and the Actors Studio master's degree students concludes the program."

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