Hollywood legend Joanne Woodward now receiving home hospice care - Radar Online

I'm a little sad that she's been suffering with dementia but I'm glad she has good care and that she will hopefully be reunited with her Paul soon.

Well, she & Paul did a great job with those kids. They have not paraded her around for clicks, but let her keep her dignity. Unlike the Bruce Willis debacle. If they were so hard up for cash wish they had put up a Go F'Me page, rather than subject him to scrutiny & pity.

I blame the Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds.

Bye bye.

Bless her. Her performance in Rachel, Rachel still haunts me. And she's done so much good for the arts.

r2 Surely they shouldn't be hard up with all the millions Bruce made in the movies?

R6. Do any of his daughters with Demi have any kind of real career or job? People like Willis and his family piss through money.

The Newman- Woodward marriage was nowhere near as idyllic as it was paraded.

Watch the HBO documentary.

Is she still making her own dresses?

R8 is any marriage "idyllic" when looked at closely?? Probably not. I wonder what the arguments between Jimmy and Rosalynn were like .... "Jimmy, how many times have told you to put the cereal back in the right cupboard...!!" "Oh, the world's going to fall apart if I put the cereal box on the left side of the sink? Really Rosalynn??"

My partner's mom had Alzheimer's - the family had resources to keep her in a nice home, with 24hr quality care. It was still so hard, she was not happy or comfortable. Alzheimer's is a horrible thing.

r10 Very true

r11 A very nasty bastard of a disease.

so, unexpected at 93 to be receiving home hospice care after ten plus years of dementia.

Is she in one of those hospices with locked doors and guards and one hour per day in the locked garden?

Oh, my. She's really aged!

[quote] hopefully be reunited with her Paul soon

Oh, to live in your fantasy world, R1

I’ve thought about her from time to time, knowing she’s had dementia for at least a decade. It’s a blessing at this point.

Just watched her and Paul in "From The Terrace" from 1960 on FXM She played a wife of a highly ambitious Newman who didn't have time for her and she whored around. They worked really well together.

r17 Let's be colder and just march them into the ovens in lieu of social security. Solyent green for everyone! Save the children! No more geriatric welfare queens on our tax dollars! stop the steal!

r14 No one suggested it was unexpected or a surprise but nevertheless given her fame it is news.

Gamma rays….in the end, it’s the gamma rays that getcha getcha. One way or another…

Apparently, she fucked Paul silly—like a Hell’s Kitchen you-know-what.

r21 It's a surprise they didn't do it sooner... except many of the old celeb homes and living centers had all but shutdown by the early 90s. The gentrification of old hollywood.. from coast to coast. And as with non famed services, we find ourselves in dire need of such facilities again... particularly outside of the dreary political landscape of what Florida has become.

She’s a fuckin’ home wrecker, and this is how they end up.

The little victims of Joanne’s harlotry - Paul’s first wife with their son who died of a drug overdose.

r26 Joannes stepdaughters speak very highly of her.

This is sad. She and Paul supported gay rights before it was common for celebs to do so

I knew she was up there in age, but was unaware of her diagnosis. I'm sorry to hear it. Especially when it's a lovely individual like Joanne Woodward. Meanwhile, Trump will live forever.

I think I'll re-watch "The Three Faces Of Eve" this weekend.

[quote] "Apparently, she fucked Paul silly—like a Hell’s Kitchen you-know-what."

Can you blame her?

Ah, the Joanne Woodward homewrecker troll never ceases.

Aren’t their daughters not on speaking terms because they disagree about where the money from the Newman food products should go?

[quote]R31 Ah, the Joanne Woodward homewrecker troll never ceases.

What would YOU call her??

R30. Paul apparently was quite un adventurous with sex j til he met her. She opened his eyes to good sex, he wrote in so many words.

That’s how she wooed him away from his wife.

The old ankles-behind-the-head trick.

Coincidental that she won an Emmy about Alzheimer's Disease called Do You Remember Love? and then she got it herself.

Great actress.

I always found her boring, both as an actress and as a personality.

Does she have dementia or Alzheimers, because yes, there is a difference.

My mom had poor circulation, wasn't getting enough blood flow to her brain, which caused dementia. She still recignized her children, could tell her twin grandchildren apart and still recognized her friends. She also drove the wrong way into a jug handle trying to make a turn, told us the same stories repeatedly and thought her parents were still alive (they had been dead for 55+ years)

While dementia was tough, it was not the horror show that is alzheimers

R38 nevermind I see the story says alzheimers

Robert Wagner pushed Joanne Woodward off the roof, just as surely he killed Natalie Wood... :-/

^^ A Kiss Before Dying ^^

R41, It was remade in 1991 with Matt Dillon and Sean Young.

R42 One of the rare cases of a re-make being as good an the original.

R43, And Matt bared his ass in the remake.

r44 Yummy! Love Matt Dillon

It has gone very quiet on the Joanne Woodward front.

#HomewreckersNeverWin

r46 Her stepdaughters actually speak well of her.

I sometimes wonder why Hitchcock never cast her in anything; I think she would have been a good Hitchcock blonde. Psycho, or Marnie, for ex.

Joanne would have been far more interesting in MARNIE than that Tippy person.

I didn't realize she was still alive

I loved her in The Long, Hot Summer.

Her skin looks amazing. I wonder if she slept on her back, which has been linked to Alzheimer's

R39. It is difficult, sometimes impossible, to do a definitive Alzheimer’s diagnosis pre-mortem, though more sophisticated diagnostic approaches have been developed. Neurologists make their best inference based on symptoms. My husband, who has definite MCI, cannot have an MRI because he has a pacemaker/defibrillator; a CT scan is not as fine a measure. The treatment plan doesn’t seem much different anyway (none of it really effective, though our doctor at Rochester said new, better treatments will breakthrough in the next year). My husband also drove the wrong way on a circular road—most dramatic symptom it was not just normal aging. His physical health is reasonably good (other than the cardiac issues—a heart attack fifteen years ago), so (I hope) he’s with me for some years and he’s not at all unhappy yet. He’s almost 85 and retired as a prof at an Ivy. I’m close to 66 and retired before he started showing symptoms (I took a phased plan at 61). My plan is to keep him home and bring in skilled nursing care if necessary. I spend about 20-24 at home. Not how we planned our retirement, but you adapt or perish.

Joannes hospice care is lasting almost as long as Jimmy Carter's.

R49, Excuse me?

R53, you're a good man.

Her attempts at comedy were embarrassing.

That’s sad… to forget boiking Paul Newman.

R57, I thought she was good as Eunice's trashy friend, Midge Gibson, who threatened to punch Thelma Harper in the nose.

Just like Jimmy Carter, Joanne Woodward has according to the article now been in home hospice for over a year.

R1, how is she going to be reunited with Paul? He’s dead.

She was diagnosed way back in 2007, meaning she was probably showing symptoms well before then.

Gdamn homewrecker.

Paul was married, with three small children, when they met. But that didn’t keep Woodward from opening her peroxided snatch backstage.

R1 is so full of sap she can blow her nose into a pancake.

Hope she croaks soon so they can spill all the shit about how much cock her "devoted" hubby Paul sucked.

She is utterly brilliant in this heartbreaking scene from Mr. and Mrs. Bridge. The truth in this scene is almost too painful. Kills me.

R16 R52 The photo in the OP article was taken almost 15 years ago. I think a recent photo of her would show her appearance to be quite different.

The link below is another photo taken at the same event and states it was taken on October 21, 2010.

R64, why are you blaming her and not him?

R32 Paul Newman and his family were betrayed by Robert Forrester and Brian Murphy and pushed out of having any say in the running of Newman's Own and Nell's organic food line, after having Paul sign documents just two months before his death that made both Forrester and Murphy members of the Foundation itself. His will was was re-written four months before his death with a new attorney, while his health and memory were deteriorating. It changed substantially from what the family was told to expect.

This 2015 Vanity Fair article reveals the deeply unsettling details of the apparent swindle. It still makes me angry thinking about this.

Situations like that happen all the time in the richest families, I can't tell you how many times I had to step in and remind the families that their relatives are not DEAD yet& you can't spend their $$$$. Now, you have to pay it back with interest.

I hosted "Wealthy Families problems seminars" in the church hall in La Jolla this summer to explain what they need to do to protect their assets.

R71 Did you read the article? The Newmans weren't expecting money for their own wants and needs. That was clearly stated in the article. It was their ability to use money set aside for them to give to charitable organizations of their choice and a place on the board of directors of Newman's Own, originally intended for the family, whuch was taken from them.

^^^I read the article when it first came out& again when you posted it.^^

I posted about family situations I have personally dealt with over the years, not the Neuman situation.

[quote] Robert Wagner pushed Joanne Woodward off the roof,

He must be a Muslim, then, and she must be a lesbian.

Wasn't Paul a closeted homosexual who fucked Steve McQueen, or fucked him over, I forget, and Rick and Marlon. When are those Roddy McDowell files going to be released?

Rick=Rock

Paul cheated on her as much and as often as he could and not always with other women.

It’s nice to have a fantasy, R77.

R49, are you being facetious? Hedren with her beauty and spooked, sad eyes was extraordinary in Marnie. She nailed that role in a way Woodward never could have.

Hedren's scenes with Louise Latham ("Why don't you love me, Mama? I always wondered why you didn't") and with Sean Connery on the honeymoon boat were perceptive and played with real feeling.

Woodward is meh, at best, and was always a Plain Jane.

[quote]Just watched her and Paul in "From The Terrace" from 1960 on FXM She played a wife of a highly ambitious Newman who didn't have time for her and she whored around. They worked really well together.

In GOWNS BY TRAVILLA!

R73 Philly Old Whore I didn't know you were a paralegal.

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams is another low-key gem. She received a well-deserved oscar nomination as did Sylvia Sydney in a brief but memorable supporting role.

Joanne would have killed in that lane brain movie Marnie on any given day, R79. Just because you’re jealous Newman picked her has nothing to do with her depth as an actor.

To R81-a paralegal with a MBA-JD!!

Dang and Wharton as well. What no LLM? Interesting.

Legend? Joanne Woodward? Can you really be a legend when you’ve never been a star or box office favorite, never lived up to the early Oscar you received, was extraordinarily plain and totally lacking in sex appeal, especially compared to your gorgeous husband who cheated on you constantly with both women and men?

I think not.

r26 Based on the photo, their son was a little too young to be dabbling in hard drugs.

Dear, R86, Joanne Woodward can be classified a legend because she’s a movie star who lived to be 95 (so far). Now mix your Metamucil.

To R85-I went to school in the early 80s. The only computer system at Northwestern& Wharton was a "GEAC system" that was being scanned in at all the libraries in the university. Plus, they had the giant computers in a room in the basement. Both schools had computers learning labs so students could learn about them.

R70 the bastards even cut off his granddaughter's arm!

But she’s not a movie, star, R88, that was my point, she never carried a movie to box office success. Much of her film career was spent opposite her husband, who really was a star. If not for him she wouldn’t have been in most of the films she did in her film career. And lots of their films together were flops.

So her advanced age and the fact that she was married to a real movie star is enough to make her a legend?

Again. I think not.

Paul Newman never had gay sex and I'm the dame who can prove it.

R77 frau for brains

R91 = not thinking

She was an excellent a actress.

She may have been an excellent actress but her boring voice put me to sleep even when Trazodone couldn't. I second R91 in that she was not a star. Stars glow, she didn't. Stars have many hits, she did not. Stars are in demand, nobody except her husband hired her.

Three Oscar nominations, one win. How many did Newman have?

Paul Newman was nominated for an Oscar ten times – nine competitive nominations for acting and one Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He was nominated seven times for Best Actor before winning the award for The Color of Money in 1987. Oops, R97.

List em, R98

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

The Hustler (1961)

Hud (1963)

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Absence of Malice (1981)

The Verdict (1982)

The Color of Money (1986) - Winner

Nobody's Fool (1994)

Road to Perdition (2002)

So there, R99.

Not doubting, dear, R100, just curious. Why are Newman worshipers so defensive? Notice I didn’t demand a link.

Granted, Woodward's star isn't the magnitude of Newman's, but she still had a solid career somewhere between the levels of Jane Alexander and Ellen Burstyn, in that same vein of solid, reliable performances. Plus she ranked among the top 25 box-office stars from the late 50s through the late 60s. Two of her Oscar nominations and seven of her Emmy nominations had nothing to do with Newman.

The wanted her for Cleopatra at Fox in the 50s. Now that would have been an even bigger clunker than the final film.

I think it was called “see how she runs.” In the 1970s she played a divorced school teacher who was sort of a frump. I don’t remember why - she set a goal to run the Boston Marathon. Her teen daughters were “eye rollers” but helped her train. It was a really good movie.

R97 Actually, Woodward had four nominations—like Julie Christie and Diane Keaton, one nomination in each of four decades—

1950’s—The Three Faces of Eve (win)

1960’s—Rachel, Rachel

1970’s—Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

1990’s—Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

I could never stand her. Plain and boring . I agree with the poster who said she'd have had a b list career without Paul. I dont wish her ill but I just dont care .

R86 Granted she’s not a legend on the Davis, Hepburn, Streep level, but not living up to her Oscar is just not true. She went on to receive three more Oscar nominations along with multiple Emmy nominations and three wins. Her personal life with Newman doesn’t have anything to do with her professional life, where she was a highly respected character actress, and did just fine in.

R86 is Jackie Witte posting from the grave.

The final days and hospice care have been going on since 2023?

Sad final years.

One good thing she did was insist that Sally Field be allowed to keep her job in the miniseries SYBIL (1976)

After Field had been cast, there were then some rumblings that the network didn’t want to use her. Woodward said Field was the best choice for the part and if Field wasn’t used, then she herself was quitting.

I’ve been thinking about her a lot because I’m reading a Paul Newman bio And eating a salad with his dressing at the very moment!

R106, you keep posting your sustain over and over. It’s tedious.

She wasn't as flashy actress. But she was excellent and clearly took pride in the craft. At her best she was always a treat as in Man on the Moon Marigolds and Mrs. and Mrs. Bridge

My favorite JW performance is in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams. Rachel Rachel is a close second.

Mine is Gamma Rays

I found the book Rachel Rachel at an antique store last year and still haven’t read it. I like the movie, but it’s very 1960s visually. A Best Picture nomination? Ha!

I love Woodward. Classy and talented. It is a bit bothersome that she could never fully drop the Georgia from her accent when she playing a northerner in things like Rachel or Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams however.

I should finish the HBO series, but it’s so damn long!

R107, I agree that they don’t know what they’re talking about.

She was nominated after her win three times and worked in quality projects through the 90s.

A quiet career is not failing. Her looks and who she was married to shouldn’t even have come into it. I think they’re taking shots because Paul Newman didn’t marry someone they deem appropriate.

I love that Joanne has an “ordinary person” quality. You queens want flash and glam, she’s real and familiar. And as your neighbor, Joanne is a very attractive woman. She doesn’t overplay, she stays in the moment, she’s very natural. This may be foreign to most of you to appreciate.

She gets points for being in that TV movie about AIDS.

Some of y’all are just haters because she got to sleep with Paul.

It's very strange. The Effects of Gamma Rays... is on YouTube from a 1966 version of the off-Broadway play from WNET.

While much of the dialogue is the same as the movie, and Judith Lowry plays the elderly lady in both, they have very different. Eileen Heckert and Joanne don't seem to be playing the same person at all.

Love her and hope she's not suffering.

One of the worst movies I have ever seen. Just insultingly awful:

The Blank Faces of Eve.

Recommended fun camp fest x1000 - The Fugitive Kind 1959. Written by Tennessee Williams for Anna Magnani, also starring Brando and Joanne Woodward, directed by Sidney Lumet. EVERYONE chews the scenery mercilessly, including Joanne oddly.. Everything is terrible, wonderful, creepy, unforgettable.