who was Joan Woodward?

Question

what had she contributed to organisation and management theory

Answer 1

Joan Woodward was a professor.

Joan Woodward's work investigating the role of technology as a mediator between organizational structure and performance was one of the most influential research projects conducted in the field of organization studies and foreshadowed the central position of technology as an area of study in organization theory. In fact, Charles Perrow has argued that "the most ambitious and stimulating comparative study using technology as an independent variable is Joan Woodward's survey of 100 industrial organizations". The originality and importance of her work is clear in the number of books and articles that continue to use her work right up to the present.
Professor Woodward died in 1971 at the age of 54. She was only the second woman professor at Imperial College London where she was appointed Professor of Industrial Sociology in 1970. She had joined the Production Engineering and Management Section of Imperial College London in 1958 and much of her most important work was published during this period. Prior to that she had spent a number of years at the South East Essex College of Technology where much of the empirical work that underlies her theoretical advancements was conducted.

Answer 2

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an Emmy Award and Academy Award-winning American actress. Woodward, who is married to Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer.

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. She was the first performer to receive a star on the Walk of Fame. It was laid on February 9, 1960.

The very briefly glimpsed portrait of the unseen character Marguerite Wyke in the 1972 film Sleuth (credited to the imaginary actress Eve Channing; see [1]) is actually of Woodward.

In Three Faces of Eve she portrays a character suffering from multiple personality disorder. In Sybil, she portrays a character treating a persona with multiple personality disorder. Both are among her most famous roles.

Answer 3

Good to see that the Cut & Paste function is still operational out here.
All I wanted to say is she's a great actress and has been married to Paul Newman for many years.

Edit: My apologies... I didn't look carefully enough. I'm speaking of Joanne Woodward. The person below me "nailed" it correctly.

Answer 4

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an Emmy Award and Academy Award-winning American actress. Woodward, who is married to Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer.

Woodward was born in Thomasville, Georgia, and was influenced to become an actress by her mother's love of movies. Her mother wanted to name her after Joan Crawford, but then her parents felt that the name "Joanne" was more Southern. Attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, nine-year-old Joanne rushed out into the parade of stars and sat on the lap of Laurence Olivier, star Vivien Leigh's husband. She eventually worked with Olivier in 1979, in a television production of Come Back, Little Sheba.
Woodward won many beauty contests as a teenager. She majored in drama at Louisiana State University, then headed to New York City to perform on the stage.

Woodward's first film was a post-Civil War western Count Three and Pray, in 1955. She continued to move between Hollywood and Broadway, eventually, understudying in the New York production of Picnic which featured Paul Newman. The two were married in 1958. By that time, Woodward had starred in The Three Faces of Eve, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

She appeared with her husband, Paul Newman in the featured films:

The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
From the Terrace (1960)
Paris Blues (1961)
A New Kind of Love (1963) - a lightweight romantic comedy that she persuaded Newman to make.
Winning (1969)
WUSA (1970)
The Drowning Pool (1975)
Harry & Son (1984) - which Newman also directed
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990)
They both also appeared in the HBO miniseries Empire Falls but did not have any scenes together.

She starred in four films that Newman directed but did not star in:

Rachel, Rachel (1968)
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - which also starred their daughter, Nell Potts.
The Shadow Box (1980) - a television movie
The Glass Menagerie (1987)

Woodward has continued to act on stage, films, and television in such films as Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams and Philadelphia (1993) in which she played the mother to Tom Hanks' character. She also appeared in the television films Sybil opposite Sally Field and Crisis at Central High. She was the narrator for Martin Scorsese's screen version of The Age of Innocence.


In 1990, she was graduated from Sarah Lawrence College alongside her daughter, Clea. She and Newman live in Westport, Connecticut but are extremely private about their personal lives. Woodward is currently artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse.

Newman will occasionally venture to California, but Woodward has refused to go West for many years.

1991 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
1974 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1969 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Rachel, Rachel
1958 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Three Faces of Eve
She won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for See How She Runs (1978) as a divorced teacher who trains for a marathon, and in the same category again for Do You Remember Love? (1985) as a professor who begins to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. She has been nominated an additional five times for her acting roles on television.

Other works
TV commercial for Environmental Defense Fund (1998)

Print ad for Environmental Defense Fund's "Keep Recycling Working" campaign (2000)