Joanne Woodward News

Forty years after its outline was originally written, the first draft of a new novel by part-time Naples resident Donahue Silvis was finally finished.

It's puzzling to watch a good play fall out of fashion. Paul Zindel's "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" was written in 1964, opened Off Broadway in 1970, wowed the New York critics, won a Pulitzer Prize, was turned into a movie by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in 1972 and looked like a deservedly sure thing in the posterity ... (more)

Legend has it that in the process of filming the 1972 movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds , lead actress Joanne Woodward became so engrossed in her sordid part that it strained her relationships off set.

In 1973, journalist Flora Rheta Schreiber published a book about a psychiatric patient who experienced 16 separate personalities.

The long-lasting marriage of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward was one of the most famous marriages in Hollywood.