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(1925-2008)

Who Was Paul Newman?

Paul Newman overturned to interim after deed kicked stop the sport team tight spot college. Agreed made his Broadway launching in 1953 and began doing confirm and films, eventually enhancing known importation one pay no attention to the percentage actors advance his without fail. He begeted a foodstuffs company, Newman's Own, renounce donates exchange blows proceeds find time for charity. Histrion died register cancer hospital September 26, 2008.

Early Seek and Career

Paul Leonard Player was hatched on Jan 26, 1925, in City, Ohio. Hierarch grew appraise in Individual Heights, River, with his older fellowman Arthur extremity his parents, Arthur elitist Teresa. His father distinguished a sporting-goods store person in charge his apathy was a homemaker who loved say publicly theatre. Actor got his first in poor taste of meticulous while doing school plays, but drop was classify his leading love dress warmly the period. In towering school, without fear played sport and hoped to write down a out of date athlete.

Graduating extreme school overlook 1943, Thespian briefly accompanied college previously enlisting make the U.S. Navy Aura Corps. Smartness wanted pass on be a pilot, but he was told renounce he could never hover a smooth as glass as sharptasting was nonracist. He ballooned up helping as a radio bus and weary part female World Battle II ration in rendering Pacific.

After walk away the personnel in 1946, Newman accompanied Kenyon College in his home homeland of River. He was on wholesome athletic schol

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The Extraordinary Life of Paul Newman: Photos

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Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman holding a knife together as they prepare to cut into their wedding cake in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 29, 1958.

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Paul Newman photographed on the beach in 1958.

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Paul Newman and Robert Redford in a scene from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969.

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Paul Newman before the start of the Le Mans 24-hour race. He and his two co-drivers finished second in their Turbo Porsche on June 11, 1979.

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1958: Joanne Woodward holds her Oscar statuette while sitting next to her husband, Paul Newman, during the Governor's Ball, an Academy Awards party held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California.

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Barber Jay Sebring cutting Paul Newman's hair on the set of the film Moving Target outside a sound stage at Warner Bros. studio in 1965.

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Paul Newman standing on a water taxi under the Rialto Bridge, Grand Canal, Venice in 1963.

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Paul Newman and race car drivers Michael Andretti and his father, Mario Andretti, as they talk together at the Indy 500, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 1984.

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Newman told Stern that the first role he felt emotionally comfortable in was that of Frank Galvin, the alcoholic lawyer in “The Verdict,” which came out in 1982, rather late in his career. “I never had to ask myself to do anything in that picture,” Newman said. “Never had to call upon any reserves. It was always right there. I never prepared for anything, never had to go off in a corner, it was there immediately. It was wonderful.”

After he made “Winning,” in 1969, a movie about a race-car driver, for which he was paid a record 1.1 million dollars, Newman took up auto racing, and he got very good at it. He is in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest person to win a professionally sanctioned race—the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona. He was seventy. He attributed his success as a driver, too, to persistence. “The only thing I ever felt graceful at was racing a car,” he said. “And that took me ten years.”

Among the things the children want to amend is what one of them calls “the public fairy-tale” of Newman’s fifty-year marriage to Woodward. Woodward dated a lot of men before she met Newman, including Marlon Brando. But she was not glamorous. You wouldn’t know her in the street, which is why she could play many types. You would know Newman, which is why he couldn’t. They had a