When he found out that Gable was fighting for his country, Hitler offered a reward of $5,000 to anyone who could capture and bring the actor to him. Stunningly handsome, Newman maintained his superstar status while keeping his distance from its corrupting influences through nearly 100 Broadway, television and movie roles. Reinvigorated, Newman returned to acting, exploring character roles with new and unexpected depth. In January 1942 he lost his third wife, Carol Lombard, in a plane crash. [64], Newman was an auto racing enthusiast, and first became interested in motorsports ("the first thing that I ever found I had any grace in") while training at the Watkins Glen Racing School for the filming of Winning, a 1969 film. Annoyed by the public’s fascination with his resemblance to a Roman statue and his Windex-blue eyes, Newman often chose offbeat character roles. He turned to acting. . Newman attended the March on Washington on August 28, 1963,[62] and was also present at the first Earth Day event in Manhattan on April 22, 1970. [24][25], After the war, Newman completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in drama and economics at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1949. Newman fell into a period of turmoil in which he and Woodward began an affair. Their Newman Freeman Racing team was very competitive in the North American Can-Am series in their Budweiser sponsored Chevrolet-powered Spyder NFs. Later, he reached the rank of staff sergeant during WWII. of Hole in the Wall Camps. . and Mrs. Bridge.” Newman also directed her in four other films, including the highly respected “Rachel, Rachel,” about a schoolteacher whose fears keep her trapped in a small town. 1961), and Claire "Clea" Olivia (b. [67] He took the pole in his last professional race, in 2007 at Watkins Glen International, and in a 2008 run at Lime Rock, arranged by friends, he reportedly still did 9/10ths of his best time. He later drove in the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans in Dick Barbour's Porsche 935 and finished in second place. Although most of them were previously in the infantry, as a passionate pilot with a flying license, Stewart took to the skies during the war. In 1969, when he was Hollywood’s most popular leading actor, Newman teamed with Redford in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” a movie about two affable bandits who had outlived their time. "[29], Newman arrived in New York City in 1951 with his first wife, Jackie Witte, taking up residence in the St. George section of Staten Island. He said he would stand up for Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential election as long as there was cold Budweiser and Nuclear Freeze involved. [33][100], In 1968, Newman was named Man of the Year by Harvard University's performance group, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Newman and Hotchner wrote witty labels to go with the company’s motto: “Shameless exploitation in pursuit of the common good,” which later became the name of their book that describes their adventures in business. Flowers were left on the Hollywood star of actor Paul Newman. [30][31], He made his Broadway theater debut in the original production of William Inge's Picnic with Kim Stanley in 1953 and appeared in the original Broadway production of The Desperate Hours in 1955. He lobbied the state's governor for funds for the 2011 Aspetuck Land Trust in Easton. “You never see the whole deck. Newman once wrote a check on the spot for someone who knocked on his door saying the local fire department needed a new fire engine, said Navasky, the Nation magazine editor. Paul Newman, Glenn Close and Robert Redford at a 2006 Sundance Institute event in New York City. “I desperately wanted to show him that somehow, somewhere along the line, I could cut the mustard,” Newman told Time magazine in 1982. Even “The King of Hollywood” Clark Gable enlisted in WWII. [21], Newman showed an early interest in the theater; his first role was at the age of seven, playing the court jester in a school production of Robin Hood. Newman and Haas were racing team owners, and Rahal their driver. Fortunately, nobody did, and for his service, Gable was awarded the American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Air Medal, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He spent three years as a radio operator aboard bombers in the Pacific. Having said he would quit "when I embarrass myself", Newman competed into his 80s, winning at Lime Rock in what former co-driver Sam Posey called a "brutish Corvette" displaying his age as its number: 81. USS Bunker Hill was destroyed by two kamikaze attacks in quick succession, resulting in more than 600 casualties. [82] They remained married for 50 years until his death in 2008. The legenary star of “The Hustler,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” died of lung cancer at his home in Connecticut. He subsequently attributed everything he knew about acting to the creative community of actors, writers and directors at the studio. That same year, he co-starred with Eva Marie Saint and Frank Sinatra in a live—and color—television broadcast of Our Town, a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's stage play. Author James Baldwin with actors Marlon Brando and Charlton Heston at the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963. [88], Newman was scheduled to make his professional stage directing debut with the Westport Country Playhouse's 2008 production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, but he stepped down on May 23, 2008, citing his health concerns. Stewart came from a family with a tradition of service in the Army. Newman and Freeman began a long and successful partnership with the Newman Freeman Racing team in the Can-Am series which culminated in the Can-Am Team Championship trophy in 1979. In his profile on 60 Minutes, he admitted he once left Woodward after a fight, walked around the outside of the house, knocked on the front door and explained to Joanne he had nowhere to go. So I think that's pretty much a closed book for me. Powell.[38]. After “Road to Perdition,” he did voice work for the animated film “Cars” in 2006. He also said that he never met anyone who had as much to lose as he did. [33], In February 1954, Newman appeared in a screen test with James Dean, directed by Gjon Mili, for East of Eden (1955). “I might never have found the outside world if I hadn’t been drafted into the Army,” said Charles Bronson, the legendary actor who starred as the anti-hero in Death Wish, the nemesis of Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West, and one of the members in The Magnificent Seven. After touring with several summer stock companies including the Belfry Players, Newman attended the Yale School of Drama for a year before studying at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg.
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