Newman, actor, director, and racing
driver, was born so good looking
that people said it was а shame to
waste such beauty on, boy. He was
born in Cleveland, 0hio, in 1925,
and did some acting in high
school and college, but never
seriously considered making it his
future career. However, after
graduating, he immediately started
working in the theater. He met his
first wife, Jackie Witte, while they
were acting together, and they got
married in 1949. They had three
children, a boy and two girls He
found work in the theater and on
several TV shows in New York. When
he was thirty, he went to Los
Angeles and made his first film. It
was what Newman called an
'uncomfortable' start in the movies,
in the role of a Greek slave. The
experience was so bad that he went
back to the theater and didn't
accept another film role for two
years. The film he chose was his
big break. He played the boxer,
Rocky Graziano, in the film Someone
up There Likes Me. Newman is a
method actor who believes in living
the part before beginning the film
He spent days - from morning till
night - with Graziano. He studied
the fighter's speech and watched him
box, and they talked endlessly about
Graziano's childhood. The picture
brought Newman stardom overnight. He
was living in Los Angeles away from
his family when he met Joanne
Woodward, an actress who he had
first met in New York. They worked
together in The Long Hot Summer. His
wife, Jackie, and Paul recognized
that their marriage wasn't working,
and got divorced. Newman and Miss
Woodward were married in Las Vegas
in 1958. Newman went on to make
films such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
The Hustler, Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid, The Sting and Towering
Inferno. He has made over forty-five
films, and has won many awards, but
he has never won an Oscar. His
marriage to Woodward is one of the
longest and strongest in Hollywood.
They have three daughters, and they
have co-starred in six films. Ever
since the film Winning, Newman has
been passionately interested in car
racing, and in 1979 he came second
in the twenty-four hour Le Mans
race. But the end of the 1970s was
not all good news for him. In 1978
his only son, Scott, died of a drug
overdose, and as a result Newman
created the Scott Newman Foundation
to inform young people on drug
abuse. He has a strong social
conscience, and has supported causes
such as the anti-nuclear movement,
the environment, and driver
education. All the money from
'Newman's Own' salad dressing,
popcorn, and spaghetti sauce, now a
multi-million dollar business, goes
to charity. He is more than just a
movie star. would like to be
remembered as a man who has tried to
help people to communicate with each
other,' says Newman, 'and who has
tried to do something good with his
life. You have to keep trying. Thafs
the most important thing.'
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