Famous actors : Paul Newman, Elizabeth Tailor
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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