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Paul Newman was an American veteran actor known for his works in the 1970s Hollywood. With incredible movies likeButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke,andThe Stingto his name, the actor was as renowned as Al Pacino during his prime.
When his daughter Melissa Newman wrote a biography on Newman’s life which also included her mother and father’s affair, things started becoming a little too personal. Talking about Paul Newman’s love letters that seemed too “intimate” to publish in her book, Melissa Newman stated that people should take notes from her father on how to woo someone!
Paul Newman’s Love Letters Were Too Private To Publish
With the bookPaul Newman: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man,running fresh in the market, Newman’s daughter was the one who had to pick which details to include in the book and what to remove.
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Talking about the love letters that Paul Newman sent to her second wife Joanne Woodward, Melissa Newman stated in an interview withFox News Digitalthat some of Newman’s letters were deemed too private to share with the world. Stating that the letters weren’t smutty or anything, the daughter revealed that they were indeed deemed“naughty”.
“There [are] quotes from the letters in the book, I would read the letters and just go, ‘Oh, this is so sweet. This should go in the book.’ And then I would be reading on, and then I’d go, ‘Ooh, Dad, I can’t put this in the book!’”
She further continued,
“I always say, ‘People, read the things that my dad wrote to my mom … [and] take notes, man’. This is how you woo somebody. And it’s just so obvious that he was just [hit] upside the head. He fell for her so hard.”
AlthoughPaul Newmanhad a very successful Hollywood career, the actor did reject a particular role that solidified the way for veteran actor-director Clint Eastwood in Hollywood.
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Paul Newman Paved The Way For Clint Eastwood In Hollywood
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Back in the day, Clint Eastwood shone in the role of Dirty Harry in the 1971 filmDirty Harry.Solidifying his way in Hollywood, the role was initially rejected by Paul Newman for unknown reasons. Speaking toEntertainment Weeklyabout the situation, Clint Eastwood revealed that Newman was one of the guys that people just liked.
”Of course, my first question was, ‘Why didn’t he want to do it?’ He thought the character was sort of a radical guy on the right, so politically he couldn’t do it. I didn’t see it that way…. I’ll miss him. He was just one of those guys you liked.”
Marrying Joanne Woodward in 1958, Paul Newman and his second wife stayed happily ever after until the veteran actor’s death in 2008. One of Newman’s last works was voicing Doc Hudson in the 2006 animated movieCars.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
