Multi-talented, Paul Newman is one of the greatest American actors of all time. With his silhouette of a Greek statue and his unreal blue eyes, he embodied the quintessential Hollywood star. But he never seemed satisfied. The son of a Jewish sporting goods retailer who despises him and a Catholic mother who adores him, driven by self-doubt and an inherited need for approval from his childhood, he has worked throughout his fifty-year career to break the image of the pretty boy. He made his first experiences in the famous Actors Studio. The breakthrough as a screen star came in 1958 with "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". From then on he preferred characters on the edge of the American dream. With archive images and film excerpts, the documentary paints a portrait of a socio-politically committed man with many facets and also pays tribute to the role of his wife Joanne Woodward.
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Paul Newman
,
Joanne Woodward
,
Robert Redford
,
Martin Scorsese
,
Sidney Lumet
,
Joshua Logan
,
Jane Fonda
,
Natalie Wood
,
Lauren Bacall
,
Elizabeth Taylor
,
Rita Moreno
,
Sidney Poitier
,
Burt Lancaster
,
Paul McCartney
,
John Lennon
,
George Harrison
,
Ringo Starr
,
Anne Steffens
,
Tanya Blumstein
,
Gabi Franke
.