Paul Newman was an American veteran actor known for his works in the 1970s Hollywood. With incredible movies like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, and The Sting to 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 book Paul 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.
Talking about the love letters that Paul Newman sent to her second wife Joanne Woodward, Melissa Newman stated in an interview with Fox News Digital that 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.”
Although Paul Newman had a very successful Hollywood career, the actor did reject a particular role that solidified the way for veteran actor-director Clint Eastwood in Hollywood.
Paul Newman Paved The Way For Clint Eastwood In Hollywood
Back in the day, Clint Eastwood shone in the role of Dirty Harry in the 1971 film Dirty Harry. Solidifying his way in Hollywood, the role was initially rejected by Paul Newman for unknown reasons. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly about 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 movie Cars.
