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Newman’s Own Success: His Dual Career Takes Off

Article Overview: Success did not come immediately for the young actor struggling to stake his claim in Hollywood. After starring in a movie so bad that Newman himself took out a full-page ad in a newspaper to apologize to movie-goers, he returned home to his family in New York, where he again began acting on stage and television. He would go back and forth between New York and Hollywood, starring in various mediocre performances, until 1956, when at the age of 31, Newman finally got his big break.

Newman’s Own Success: His Dual Career Takes Off

Success did not come immediately for the young actor struggling to stake his claim in Hollywood. After starring in a movie so bad that Newman himself took out a full-page ad in a newspaper to apologize to movie-goers, he returned home to his family in New York, where he again began acting on stage and television. He would go back and forth between New York and Hollywood, starring in various mediocre performances, until 1956, when at the age of 31, Newman finally got his big break.

Playing a boxer in “Somebody Up There Likes Me,” Newman shone. From there, he was offered roles in “The Helen Morgan Story,” “Until They Sail,” “The Long Hot Summer,” and Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire.” The awards came rolling in not long after. Newman’s next project, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” was one of the biggest grossing movies of the year; this, despite the fact that Newman hated the film and told people waiting in cinema lines to go home and save their money.

The films continued to roll in as Newman’s legendary status grew and America continued to fall in love with his blue eyes. In “The Left Handed Gun”, Newman impressed audiences by convincingly playing a teenager when he himself was 32 years old. One of his signature roles came with the 1961 portrayal of pool-shark Fast Eddie Felson in “The Hustler,” along with his Cool Hand Luke character in 1967. He also appeared notably with Robert Redford in the 1969 “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and 1973’s “The Sting.”

Newman was soon venturing into the worlds of writing and directing as well, producing such hits as “Harry & Son”, and three other films that starred his actress wife, Joanne Woodward. In one of the most enduring careers in Hollywood, Newman continues to act to this day, starring in such hits as “Road To Perdition” opposite Tom Hanks, and Disney/Pixar’s animated “Cars.” In recognition of his achievements, Newman has been given three Oscars, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award among other honors.

Today, however, it is his off-screen accomplishments that are attracting the most attention. In 1982, as a practical joke with writer friend A.E. Hotchner, Newman founded Newman’s Own, a food company that uses all-natural ingredients and whose entire profits were to be given away to charity. With a line of products that include everything from salad dressing to pasta sauce, lemonade, popcorn and salsa, Newman’s Own had given over $200 million away in donations by 2006. Charities that have received funding include the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a summer camp for seriously ill children, which Newman himself founded in 1986 and which today serves over 13,000 kids each year.

In 2003, Newman released a memoir about the Newman’s Own franchise, titled “Shameless Exploitation In Pursuit of the Common Good.” Newman also co-founded Newman/Haas Racing, a Champ Car auto racing team, in an attempt to fuel his life-long love of car racing. Today, much like the speed at which Newman likes to drive his cars, so too does he continue to plow ahead with both his business and his film career. Both on screen and off, Newman has created a legacy that will last for generations to come.

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