Few names include as a lot groundbreaking Hollywood historical past hooked up as Paul Newman. Born 100 years in the past on January 26, 2025, in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Newman conquered the silver display screen within the ’60s and ’70s, handing over performances that have been usually iconic — and typically, so highly effective, they modified common tradition (would we have now our present increase of charming anti-heroes with out Newman’s Butch Cassidy or Cool Hand Luke?).
However Newman was at all times modest about his expertise and success. As he wrote of his skilled beginnings in his posthumously printed 2022 memoir, “It was my look that received me within the door. The place the hell would I’ve been if I seemed like Golda Meir?”
Although he handed in 2008 after a battle with lung most cancers, Newman’s affect continues to be with us. So rejoice his centenary with 5 stuff you in all probability didn’t know concerning the blue-eyed legend.