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Paul Newman: Blue-Eyed Cool

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Book cover for “Paul Newman: Blue-Eyed Cool”

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Look of Love

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.Milton H. Greene

Photos from the book “Paul Newman: Blue-Eyed Cool” Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward photoshoot for U.S.I.A cover, September 1964

03of 10’Excuse Me While I Take This Call…‘Milton H. GreeneWalking near their Connecticut home in 1964, Woodward uses the clunky non-functioning phone her husband sometimes carried in his pocket. It was well before mobile phones and Joshua Greene, whose father Milton brought him along while photographing Newman, recalls how the star would “pretend to answer [the phone] when he needed rescuing from a boring conversation.”

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‘Excuse Me While I Take This Call…’

Milton H. Greene

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, February 1968

Walking near their Connecticut home in 1964, Woodward uses the clunky non-functioning phone her husband sometimes carried in his pocket. It was well before mobile phones and Joshua Greene, whose father Milton brought him along while photographing Newman, recalls how the star would “pretend to answer [the phone] when he needed rescuing from a boring conversation.”

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Playful Co-Star

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Ava Gardner and American actor Paul Newman on the film set for ‘The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean’, 1972

05of 10At The TrackAl Satterwhite found car-racing enthusiast “P.L. Newman” to be focused and competitive: “He was just another race driver . . . and a lot of fun to be around.”

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At The Track

Photos from the book “Paul Newman: Blue-Eyed Cool” Paul Newman racing contact sheet

Al Satterwhite found car-racing enthusiast “P.L. Newman” to be focused and competitive: “He was just another race driver . . . and a lot of fun to be around.”

06of 10Stars CollideTerry O’Neill / Iconic ImagesNewman and Clint Eastwood ran into each other at a Tucson motel while separately on location in 1972. Photographer Terry O’Neill, who was with Newman on the set ofThe Life and Times of Judge Roy Beanat the time, recalls: “I said [to Eastwood], ‘You know, there’s no great photo of you and Newman,’ so we arranged for it to happen.”

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Stars Collide

American screen stars Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood meet by chance outside a motel in Tucson, Arizona, 1972

Newman and Clint Eastwood ran into each other at a Tucson motel while separately on location in 1972. Photographer Terry O’Neill, who was with Newman on the set ofThe Life and Times of Judge Roy Beanat the time, recalls: “I said [to Eastwood], ‘You know, there’s no great photo of you and Newman,’ so we arranged for it to happen.”

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That Famous Gaze

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Paul Newman photographed for People magazine in Beverly Hills, California in 1980

08of 10At Home, At EaseMilton H. GreeneFar from Hollywood, Newman and Woodward lived along Connecticut’s Aspetuck River, which he dammed to create a swimming hole for the kids. “I have fond memories of swimming in the hole and their pool, grilling food and having simple meals,” writes Joshua Greene. “The Newman vibe was … come as you are and do what you like.”

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At Home, At Ease

Paul Newman

Far from Hollywood, Newman and Woodward lived along Connecticut’s Aspetuck River, which he dammed to create a swimming hole for the kids. “I have fond memories of swimming in the hole and their pool, grilling food and having simple meals,” writes Joshua Greene. “The Newman vibe was … come as you are and do what you like.”

09of 10’A Wonderful Life’Eva Sereny / Iconic Images"He had such a wonderful life in Connecticut, a place where he, Joanne Woodward and their children lived, far away from Hollywood. I think that was his real secret – he chose to come and go as he pleased, away from the cameras," the late photographer Eva Sereny said of her at-home shoot with Newman in 1981.

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‘A Wonderful Life’

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American actor Paul Newman at his home in Connecticut, US, circa 1981.

“He had such a wonderful life in Connecticut, a place where he, Joanne Woodward and their children lived, far away from Hollywood. I think that was his real secret – he chose to come and go as he pleased, away from the cameras,” the late photographer Eva Sereny said of her at-home shoot with Newman in 1981.

10of 10Turning the TablesLawrence Fried / Iconic ImagesPhotographer Laurence Fried worked with Newman in the early New York City theater phase of his career and discovered the future screen star’s interest in photography.

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Turning the Tables

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American actor Paul Newman on the stage set of “Baby Want a Kiss”, co-starring Joanne Woodward at the Helen Hayes Theatre, New York, April 1964

Photographer Laurence Fried worked with Newman in the early New York City theater phase of his career and discovered the future screen star’s interest in photography.

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