“I felt like a goodman freak,” Newman wrote.
“Girls thought I was a joke.
A happy buffoon.”
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, circa 1965.Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images
That all changed when he met Woodward, a fellow understudy in the Broadway playPicnic, in 1953.
“I went from being not much of a sexual threat to something else entirely,” he said.
He had an affair with Woodward and ultimately married her after divorcing Witte in 1958.
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.Robin Platzer/Images Press/Getty Images
“Hotels and public parks and Hertz Rent-A-Cars.”
“‘I call it the ‘F— Hut,’ she said proudly.
It had been done with such affection and delight,” Newman recalled.
“Old bicycle pumps.
She was wearing a bandana and a paint-covered smock.
I said, ‘What are you doing?’
She said, ‘Painting.’
“Joanne and I still drive each other crazy in different ways,” Newman recounted in the memoir.
Paul Newman: The Extraordinary Life of An Ordinary Manis out Oct. 18.
