Modern Screen (Feb-Dec 1958)

we waited five years (Continued from page 49) every day from the New Year asking them if they were being married on January 29th, when the divorce of Paul's wife, Jackie Witte Newman, became final. They lied, these two attractive and passionate rebels, because the moment was S3 important to them. They had waited five years for it, trying to kill their love and only increasing it; trying to keep thousands of miles between them, and continually coming together again; seeking out others to love, and forgetting them because they could only remember one another — Paul Newman, the married man and father, and Joanne Woodward, the finely brought-up, sensitive girl who recoiled from the position of being the other woman. Never once in those five long years had they permitted an informal picture to be taken of them together. Never once in the five years have they been seen out alone together — and this in a town where romances are staged for publicity and many a girl telephones many a man she has never met and sets up a red-hot date. Call it old-fashioned, if you will. Call it idealism, as it has been with Joanne and Paul. Call it crazy that so fierce was thc!r wish never to trade on the dream between them that they wouldn't even consent to being in a film together until Paul's wife had filed the divorce. And even when the moment came on January 29th and they stood before District Judge Frank McNamee in Las Vegas and heard the words that pronounced them man and wife, even then they had no photographs taken, no newsmen present. This was their love finally come to fruition. . . . It all began . . . They had fallen in love at their first meeting, back stage in New York, in 1953, when the twenty-two-year-old Georgia girl and the twenty-eight-year-old handsome war veteran, so recently graduated from Yale, were cast as understudies for Ralph Meeker and Janice Rule. Back there in 1953, Joanne Woodward wasn't the slim blonde girl you see on screen now. Her slim, dynamic appearance was to come later, actually in Hollywood, on one of her many trips, which she made flying away from Paul, determined to put him out of her life altogether. Neither was Paul the charming, assured lyoung man you see on screen now. He was a very troubled young man, trying to get a foothold in an incredible world which he had loved from childhood but which he wasn't sure he could make into a proifession for himself. His wife was all against it — its insecurities, its rowdy atJmosphere — even though she had met him through the theatre. He had enlisted in the Navy, shortly after Pearl Harbor, and had been sent to Yale for the V-12 program. Yale discovered he was color-blind and he became a radio men, third class, riding torpedo planes in the Pacific for three years. But fcven while he was at Yale the acting bug Ihe had had ever since childhood reinfected him: even in wartime, they were topaving drama classes at the college. Later, out of uniform, restless as most oys were under those circumstances, (aul enrolled in Kenyon College. He told imself he would major in economics. He id, too. But he also starred in ten camhatd^us plays. After he graduated, he thought e could safely give himself a couple of tNIiitnonths in a summer stock company before he settled down to the serious business of life. So he signed up with a small stock com pany playing at Williams Bay, Wisconsin — and met a pretty girl named Jackie Witte. Paul and Jackie were cast opposite one another in John Loves Mary. It was the most natural thing in the world that they should translate that into Paul loves Jackie. They were married in December of 1949. At almost the same time, Paul's father died — in Cleveland, where Paul had been born and brought up. His very successful sporting goods store was there, needing a manager. It was a ready-made job for Paul. So he took it. The first son There actually wasn't much else he could do. He and Jackie were expecting a baby, their son Scott. Paul had always loved sports. And with his personality, he was a natural salesman. But the dream of acting stayed with him. It made no sense — a couple of years later, when he and Jackie were expecting their second baby — that he should pull up stakes and go back to Yale. But he did. It was a compulsion. With Jackie and Scott and the baby-to-be, he went back to Yale's drama school and to the friends he had made during the war years. With his looks, the distance from Yale in New Haven to tv in New York was a mere stroll. From the moment he showed his face in the casting offices, Paul Newman was hot and he did show after show after show. Ginger Rogers sat with Ethel Merman at the Harwyn Club and mentioned her night-club debut at the HavoCa Riviera. "You'll find this out, about working in night clubs," Miss Merman warned her, "there'll always be someone at a back table complaining he can't hear a word you're singing — while you hear every word he's complaining." Leonard Lyons in the New York Post The money wasn't big but it was more than the sporting goods store paid him. He took a place down on Long Island for himself and his family. But it wasn't folksy as had been Cleveland, the old home town, the old home acquaintances. That didn't matter to Paul anyway. He was living in another world, the world of theatrical excitement, of dreams, of hopes. To Jackie it mattered terribly. She hated the insecurity of it, the wildness of it. And while people in the tv studios were always flocking around Paul, telling him how spectacular his success would be. . . . Jackie stayed down on Long Island, aloof from such an atmosphere. Paul meets Joanne Less than six months after he had left Yale, Paul was signed as understudy for the stage production of Picnic. There he met Joanne Woodward. Once a show has opened, the understudies have nothing to do. Nothing to do but sit backstage and hope, and talk and talk and talk. Their minds fell, in love long before their hearts did. The most enduring loves often start this way, mind meeting mind, compatibility meeting compatibility, enthusiasm igniting enthusiasm. It was this way with Joanne and Paul. Night after night, as they talked and talked and talked, they told themselves they were nothing but friends. Very fine friends. Wonderful friends. Only Joanne was such an unusual girl. And Paul was such an unusual fellow. 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