Since I liked my last post so very much, I’ve decided to make a big photo post of all the images of  the two of them I liked best.  Newman and Woodward were married for fifty years, and when asked why he never cheated, Newman famously said “Why go out for hamburger when you’ve got steak at home?”

These are roughly in chronological order.

1958

Celebrating her Oscar win for 1958’s “The Three Faces of Eve”

Look at the way he’s looking at her.

A bit of context for the above photo, Joanne decided to go back to school to get her B.A., and graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 1990 alongside their granddaughter Clea.  Paul Newman gave the commencement address.

Newman was an avid car racer, and Joanne hated it.  I read one anecdote that said one time she fell out of bed and broke her collarbone and he said “I don’t want to hear any more complaining about the dangers of racing.”

They were married for fifty years, until his death in 2008.  They mostly lived in Connecticut and did not consider themselves “Hollywood” people, which is probably why their marriage lasted.  Joanne also said that looks fade, but the secret was to marry someone who made you laugh every single day.

“I’ve repeatedly said that for people who have as little in common as Joanne and myself, we have an uncommonly good marriage. We are actors. We make pictures and that’s about all we have in common. Maybe that’s enough. Wives shouldn’t feel obligated to accompany their husbands to a ball game, husbands do look a bit silly attending morning coffee breaks with the neighborhood wives when most men are out at work. Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other … You can’t spend a lifetime breathing down each other’s necks … We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger.”