King Cool: Paul Newman

Paul Newman was born January 26, 1925. Coming out of Ohio, he worked in summer stock and attended Yale Drama School for a year before moving to New York and studying under Lee Strasberg at The Actors Studio. He appeared in the original Broadway productions of Picnic and The Desperate Hours (and later Sweet Bird of Youth) before bursting onto the film scene with his performance as Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me. Over the next fifty years, Newman would create one of the most indelible careers in Hollywood, leaving an extensive number of tough but charming individualists as his legacy. This January, the Dryden presents five of Newman’s best-known performances from the zenith of his career.

Dates and Titles:

January 3: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, 1958, 108 min., 35mm)

January 10: Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963, 112 min., 35mm)

January 17: Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967, 127 min., 35mm)

January 24: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969, 110 min., 35mm)

January 25 (2 p.m.): Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969, 110 min., 35mm) 

January 31: The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973, 129 min., DCP)