Multi-talented, Paul Newman is one of the greatest American actors of all time. With his silhouette of a Greek statue and his unreal blue eyes, he embodied the quintessential Hollywood star. But he never seemed satisfied. The son of a Jewish sporting goods retailer who despises him and a Catholic mother who adores him, driven by self-doubt and an inherited need for approval from his childhood, he has worked throughout his fifty-year career to break the image of the pretty boy. He made his first experiences in the famous Actors Studio. The breakthrough as a screen star came in 1958 with "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". From then on he preferred characters on the edge of the American dream. With archive images and film excerpts, the documentary paints a portrait of a socio-politically committed man with many facets and also pays tribute to the role of his wife Joanne Woodward.
Paul Newman
as Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee (archive footage)
Joanne Woodward
as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Robert Redford
as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Martin Scorsese
as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Sidney Lumet
as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Joshua Logan
as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Jane Fonda
as Self (archive footage)
Natalie Wood
as Self (archive footage)
Lauren Bacall
as Self (archive footage)
Elizabeth Taylor
as Self (archive footage)
Rita Moreno
as Self (archive footage)
Sidney Poitier
as Self (archive footage)
