Extra Credit Questions

[David Lockmiller]

(07-16-2022 12:13 AM)AussieMick Wrote:  Well done, Steve. Yes that photo is on most (all?) editions of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. James Agee is the man.

Pretentious? Maybe. But then he had lots to be pretentious about.

The connection to Mr. Lincoln is through a series on CBS early in 1950's. Joanne Woodward played Anne Rutledge. Stanley Kubrick was also involved ...
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810851757/Ja...-1952-1953

Joanne Woodward met Paul Newman on the set of the stage comedy Picnic in the early 1950s, and the two married on January 29, 1958, after his divorce from his first wife Jacqueline Witte was finalized. Only two months after their wedding, Woodward won her first Academy Award. Newman got his first nomination later that year,1958, for Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Paul Neman won his first Oscar in 1986, for The Color of Money.

Paul Newman should have won the Oscar for his role in The Hustler (1961), and not The Color of Money, in my opinion. And, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, with Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman as the stars, is one of the finest movies ever made. I think Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor may be the two finest male and female actors ever. Robert Redford is a close second as a male actor. I still like the term actress although the term has now fallen out of favor.

I would like to see the movie about Lincoln in which Joanne Woodward played the role of Anne Rutledge. It would be interesting to see how she played the role and how the script of the actual romance is written (hopefully, with no literary license).