The Truth About Robert Redford & Paul Newman’s Relationship
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- When Robert Redford and Paul Newman appeared alongside each other in the classic 1969 Western film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, they developed a friendship on the set of the film that would last over the remaining decades until Paul’s death in 2008. Although the two became and remained incredibly close friends over the years, they only ever reunited for one film after their initial hit together. Still, they considered each other family.
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06:49 - Outro
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Robert was a relative unknown when he tested for the part of the Sundance Kid. The studio was hoping for a bigger name star, such as Steve McQueen or Marlon Brando. However, Paul was so impressed by young Robert’s work that he stuck his neck out to ensure that the studio hired him instead. Paul’s instinct prevailed, as the film became a massive success both critically and commercially. As well, Robert appreciated Paul sticking his neck out for him for the rest of his life, and it’s part of why the two bonded so well.
After Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was released, Robert and Paul became Connecticut neighbors. Paul had already lived in the state, and Robert moved out to join him. The two lived less than a mile apart and spent much of their days together drinking beers and smoking cigarettes. Their follow-up feature was 1973’s The Sting, which went on to become an even bigger hit than their first film together.
Since Robert and Paul were such great friends and their first two films together were such massive hits, many have questioned why the two never reunited on the screen after The Sting. Join Facts Verse as we explore the truth about Robert Redford and Paul Newman’s relationship.
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I'm glad that Paul and Robert kept their friendship over the years
They were both handsome men. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
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My favorite of all time with Robert Redford and Paul Newman is "The Sting." A timeless movie indeed! 👍❤️🇺🇲
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is Unforgettable Movie. Amazing Stars, Fantastic Script and It's a Classic.
I second that!
Steve McQueen Robert Redford and Paul Newman were the hottest of their time IMO.
Hearing these 3 names, while being born in 1989, makes me wish I was older than I am.
And Clint Eastwood
Paul newman and Steve mcqueen had a sexual relationship 🤮
Apparently Paul wanted Robert too but he wasn't having it!
Yes, the trifecta. Clint Eastwood an equal.
Totally agree with you!
Newman & Redford, wow greatest actors ever. Such handsome men, in Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, I fell in love with them.
They were terrific, what chemistry between. RIP Mr. Newman, I will always be a fan. Mr. Redford wishing you all the best. Thank you both for all the great movies you made.
I enjoyed both actors over the years and it's nice to see/hear this touching story. May Paul Newman rest in peace, he was blessed to have such a good caring friend.
Butch and Sundance will be iconic forever
This made me cry
BOTH PAUL NEWMAN AND ROBET REDFORD WERE VERY TALENTED ACTORS. TOGATHER THEY WERE REALLY GREAT. THEIR MOVIES WILL CONTINUE TO BE APPRECIATED LONG AFTER THEY ARE GONE. VERY RARE TALENTS.
I like all Redford and Paul Newman films. But less known films Sneakers with Redford and Nobody’s Fool with Paul were underrated movies I still like to watch
I really enjoyed Sneakers, it has some great actors in it.
Two truly legends and great friends from the golden era of Hollywood!
These 2 should go down in History as The Magnificent 2 for the Friendship the shown each other! True an Loyal Mates Always an Ever.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid one of my favorite movies. Both great actors. I recently bought the dvd.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid plus The Sting are two of the best films ever made. Those two were magic.
A true friendship. Both of their movies are classics. I’m glad he there for the family after his friend’s death. Both are great actors and great humanitarians. Friends till the end. 🙏 Mr. Newman and to Mr. Redford for being a great friend. Sad, celebrating video of friendship the way it should be.
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Love Paul in 'Absence of Malice' & 'Cool Hand Luke'!
Yes, his two best films.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is my favorite - and Cool Hand Luke. However, I am quite obsessed with The Road to Perdition - a superb and haunting film. Newman, at close to 80, was still the best looking man on screen. As for Redford, I also like the Natural and All the President's Men.
Loved The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They were so good together. Both fun movies.
2 of the classiest actors in Hollywood!
there is no way to describe the impact these 2 men had on cinema as a pair....or as individuals. Just incredible. In fact, I use to live less than a mile from PN northern Westchester stables.
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They are true movie stars. Good looks, great acting plus class and dignity, which we hardly ever see these days.
True but the totaled Porsche was a stupid prank.
What a great story. Both movies were great butch Cassidy and the Sting. Both PAUL and Robert seem like men of good character.
The Long Hot Summer with his wife Joanne Woodward was one of my favorites for Paul Newman and Jeremiah Johnson for Robert Redford. The Sting was my favorite with both of them starring together.
Paul Newman was brilliant in 'Cat on a Hot tin Roof', And Redford in 'Barefoot in the Park'. IMO., So many brilliant performances and such great humanitarians.
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid is absolutely the greatest movie of all time. Hollywood will never be able to recapture such a masterpiece.
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When I first saw it in 1969 (one of the greatest years in film history) I wanted it to never end, a rare thing for me!
I adored Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid . I've watched the movie very many times . I knew the actors were close friends . Their chemistry is fantastic . The world has been a better place for both their contributions.
The sting is my all time favorite #1 movie ever. The script is fantastic and the chemistry between them is incredible
Unique soundtrack is also,outstanding; a totally fun movie
The plotline from the Sting was actually from a Maverick episode starring James Garner
“Robert Redford in “Our Souls at Night”with Jane Fonda. He is impeccable.
God Bless them both. They made movies that were phenomenal. The movies of today I wouldn't pay 5 cents to see.
Two of my all-time favorite actors.
The aspect of Redford that I admire most, is that he chose to age naturally. Many others who chose to have "work" done, wound up looking like death-masks.
Redford had a face lift about 6 years ago.
@@joyfonvielle4227 Very True !!! He had his eyes done earlier years before… Paul Newman had a nose-job when he began his career..
Yes Robert Redford did give in to cosmetic surgery and I feel he lost something in his great face..he had a lot of lines before the surgery, but looked like a very good looking guy with lines..but I guess it was his choice
@@joyfonvielle4227 If that's true, he should have sued the doctor.
Redford had several cosmetic surgery procedures. It was Newman who aged gracefully.
In the late 70's, there was a novel called "The Front Runner," about a gay runner, and his coach, and the Montreal Olympics. The novel became a best seller, and there was talk of a film, and they wanted Redford as the runner, and Newman as the coach. I happened to write a theme for the movie I called "Frontrunner." Newman was afraid of public opinion, at the time, so the film was never made. It's now on UA-cam....just piano/vocal. Look for it by Gene Howard Klein, if interested.
Both are incredibly successful actors and so humble.
Fascino Charme e professionalità.....Uomini..attori e persone così non torneranno più....Dei grandi personaggi inimitabili.. .❤❤❤
I read somewhere Paul Newman pranked Robert Redford by sending him a box of toilet tissues with the latter’s face stenciled on each square…
I enjoyed both movies they made together. Because of the chemistry. To bad they didn't make more movies together. Then Robert Redford looked after Paul Newman's family after he died. Now that's a true bromance.
100%
A true friendship this was.
No better 1,2 punch in cinema 📽️🎥 history. Fantastic role models
Two amazingly great actors. And apparently good men and true friends.
Two of my all time favourite actors, two amazing talents
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Both actors are handsome. However, I prefer Paul. Of course, his blue eyes are captivating but there's something about his lips I like! Lol It's obvious he had such a kind heart. Newman's Own is a none-profit. How beautiful that they were such good friends!
In the mid-nineties my girlfriend worked for Redford in the offices of his "Constellation Pictures" offices as his personal secretary. Newman would call frequently and every time she answered the phone, he'd yell "REDFORD!!!!", and of course, after the first time it happened, she knew who it was and would politely say that she'd connect him right away! We had a lot of yuks over it!
2 incredibly handsome men when they were young. Beautiful to look at.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was my favorite!
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"An absence of Malice, and a film paul played a guy called Sullivan in Hudson Valley N.Y. were very true to life.
The two most handsome men of all times for me. My favourite movies are This property is condemned and The way we were.
That was great - loved watching both actors, especially Paul. I fell in love with him when I saw The Silver Chalice [ his most hated film ] when I was 16 haha x
Two of the all time greats.R.I.P. Paul.
Butch Cass. + the Sundance K. .... My favourite all-time movie ! ............ ( who are those guys ? )
Robert Redford, I always had a big crush on him. Still do. So did Betty White. I wish Robert R and Paul Newman could have done one last movie together. I loved the 2 movies they did together. 2 very handsome men. They both did alot of great movies. ]🥰❤
BC & the SK, one of my all time fav movies, I remember seeing it when it was released and I have a copy on DVD.
Same here. I have it on DVD, too. A great film and both actors were hilarious in it and played their parts brilliantly. A true western classic.
Two great guys and actors. I love Paul's Parmigiano Italian dressing.
I liked the 2 movies they did together. I'm glad they were friends. Both great actors. ❤ I was a fan of both, 2 handsome actors. I've been crazy about Robert Redford for years, Just like our late Golden Girl Betty White. 🕊😇
The Sting is my favorite movie of all time. It was perfectly cast from the leads down to the actors with just one or two lines. Newman was eight steps ahead of everyone in the con. It was also Redford's only Best Actor Oscar nomination in his career.
They are and will continue to be GREAT actors both but, together they were at their very best. Paul is missed as are seeing Robert on the big or small screen.
God Bless (us all)
Robert redford a great star. And great man
My God! They were both beautiful.
I loved them in both movies and it so touching that they were friends to the end and its nice the way Robert Redford looks out for Joanne Woodward with her alzheimers and Pauls adult children. What a nice guy and its also nice the way that Redford was saying hiw Paul taught him a lot about values, etc.
RIP and long live Paul Newman (January 26, 1925 - September 26, 2008), aged 83
You will always be remembered as a legend.
Thank you for you beautiful message to Paul Newman. May he find peace 😢
@@FactsVerse You’re welcome my friend.
Two great movies by two great actors.
From 1970 to 1973 I had a big poster in my room of Redford as the Sundance Kid. It was replaced with a big poster of Don Corleone sitting behind his desk.
Very nice story of 2 of my all time favorites.I learned what close friends they were which I didnt quite realize,and Iwas very touched as I smiled to myself listening to their great story.
The movie Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid was the first movie that I took my high school girlfriend to. We have been married 48 years. Like Paul's wife my wife has Alzheimer's and even though on medicine for it she is getting worst with it. Breaks my heart. She was so smart & organised and now can not walk into another room and remember why she went for. Two great actors.
Sorry for your wife man.
Off the top of my head I can’t think of any other acting pair who were as good together as Newman and Redford. The two movies, which were both Great, will forever link the two of them and your memory of them!!
The only other two whom I enjoyed so much on film were Lemon and Mattheau. Not sure I spelled Walters’ name right.
That's what Google is for.
Totally agree with you .
I’d add Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy
@@NS-vw8pm I Agree Wholeheartedly!!
@@NS-vw8pm I tell who else were Great in a movie together. William Powell & Spencer Tracy. I Just Watched “ Libeled Lady”. It’s a Great Movie!! I think it was made in 1936
Newman was very close to McQueen and wanted him to play the Sundance Kid. He didn’t get his way but was happy with Redford and they became the friends this narrator his claiming despite is screwed up beginning
I Love "The Sting". Leonardo Dicaprio had some Big Footsteps to follow in "The Great Gatsby" I Love Robert Redford in the 70's version. But He also played a very believable Villain in Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier".
This mentions Paul Newman returning to his “mansion” - Paul’s house in Westport where he lived since the 1950’s is a modest red barn structure - he was the kind of person who would not be comfortable even visiting a mansion.
Appreciate all the positivity!
2 greats with an awesome friendship , i heard that when Redford entered the Marvel Universe , theres a scene where he goes into his frig and theres a Newmans Own Spaghetti sauce on the shelf , been said it was an honor made towards his friend
I have got a movie DVD of
Paul Newman with
Robert Redford and Robert Shaw in
The Sting
I am dedicating this movie DVD to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxxx
Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid is a great movie. Sam Elliott only an extra meet his current wife on this set, Katherine Ross. Paul’s best film was “Cool Hand Luke”. Robert’s was the horse whisperer. Paul would have been immensely better in the “ Walk in the Woods” than Nick.
Very difficult to lose a great friendship ...either makes you stronger 💪 or, go other way
Thank u Robert for caring for Paul & JoAnne in their later years. ❤️
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My dear lord..... ❤😵❤.... Newman was Michelangelo's inspiration for David
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Absolutely!!! 🤩
I have got a movie DVD of
Paul Newman Robert Redforf
and Robert Shaw in
The Sting
I am dedicating this movie DVD to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxxx
The Iconic western of course!
It was madness that they didn't make another film together,you would of thought that one of the studios didn't setup a special script search especially for these two,the films they could of done,
I loved Robert Redford in Out of Africa. He and Meryl were perfect together. One of my favourite movies ever.
The Sting was fun but Sundance was a great movie and deserves more recognition for both actors. Their timing was perfect and their connection undeniable
I'm a HUGE Paul Newman fan! Even though this list of my favorite films/performances by him is long, I definitely whittled it down: Somebody Up There Likes Me; The Rack; The Long, Hot Summer; Cat On a Hot , Tin Roof; The Hustler; Hud; Sometimes a Great Notion; The Sting; The Verdict; The Color of Money; The Hudsucker Proxy; Nobody's Fool; Road to Perdition.
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Add "Sweet Bird of Youth" to that list. Great movie.
@@harpgal9950 I know--but I said I whittled the list down. Sweet Bird of Youth was left out reluctantly!
@@seriesscratchx9807 He was so good in so many movies - I can see how you have to whittle the list down.
Robert Redford is a good friend to my family in Jersey and NY
How did your family get to know him? From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Nancy, that's nice. Mr Redford does seem like a genuinely good person.
Regards from Scotland .
Amazing looks and actors.
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very nicely done!
Great friendships between men are rare these daze . Thanks!
2 of my fav actors
Nicely done.
I believe you got a couple things wrong. I have heard interviews with both actors over the years and I seem to remember Paul was originally hired to be Sundance. When Robert came into the picture it was decided it would be better for the roles to be reversed. Also, while McQueen and Newman were contemporaries they were not really friends. McQueen was the first choice for Butch Cassidy... but his demands became so petty and unreasonable that he was dropped. When they made the Towering Inferno together McQueen actually required he would have the exact same number of lines as Newman. Redford and Newman were so great together it is sad they could never find another project that they both liked.
I vaguely remember that, and then when they went to Newman about his billing on Inferno to see if he was going to make the same demands as McQueen I think I read he just said "I don't give a shit" or something like that.
They made a handsome couple.
Excelenti actori...❤❤
The Sting: one of my fav movies of all time.
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Great chemistry on screen
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Paul Newman was set to play Sundance initially. After Redford was cast he convinced director George Roy Hill to give him Sundance. That's been corroborated numerous times by both men.
They could both make a scene sizzle, that's for sure. Prior to "A Walk in the Woods," they could never find a script
that either of them liked. I do believe "A Walk in the Woods" was definately a film they could've made into a huge
hit. They thrived on conflict and humor as actors. Paul was too old by then. I didn't particularly like the script or
the acting with Bob and Nick, but the story itself certainly had a lot of possibilities.
I think both of them are my favorite actors and I liked both movies they did a lot and I’ve re-watch them a lot I can’t really tell you which is my favorite because it’s been very humid is that both of them have made I haven’t liked
Newman, Road to Perdition, Redford, Jeremiah Johnson
Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid has to be the best western ever. I've been told a few times by afficianados that it's not a real western. If it isn't, then I guess I don't like westerns.
And The Sting is The Sting. 'Nuff said.
Too bad the only made two films together, given their on-screen chemistry. I think what made their on-screen chemistry so well is because they were actually genuine friends in real-life.
great days long gone , be forgotten by the new immigrants . i like Robert Redford in the twilight zone or outer limits show when he was like 19 , the western with Redford and Paul Newman was great . nobody cant stop time, it wipes us all out, enjoy yours its over to quick .
From The Simpsons, which I think was Newmans last role: "I'll tell you the same thing I told Redford.....it ain't gonna happen".
Oh yes they were great friends ... how sad ... it seemed like Paul Newman was going to live to 100 ...
Cool hand Luke is my Favorite Paul Newman Charactor!!! My Favorite Robert Redford Charactor is Mr. Death in The Twilight Zone Episode Nothing in the Dark!!
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Wowza!❤️😍