The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
For anyone who likes real-life Hollywood love stories, you won’t want to miss this one! Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Gable and Lombard, and thanks to The Long, Hot Summer, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward join the list.
While it isn’t the most romantic movie in the world, and in fact doesn’t usually come to mind when you think about cinematic love stories, it brought the two together during the ridiculously hot film set in Louisiana. Anyone who’s spent a summer in the South knows how sweltering it can be, and director Martin Ritt wanted the actors’ sweat to look authentic! The story is simple: an ambitious drifter sweet talks the boss’s daughter in order to move up in the world. The legacy is enduring, as Ma and Pa Newman have made more than their marks in the world.
If you want to watch the movie that brought them together, this is the one. If you’re looking for a good love story from the 1950s, this is not the one. Try Picnic or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof instead. The movie is a little slow at times, and a little wordy. And Joanne seriously needed to let her bangs grow!
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More Paul Newman movies here!
While it isn’t the most romantic movie in the world, and in fact doesn’t usually come to mind when you think about cinematic love stories, it brought the two together during the ridiculously hot film set in Louisiana. Anyone who’s spent a summer in the South knows how sweltering it can be, and director Martin Ritt wanted the actors’ sweat to look authentic! The story is simple: an ambitious drifter sweet talks the boss’s daughter in order to move up in the world. The legacy is enduring, as Ma and Pa Newman have made more than their marks in the world.
If you want to watch the movie that brought them together, this is the one. If you’re looking for a good love story from the 1950s, this is not the one. Try Picnic or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof instead. The movie is a little slow at times, and a little wordy. And Joanne seriously needed to let her bangs grow!
Want to watch it? Click here to see it on ok.ru and thanks "Classic Cinema Central Seleus B" for posting!
More Paul Newman movies here!