Informative Essay On Paul Newman

The younger generations may not know what a wonderful person Paul Newman is but this is the reason for writing this paper about his life and established career. He is a local who shot to stardom and became a household name in both acting and business. I am here to tell you about his early life, his acting career, and the race car driver whom he lived to be. Who would have known that someone from Ohio could be so successful. Paul Leonard Newman, the second son, was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio on January 26, 1925 to Theresa (Fetsko) and Arthur Sigmund Newman. Paul’s father was Jewish and owner of a sporting goods store and his mother was a practicing Christian Scientist, but Paul’s uncle Joe gave him his itch for acting career. The young, good …show more content…
This movie was based on the real life of race car driver Frank Capua. So Newman could portray Capua character well, he had to go to school at Bob Bondurant racing school to learn how to maneuver the car like a professional. Many of the treacherous scenes in the movie were done without a stunt double. For Newman race car driving became a dangerous second career. In 1972, Newman’s race car was a expensive Lotus Elan which he won his first Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) race. Newman experimented in using higher performance engines that would allow him to go at faster speeds than a normal car would ever exceed and ended up winning four SCCA professional national championships. Newman made his racing career a high priority from April to October every year and he would not take on an acting job, so he could focus on his passion for speed. As a race car driver, Newman felt his greatest accomplishment was placing second place in a twenty-four hour Le Mans in ’79. Shockingly endurance racing was something that Newman continued until he was eighty-one in