Classic Movies: September 2008 Archives

Tops on my list is Newman as Brick in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," the film which earned him his first of eight Academy Award nominations. He finally won, on the sixth nod, for "Color of Money," a year after receiving an honorary Oscar for his body of work. He also received the Academy's humanitarian Oscar.

The great "I can't swim!" scene in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"

The "No man can eat 50 eggs" scene from "Cool Hand Luke."

The trailer for "Nobody's Fool," one of Newman's later movies and one that earned him his seventh Oscar nomination (the eighth came later for "Road to Perdition."

Speaking of Oscars, the final clip is from the 1992 Academy Awards when Newman and Elizabeth Taylor, made a dramatic entrance - 34 years after "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" - to present the best picture award. Both still looked sensational...