Newman’s own can be yours — for the right price.
Items belonging to the famed Hollywood actor, who was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won Best Actor for his portrayal of pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson in “The Color of Money (1986)” are now up for bid at Sotheby’s.
Newman fanatics can bid on props like metal shackles from the 1967 flick “Cool Hand Luke,” which were estimated to go for between $3,000 and $5,000 but have already hit a high bid of $11,000; or the size 10 ice skates he wore as player-coach Reggie Dunlop in the hilarious 1977 hockey film “Slap Shot.”
Two of Newman’s highly coveted Rolex wristwatches could fetch up to $1 million apiece at Sotheby’s “Life & Legacy” auction, which includes more than 300 personal items belonging to the iconic sex symbol and his actor wife, Joanne Woodward.
The two Rolex Daytonas from Newman — which headline Sotheby’s “Important Watches” portion of the June 9 auction — are not the “Paul Newman” branded Daytonas,
The series of sales, consisting of items that the legendary actors assembled and enjoyed throughout their 50-year marriage, will “offer a rare window into the personal and professional lives of the famed couple who were also dedicated philanthropists,” Sotheby’s said.
In addition to the film and entertainment memorabilia, the items, culled primarily from the Newman-Woodward residence in Westport, Conn., feature automotive and racing collectibles, family photographs, antique furniture, as well as fine decorative arts collected by the couple.
Woodward watchers can score the red velvet dress she wore in the 1957 movie “The Three Faces of Eve,” which has a suggested bid of between $600 and $800.
Political junkies may want to bid on a copy of President Richard Nixon’s “enemies” list — on which Newman is ranked 19th.
The docket was compiled by Charles Colson and George T. Bell, both advisors to the president, and included a wide range of persons believed to be political opponents of Nixon.
The list, which is expected to fetch $150 to $250, comes complete with notes on the actor’s “Radic-Lib causes.”
Newman – who attended the March on Washington and supported civil rights — was “delighted” he made the cut, his daughter, Melissa Newman, 61, said, adding, “He was tickled pink and framed it.”
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Antique furniture, family photographs, racing collectibles, and the power couple’s fine decorative arts collection are available.
“My parents shared a passion for antiques and vintage items, the quirkier the better,” Melissa Newman noted.
And then there is the infamous ordinary double bed purchased by Woodward at a thrift shop that was kept in the Newman home.
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In excerpts from his posthumous memoir, “Paul Newman: The Extraordinary Life of An Ordinary Man,” Newman recounts finding his wife in their Beverly Hills home in a paint-covered smock, upon returning from their honeymoon in 1958.
She led him to a small room where she had moved “some thrift-shop double bed with a new Sealy mattress,” recently re-painted by her.
Woodward proudly coined the room the ‘F–k Hut,’ and the two would spend “several nights a week and just be intimate and noisy and ribald.”
Sotheby’s said the auctions “will illuminate the two worlds that Woodward and Newman occupied: the glamorous lifestyle of a Hollywood power-couple and their private life where they surrounded themselves with the people, objects and philanthropic causes they cherished the most.”
Newman, who was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, and won Best Actor for 1986’s “The Color of Money,” died in 2008.
Woodward, who won Best Actress for “The Three Faces of Eve” in 1958, has been living with Alzheimer’s disease since 2007.
The auction is divided into three separate sales: “Important Watches” on June 9; “A Life and Legacy” which runs now to June 12 and features “a curated selection of the memorabilia, furniture, fine art, and décor that the Newman family amassed and lived with for decades on end,” Sotheby’s says.
The third auction, “High Speed,” which features items related to Newman’s racing career, runs to June 13.
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