'The Silver Chalice's Paul Newman Pleaded in the Papers . In Newman's defense, 1954's The Silver Chalice is not a great ...

Newman was contractually obliged to play the lead in Vincent Sherman’s literary adaptation, The Young Philadelphians, even though he really didn’t want to. He had a gentleman’s agreement with the boss ...

PAUL Newman spent four decades trying to discourage people from watching his film debut, so it’s ironic “The Silver Chalice” is in the first group of his movies arriving on DVD fo… ...

In 1963, Newman put out a newspaper ad pleading with home viewers not to watch a TV broadcast of The Silver Chalice, still haunted by his work in his debut at a time when he was experiencing new ...

The Silver Chalice Like ... played by Newman, who is fashioning a silver chalice to hold the religious symbol. ... Virginia Mayo Pier Angeli Jack Palance Paul Newman Natalie Wood Joseph Wiseman ...

Having landed a part in an hour-long live production in the Ernest Hemingway adaptation The Battler that aired on TV, Newman ...

In 1954, Newman broke into Hollywood, after some Broadway success, with a turkey called “The Silver Chalice.” He played the part of Basil, an artist who makes the chalice used at the Last Supper.

Paul Newman Thought The Silver Chalice (His Debut) Was The Worst Movie Of The '50s Warner Bros. Five years before he'd earn the first of 10 Oscar nominations (he'd eventually win the Best Actor ...

In the book, Newman looks back on how "the experience of making" 1954's The Silver Chalice "became a metaphor for the whole movie junk, the failure of it, the hollowness, the superficiality," he says.