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CELEBRITY COUPLES - A MARRIAGE THAT SURVIVED
Unfortunately, lasting relationships are rare in Hollywood. If
partners are well-known film stars
the public eye the whole time, it is difficult to keep a marriage stable. A show business career is very unpredictable, and
makes a steady home life difficult. Now, with celebrity gossip readily available
the Internet, the pressures have become
more intense. However, one film-star couple, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, who met
other in 1952, have survived all the difficulties.
Woodward, , confesses she found combining family life and her husband's popularity hard, particularly the smash-hit movie The Hustler opened three years after they wed. "These days people are lovely and gracious and tend to treat me and Paul elder statesmen," she said recently. "But when I was young and we had young children, it was dreadful.
I hated
when photographers would shove me aside to approach Paul
I was trying to protect the children." She also admits
being uncomfortable with some of Paul's achievements. But
to the sacrifices the couple, especially Woodward, have made, their partnership has endured and is an example
others to follow.