Newman & Eastwood: The Summer of ‘69

Newman & Eastwood: The Summer of ‘69

I stumbled (purely by accident) across this little ad the other day, from a Universal pairing during the Summer of 1969. Starring Paul Newman and Clint on the same bill, I certainly would have paid a couple of bucks to catch this one. 

Again, it’s another strange pairing, which served very little purpose other than to promote two of Universal’s superstars. 

Winning was the latest of the two movies, a 1969 drama / sports film directed by James Goldstone and starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Robert Wagner. The film is about a race car driver who aspires to win the Indianapolis 500. A number of race car drivers and people associated with racing appear in the film, including Bobby Unser, Tony Hulman, Bobby Grim, Dan Gurney, Roger McCluskey, and Bruce Walkup.

Coogan's Bluff was made the previous year, and for me was certainly the better movie.

I found this small ad for The Washington Theatre, Royal Oak, Michigan – which sadly was just made up of text – we couldn’t have that, so I took the opportunity to have a play, and mock it up a little…

Below: The Ad in its original form

Below: The Ad re-invented