說到Paul Newman,
原本的處女作可能是1955年上映的East of Eden[天倫夢覺]，可惜敗給James Dean詹姆士狄恩，才會跑去演The Silver Chalice[聖杯]這種OX片....

imdb記載了部份試鏡資料：
James Dean and Paul Newman were filmed together in a crude screen test in New York that still exists, according to Dean biographer David Dalton in "The Mutant King" (1974). In the screen test, Newman is quite cool and stares straight ahead while Dean is more animated, and is flipping something up and down in and out of his hand like George Raft and his nickel in Scarface (1932). When Dean is asked what the object is, he admits that it is a switchblade, the premier symbol of the juvenile delinquent menace much feared in the 1950s.

後來Paul Newman靠著Somebody Up There Likes Me[回頭是岸]翻身，沒想到這個角色原本也是屬意由James Dean出演，但命運的作弄令人不勝唏噓，James Dean不幸車禍身亡...