Paris Blues

…Ritt found greater success with Paris Blues (1961). Set in France, with a sound track steeped in the music of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, it tells the story of expatriate American jazzmen played by Newman and Poitier, who, respectively, romance tourists played by Woodward and Diahann Carroll. Ernest Hemingway’s…

…From the Terrace (1960), and Paris Blues (1961) and (opposite Marlon Brando) Sidney Lumet’s The Fugitive Kind (1960). After a two-year hiatus to care for her two young daughters, Woodward returned to Hollywood in 1963, but she did not have another success until Rachel, Rachel (1968), which was Newman’s directorial…