Newman once attributed their lasting union to "correct amounts of lust and respect."
He offered an oft-quoted response when asked in Playboy magazine about the temptations of other women: "I have steak at home. Why go out for hamburger?"
The couple met and fell in love while Newman made his 1953 Broadway debut in William Inge's "Picnic," in which Woodward was an understudy. Five years later, shortly after Newman and his first wife divorced, he married the petite blond in a Las Vegas civil ceremony.
The couple moved into an 18th-century Connecticut farmhouse, a decision that Woodward later said solidified their marriage. "We were never Hollywood people," the Oscar-winning actress told the Daily News in 2001. "We just liked it better here. It also probably helps that we always enjoyed each other's company."
When Woodward returned to Sarah Lawrence College to earn her degree at age 60, she graduated with youngest daughter Clea. Newman marked the occasion by delivering the commencement address.
"Joanne," Newman once said, "is one of the last of the great broads."
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