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Click on the title to get the juice... | Somebody Up There Likes Me | |
| The best available homevideo format is DVD, packaged as part of The Paul Newman Collection. DVD aspect ratio unconfirmed. The Original Aspect Ratio of the film is 1.75:1. | ||
| Directed by Robert Wise, who would later direct Steve in The Sand Pebbles. Somebody Up There Likes Me is a biopic of the early years of real life World Middleweight Champion Boxer Rocky Graziano. Paul Newman stars as Graziano, and Pier Angeli plays his wife Norma Graziano. | ||
| Steve McQueen's debut film | ||
Steve as Fidel (wielding a knife)![]() Screencap provided by Daniel Smague. |
This was Steve's first acting role in a big screen film (apart from Girl On The Run , in which he was simply a background extra). He played the character of 'Fidel', and his short scene involved Fidel violently wielding a knife. | |
| Trivia | ||
| The part of Graziano was originally written for James Dean, but when Dean died in a car accident a few
weeks before filming, Newman replaced him. Steve's first wife Neile thought that he (Steve) was terrible in the part. Steve's performance in this film was uncredited, and it was a 'bit part' that payed 19 dollars a day. 18 years later he would recieve equal co-star billing with Newman in The Towering Inferno and earn the biggest movie pay cheque in history (12 Million Dollars). | ||
Newman and Angeli![]() | ||