It's long been rumored that "Cool Hand Luke" star Paul Newman ate 50 eggs while filming the picture, but did this really happen?

Paul Newman cemented his statue as a Hollywood legend playing Luke Jackson, a Florida prison camp inmate who refuses to be broken, in Cool Hand Luke. In this pivotal scene from the Oscar winning 1967 ...

Paul Newman in the movie Cool Hand Luke with hard boiled eggs arranged in front of him and someone peeling one to the right - Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images After a decades-long career on the ...

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