Robert Redford the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salaries from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "Downhill Racer", Redford bought an entire ski area on the east side of Mount Timpanogos northeast of Provo, Utah, called "Timp Haven", which was renamed "Sundance". Redford's wife Lola was from Utah and they had built a home in the area in 1963. Portions of the movie "Jeremiah Johnson" (1972), a film which is both one of Redford's favorites and one that has heavily influenced him, were shot near the ski area. The Sundance Film Festival caters to independent filmmakers in
Paul Newman the set in 1957 (they had first met in 1953). He won Best Actor at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for this film. He had a supporting role in the Coen brothers' first big-budget production, 1994's "The Hudsucker Proxy". Newman starred in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)", "The Young Philadelphians" (1959), "Exodus" (1960), "From the Terrace", (1960), "The Hustler" (1961), "Hud" (1963), Torn Curtain (1966), "Harper" (1966), "Hombre" (1967), "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), "The Towering Inferno" (1974), "Slap Shot" (1977), "Absence of Malice" (1981) and "The Verdict" (1982). He teamed with fellow actor Robert Redford and director George