Patricia Neal (1926-2010) she was a hell of a good actress

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She was wonderful in films like THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, HUD (an Oscar), THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES (another oscar nomination and a comeback after a long climb back from a severe stroke) and as the original Mama Walton in THE HOMECOMING. But for me, the best film and another great performance had her promoting Lonesome Rhodes and creating a monster in Elia Kazan's A FACE IN THE CROWD (1958). RIP, Miss Neal.

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1. Glenda Jackson portrayed Patricia Neal in a TV movie, showing her

fighting spirit to recover from a stroke following the birth of her daughter.

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2. She was married to Roald Dahl and had 5 children with him...

one of whom died very young.

She was the definition of an emotional survivor.

Well played, Ms. Neal!

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4. She was married to that writer, Dahl?

Really, I didn't know that!

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6. Sez they were married for 30 years....

"During the filming of The Fountainhead (1949), Neal had an affair with her married co-star, Gary Cooper, whom she had met in 1947 when she was 21 and he was 46. By 1950, Cooper's wife, Veronica, had found out about the relationship and sent Neal a telegram demanding they end it. Neal became pregnant by Cooper, but he persuaded her to have an abortion.<4>

The affair ended, but not before Cooper's daughter, Maria (now Maria Cooper Janis, born 1937), spat at Neal in public.<5> Years after Cooper's death, Maria and her mother Veronica reconciled with Neal.

Neal met British writer Roald Dahl at a dinner party hosted by Lillian Hellman in 1951. They married on July 2, 1953, at Trinity Church in New York. In 1961 and 1962, the couple suffered through grievous injury to one child and the death of another. Their son Theo's carriage was hit by a taxi when he was just four months old, and their daughter, Olivia, died from measles encephalitis. The marriage produced five children:<2> Olivia Twenty (April 20, 1955 – November 17, 1962); Chantal Tessa Sophia (b. 1957); Theo Matthew (b. 1960); Ophelia Magdalena (b.1964); and Lucy Neal (b. 1965).

While pregnant in 1965, Neal suffered three-burst cerebral aneurysms, and was in a coma for three weeks. Dahl directed her rehabilitation and she subsequently relearned to walk and talk ("I think I'm just stubborn, that's all"). On August 4, 1965, she gave birth to a healthy daughter, Lucy.

Neal and Dahl's 30-year marriage ended in divorce in 1983 after Dahl's affair with Neal's friend, Felicity Crosland.<6>"


I've read that she remained friends with her ex-husband and her old friend after
they married....

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7. Her life was really wrought with drama!

WOw, thanks for the info.

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3. I so loved her

What a presence. What a voice.

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5. My Dad always really loved her.

She had a spunky sex appeal. I keep hearing that voice!

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8. Don't forget The Fountainhead! nt