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Posted: Aug 9, 2010 - 9:03am

RIP and thank you. {#Cheers}

Posted: Aug 9, 2010 - 8:30am

cc_rider wrote:

Just couldn't resist, could you?

Hud you live with yourself? You're just a fountainhead of wordplay...

Nah, I'm just another face in the crowd

Posted: Aug 9, 2010 - 8:16am

hippiechick wrote:

Her stroke was after Hud, when she was pregnant. Dahl directed her rehabilitation so that she could be well enough to act again. They suffered terrible tragedies, losing 1 child to measles, and having another severely injured in an accident with a taxi. She had been offered the part of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, but turned it down. She and Dahl got divorced after 30 yrs of marriage because he was having a dahlliance with one of her friends.

Just couldn't resist, could you?

Hud you live with yourself? You're just a fountainhead of wordplay...

Posted: Aug 9, 2010 - 8:09am

cc_rider wrote:

1) She was married to Roald Dahl? I had no idea.

2) She had a stroke before 'Hud'? I would never have guessed, but now I've gotta watch it again and see if there are any signs. Wow.

Her stroke was after Hud, when she was pregnant. Dahl directed her rehabilitation so that she could be well enough to act again. They suffered terrible tragedies, losing 1 child to measles, and having another severely injured in an accident with a taxi. She had been offered the part of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, but turned it down. She and Dahl got divorced after 30 yrs of marriage because he was having a dahlliance with one of her friends.

Posted: Aug 9, 2010 - 7:57am

hippiechick wrote:

Her husband, author Roald Dahl , played a big part in encouraging her to go back to work after her stroke.

1) She was married to Roald Dahl? I had no idea.

2) She had a stroke before 'Hud'? I would never have guessed, but now I've gotta watch it again and see if there are any signs. Wow.

Posted: Aug 9, 2010 - 7:55am

cc_rider wrote:

Exactly what I was going to post. She was amazing, wasn't she?

Her husband, author Roald Dahl , played a big part in encouraging her to go back to work after her stroke.

Posted: Aug 9, 2010 - 7:52am

samiyam wrote:

I loved her in Hud.

Exactly what I was going to post. She was amazing, wasn't she?

Posted: Aug 9, 2010 - 7:46am

Proclivities wrote:

"A very stylish girl." RIP Patricia Neal. {#Cheers}

Indeed.

RIP

Posted: Aug 9, 2010 - 6:33am

Posted: Aug 9, 2010 - 6:17am

And here I thought she'd passed on years ago...... {#Think}

A fine actress, for sure. {#Cheers}

Posted: Aug 9, 2010 - 6:12am

donna_birichina wrote:

As much as I love Holly Golightly, more and more it is Patricia Neal as Paul's, ahem, patron that strikes me the most. So worldly and mature and sad.

"A very stylish girl." RIP Patricia Neal. {#Cheers}

Posted: Aug 9, 2010 - 6:03am

As much as I love Holly Golightly, more and more it is Patricia Neal as Paul's, ahem, patron that strikes me the most. So worldly and mature and sad.

Posted: Aug 8, 2010 - 11:13pm

I loved her in Hud.

Posted: Aug 8, 2010 - 11:08pm

My mom always made a big deal about how Ms. Neal had lost her ability to speak, but came back to continue being an actress. Here's a bit of her bio:

A leading lady of American plays and film, Neal studied drama in college and worked as a model before debuting on Broadway in The Voice of the Turtle (1946). Her performance in the play Another Part of the Forest got the attention of Hollywood, and she made her screen debut in the light farce "John Loves Mary" (1949); that same year she was impressive in "The Fountainhead" opposite "Gary Cooper", whom she later said was the great love of her life. After marrying British writer "Roald Dahl" in 1953 she disappeared from the screen for several years, returning in 1957's "A Face in the Crowd", after which she was more selective in choosing her film roles. For her performance in "Hud" (1963) she won the "Best Actress" Oscar. In 1965 she suffered a massive series of strokes that left her confined to a wheelchair, semi-paralyzed and nearly unable to speak; she made a remarkable recovery over several years, returning to the screen inThe Subject Was Roses (1968), for which she received another "Best Actress" Oscar nomination. Also in 1968, she was presented by President Johnson with the "Heart of the Year" Award. Neal underwent two other tragedies in her life: as a baby, one of her children was hit by a cab and underwent eight brain operations, and another died of measles at age 13. Later in life, after divorcing Dahl, she underwent a much-publicized conversion to "Born Again" Christianity and published an autobiography, As I Am.