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  Patricia Neal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patricia Neal is also the birth name of novelist, actress, and screenwriter Fannie Flagg.
Patricia Neal (born January 20, 1926) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.
In June, 2006, Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life by Stephen Michael Shearer was published by the University Press of Kentucky.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patricia_Neal   (652 words)

  
 Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal (born January 20, 1926) is an American actress.
In 1965 she suffered a series of strokes, and went through extensive rehabilitation, returnting in 1968 to star in The Subject Was Roses, for which she was again nominated for an Oscar.
Neal starred in the television movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story[?], which proved to be the pilot episode for The Waltons.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Patricia_Neal.html   (255 words)

  
 Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal was raised in Knoxville, where she appeared in school plays and by high school was spending her vacations in summer stock performances in Virginia.
The story of her post-stroke rehabilitation was made into a telefilm, The Patricia Neal Story, in 1981, with Glenda Jackson as Neal and Dirk Bogarde as Dahl.
Neal is the grandmother of British supermodel Sophie Dahl.
www.nndb.com /people/226/000042100   (505 words)

  
 Patricia Neal Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Patricia Neal (born 1926) is almost as well known for the events of her own life as she is for her career on stage and screen.
Patsy Louise ("Patricia") Neal was born in Packard, Kentucky on January 20, 1926.
Neal was a critical success and won several awards including the Donaldson Award, the Drama Critics Award and the Antoinette Perry Award.
www.bookrags.com /biography/patricia-neal   (1560 words)

  
 The Anniston Star - Patricia Neal chat will please the fans
Neal’s affair with the married Gary Cooper was one source of turmoil, and their romantic chemistry still energizes the 1949 drama The Fountainhead.
Neal says she couldn’t keep a straight face during 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still, but now she’s proud to be part of the sci-fi classic.
Neal didn’t win the Academy Award, but her strong performance announced to Hollywood that she was back after suffering three massive strokes at age 39.
www.dailyhome.com /entertainment/2004/as-tv-0628-0-4f27u4513.htm   (516 words)

  
 Patricia Neal News
Neal is in Kentucky this weekend to support a new biography, Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life by Stephen Michael Shearer [....] Sitting next to Neal yesterday, Shearer said part of his intention in writing the...
What you read is true: Patricia Neal is indeed coming to Piggott sometime next year for a 50 year celebration of the release of A Face in the...
When Stephen Michael Shearer told Patricia Neal he was writing a book about her, the Academy and Tony Award-winning actress admonished him to be honest and chronicle her life "warts and all." Shearer followed...
www.topix.net /who/patricia-neal   (680 words)

  
 Port Townsend film fest honors Patricia Neal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Patricia Neal is one of a handful of golden age Hollywood movie stars who have come to stand for more than just a screen persona.
Neal won an Oscar for her role as the housekeeper of a Texas cattle ranch in 1963's "Hud," co-starring Paul Newman.
Actress Patricia Neal, this year's special guest, will be interviewed by Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne after a showing of "Hud," the 1963 film for which she won a best actress Oscar, that begins at 6:15 p.m.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/88553_neal26.shtml?searchpagefrom=1&...   (1713 words)

  
 Heartland Inc. - People of Heartland
Patricia’s focus is overseeing the daily operations of Heartland.
Patricia also has been instrumental in the development of three Waldorf Schools and serves on the board of Watershed High, a Waldorf-methods charter high school.
Patricia and Craig have three children (last one just graduated from college!) and are just four blocks from grandsons Henri and Charlie.
www.heartlandcircle.com /index.cfm?PAGE_ID=369   (2260 words)

  
 Scripps Howard News Service
Neal is destined to win a new generation of admirers with her first theatrical feature in 10 years, "Cookie's Fortune," which could reopen some doors for the 73-year-old Academy Award-winning actress.
Neal, who was born in Kentucky and grew up in Knoxville, Tenn., hasn't been typecast as a Southerner, but she's played her share of them in her 50-year career on stage and screen.
Neal caught the acting bug when she was a girl in Knoxville.
www.shns.com /shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=PATRICIANEAL-FILM-04-06-99   (1026 words)

  
 Patricia Neal - Best Actress: MovieActors.com
Patricia Neal was born on January 20, 1926 in Packard, Kentucky.
In 1953 Patricia Neal married writer Roald Dahl in 1953 later divorced in the 1980s, Neal is Grandmother of model/actress Sophie Dahl.
Neals commitment to the rehabilitation center at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center led the Center to dedicate it in 1978 as The Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center Published in 1988 Patricia Neal's autobiography AS I AM, details her relationships with Cooper and Dahl.
www.movieactors.com /winw/w63.htm   (269 words)

  
 Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal, born in Packard, Ky., on January 20, 1926, made her film debut in Warner Bros.' John Loves Mary (1949) in a role she had narrowly missed playing on the Broadway stage.
Neal recalled in her 1988 biography As I Am that her stage success led Hollywood to come calling: "Goldwyn wanted me. Selznick wanted me. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 20th Century-Fox and Paramount wanted meÉ Warner Brothers wanted me, too, and they offered an added incentive: the lead in their newly acquired Broadway hit, John Loves Mary.
Neal recalled the magic of her first day of filming: "The main set of John Loves Mary was surrounded by a forest of lights, reflectors, crane-like sound booms and recording equipment.
alt.tcm.turner.com /MONTH_SPOTS/01/01/neal_john.htm   (352 words)

  
 The 2006 Patricia Neal Golf Classic - Patricia Neal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
"Patricia Neal, 39, last year's Oscar-winning best actress who copped five prizes for her first Broadway performance in 1947, died at midnight last night at UCLA Medical Center." This was the front-page banner headline in the February 22, 1965 issue of Variety.
Although the newspaper editors, and many others, were convinced Patricia Neal had died, she refused to let that be her fate.
Miss Neal has been tireless in her commitment to developing the center into the finest rehabilitation facility in the Southern Appalachian region.
www.covenanthealth.com /Aboutus/pnrc/golf/pngc-patneal-bio-2006.cfm   (865 words)

  
 Patricia Neal, Making The Night Stand Still (washingtonpost.com)
Neal's portrayal of anxiety and loneliness in this sequence and the rest of "Roses" seem especially authentic because three years earlier she'd survived a series of near-fatal strokes, and "Roses" marked a return to movies that many people doubted she would ever make.
Neal, 78, endured so many hard knocks along the way that you've got to be impressed she is still here to talk about them, and without apparent bitterness or resentment.
Neal became a study in courage and tenacity, and she tells the story of those years with plenty of candor but no melodrama or self-pity.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A10776-2004Jun27.html   (1206 words)

  
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She was then courted by Hollywood, and after being cast in "The Fountainhead", Neal quickly became regarded as one of the most promising actresses of the era.
"Patricia Neal" is the first critical biography detailing the actress's impressive film career, and author Stephen Michael Shearer's approach incorporates both biography and cinematic study.
Shearer has conducted numerous personal interviews with Neal and with her colleagues and friends, and the result is an honest, insightful, and comprehensive portrait of an accomplished woman who has lived her life with determination and bravado.
www.eurospan.co.uk /eurospan/display.asp?K=510000001002600&bic=ATB*&sf1=sort_date;=&st1=20060527:20061123&sort=sort_date/d&m=11&dc=11   (259 words)

  
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Patricia Neal celebrated her 80th birthday by taking part in a ribbon cutting ceremony for the center's new movie theater.
Neal spent the last several years promoting causes that help people suffering from strokes and other neurological problems.
Vivian sees how Patricia survived 40 years with her problems, giving Vivian strength to move forward when times are tough.
www.wbir.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=31480   (331 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life: Books: Stephen Michael Shearer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Screen legend Neal's life was filled with tragedies and triumphs, and Shearer unveils an impressive portrait of the actress, revered for her roles in such memorable movies as A Face in the Crowd and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Born in Kentucky in 1926, Neal began her drama studies at the age of 11 in Knoxville and was a professional by age 19, possessing a fiercely ambitious drive when she arrived on Broadway as an understudy in 1945.
I just saw Patricia Neal's superlative performance in Elia Kazan's still-amazing "A Face in the Crowd" for the first time on DVD this past week and was reminded what a searing screen presence she could be.
www.amazon.com /Patricia-Neal-Stephen-Michael-Shearer/dp/0813123917   (1696 words)

  
 Patricia Neal to receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Patricia Neal, whose leading men have included Douglas Fairbanks, Gary Cooper, John Wayne and Paul Newman, is this year's winner of the Marco Island Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Neal will be introduced and her Academy Award-winning film, Hud, in which she co-starred with Paul Newman in 1963, will be shown at 2:30 p.m.
Neal was absent from the big screen until 1956, when she won critical acclaim for A Face in the Crowd and played in Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring Audrey Hepburn.
www.bonitadailynews.com /03/10/marco/e33844a.htm   (1085 words)

  
 University Press of Kentucky
Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life is the first critical biography detailing this famous actress's impressive film career.
Shearer has conducted numerous interviews with Neal and with her colleagues and friends, and the result is an honest and comprehensive portrait of an accomplished woman who has lived her life with determination and bravado.
Neal is still a great force of nature, and Shearer's book documents all her ups, downs, traumas and triumphs."--Reuters, Washington Post, St.
www.kentuckypress.com /viewbook.cfm?Category_ID=1&Group=7&ID=1284   (600 words)

  
 Cookie's Fortune Reviewed
To put all this together, summarizing what will be no secret to you soon into the movie, Holly Springs comes to life in the suicide of Cookie Orcutt, a role with which Patricia Neal stakes her claim to this movie in just a few minutes on screen.
This performance made even more of an impression upon me when I later found out that this was her return to the screen after a series of strokes in 1966 that almost killed her and left her paralyzed and mute for some time.
Her name is immortalized on the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center in her hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee.
www.peanut.org /users/mike/text/Cookie.htm   (1254 words)

  
 Port Townsend film fest honors Patricia Neal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
As the survivor of devastating strokes at the peak of her career, and for her tireless advocacy for Knoxville's Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, she's been given a presidential citation, the Woman's International Center's Living Legacy Award, and numerous other honors.
Then, in 1960, the first of a string of tragedies struck when her 4-month-old son, Theo, was hit and severely injured by a taxi on a New York street while in his carriage.
It was shortly after the Oscar -- at age 39, finally at the top of the movie-star A list and pregnant with her fifth child -- that she suffered the three strokes that left her paralyzed on one side, unable to speak or even recall anyone's name.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/88553_neal26.shtml?searchpagefrom=1&;searchdiff=952   (1713 words)

  
 Celebrity Page, Celebrity addresses, scans, photos, pictures
Patricia Neal and Keir Dullea are both actors of stature, talent, gravitas.
In 1963, Neal won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Hud, but was unable to attend the telecast that year.
In February, 1965, Neal suffered three crippling strokes while pregnant with her daughter Lucy, leaving her unable to walk and even speak for a time.
www.mailhollywood.com /cel.php?viewCel=8549   (1097 words)

  
 Stand for Neal: An in-depth interview with 2004 Theater Hall of Fame honoree Patricia Neal. Feature on TheaterMania.com
The actress downplays the tragedies in her life, including the death at age eight of her firstborn, Olivia; her son Theo's brain injury, which occurred when his pram was struck by a Manhattan taxi; the three strokes in 1965 that nearly claimed her life; and her divorce from writer Roald Dahl after a 30-year marriage.
Neal's awards room is adorned with numerous plaques, trophies, and photographs; her 1963 Best Actress Oscar for Hud, two Best Actress British Academy Awards (Hud, In Harm's Way), and her Tony Award, "a compact with P.N. engraved on it.
Neal recalls that Bankhead "came to see me and said, 'Dah-ling, you were as good as I was -- and if I said you were half as good, it would have been a hell of a compliment!'" Neal remembers that, when she signed for Forest, "The third act was not yet written.
www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=4316   (2127 words)

  
 Patricia Neal
When Academy Award winning actress Patricia Neal suffered three strokes while only 39, she learned quickly the importance of having proper rehabilitative care.
Neal is a testament to the power of rehabilitation.
Neal is today in her seventies, an advocate for those who have suffered paralysis.
www.gotohoroscope.com /celebrities/gemini/54.html   (109 words)

  
 Patricia Neal Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Neal chose Broadway over Hollywood, appearing in "A Roomful of Roses" (1955) and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1956) before opening her second and richest cinematic phase dramatically with Elia Kazan's acid portrait of political demagoguery, "A Face in the Crowd" (1957), in which her character turned the tables on Andy Griffith's power-crazed bumpkin.
Neal's courage had carried through other personal tragedies, the death of her daughter Olivia due to measles at age 13 and the eight brain operations her only son required after being hit by a taxi as a baby.
The CBS TV-movie "The Patricia Neal Story" (1981) dramatized her remarkable recovery from her disabilities (with Glenda Jackson portraying her), and she has remained an inspiration for bravely conquering tremendous obstacles.
www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/193240   (1138 words)

  
 SHSI Press Release
The art work was inspired by a photograph of Neal from the 1963 film, Hud, with Paul Newman, the movie for which she received an Academy Award for best actress.
Neal, raised in Knoxville, Tenn., overcame personal tragedies on her rise to stardom.
By 1968, Neal made a triumphant return to the silver screen in The Subject was Roses, for which she received an Academy Award nomination.
www.iowahistory.org /contacts/news_release/2006/patricia-neal.htm   (822 words)

  
 Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal was born Patsy Louise Neal on January 20th, 1926, in Packard, Kentucky.
Patricia married Roald Dahl (1916-1990) on 2 July 1953 and divorced him in 1983.
In the early 1960's she had a stroke in which a TV movie "The Patricia Neal Story", was based on her struggle back from that debilitating stroke.
www.angelfire.com /tv/homecoming/neal.html   (427 words)

  
 Patricia Neal Trivia -- notstarring.com
According to her autobiography, Patricia Neal said "no" to a major role because of personal problems in her life at the time.
Patricia Neal turned down the lead part because the producers wouldn't meet her salary request.
Patricia Neal didn't get the lead role, despite her success in a London stage version--remained very bitter about this for years afterward.
www.notstarring.com /actors/neal-patricia   (262 words)

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