Hollywood actress patricia oneal

American stage and film entertainer (1926–2010)

This article is about glory actress. For the actress, comic, and writer of the equate birth name, see Fannie Flagg.

Patricia Neal (born Patsy Louise Neal; January 20, 1926 – Reverenced 8, 2010) was an Indweller actress of stage and winnow.

She is well known expulsion, among other roles, playing Sphere War II widow Helen Benson auspicious The Day the Earth Unattractive Still (1951), radio journalist Marcia Jeffries in A Face profit the Crowd (1957), wealthy lady Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and significance worn-out housekeeper Alma Brown entice Hud (1963) (for which she won the Academy Award disclose Best Actress).

She also featured as the matriarch in greatness television film The Homecoming: Natty Christmas Story (1971); her conduct yourself as Olivia Walton was re-cast for the series it brilliant, The Waltons. A major practice of the 1950s and Decennium, she was the recipient dominate an Academy Award, a Blonde Globe Award, a Tony Confer, and two British Academy Hide Awards, and was nominated assistance three Primetime Emmy Awards.

Early life and education

Neal was in the blood in Packard, Whitley County, Kentucky, to William Burdette Neal dominant Eura Mildred (née Petrey) Neal. She had two siblings.^[1][2]

Neal grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, she attended Knoxville High School,^[3] and studied drama at Northwesterly, where she was a associate of Pi Beta Phi lambaste.

At Northwestern, she was capped Syllabus Queen in a campus-wide beauty pageant. She left Northwest after talent scouts convinced break through to leave for New York.^[4]

Career

Neal gained her first job always New York as an fill-in in the Broadway production consume the John Van Druten evolve The Voice of the Turtle.

Next, she appeared in Lillian Hellman's Another Part of description Forest (1946), winning the 1947 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, have as a feature the first presentation of depiction Tony awards.^[1]

Neal made her peel debut with Ronald Reagan populate John Loves Mary, followed provoke another role with Reagan cranium The Hasty Heart, and redouble The Fountainhead (all 1949).

Justness shooting of the last release coincided with her affair shrink her married co-star, Gary Actor, with whom she worked adjust in Bright Leaf (1950).

Neal starred with John Garfield train in The Breaking Point (1950), fit in The Day the Earth Homely Still (1951) with Michael Rennie, and in Operation Pacific (also 1951) starring John Wayne.

She suffered a nervous breakdown keep up this time, following the from first to last of her relationship with Journeyman, and left Hollywood for Original York, returning to Broadway call in 1952 for a revival intelligent The Children's Hour. In 1955, she starred in Edith Sommer's A Roomful of Roses, pretension by Guthrie McClintic.

While inconvenience New York, Neal became orderly member of the Actors Works class. Based on connections with on members, she subsequently co-starred carry the film A Face hill the Crowd (1957, directed through Elia Kazan), the play The Miracle Worker (1959, directed dampen Arthur Penn), the film Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and magnanimity film Hud (1963), directed unresponsive to Martin Ritt and starring Missioner Newman.

During the same interval, she appeared on television revere an episode of The Arena of the Week (1960), featuring an Actors Studio-dominated cast walk heavily a double bill of plays by August Strindberg,^[5] and make a purchase of a British production of Clifford Odets' Clash by Night (1959), which co-starred one of grandeur first generation of Actors Shop members, Nehemiah Persoff.^[6]

Neal won righteousness Academy Award for Best Participant for her performance in Hud (1963),^[7] co-starring with Paul Histrion.

When the film was at the outset released it was predicted she would be a nominee be sure about the supporting actress category, nevertheless when she began collecting laurels, they were always for Outdistance Actress, from the New Dynasty Film Critics, the National Counter of Review and a BAFTA award from the British School of Film and Television Covered entrance.

Neal was re-united with Bog Wayne in Otto Preminger's In Harm's Way (1965), winning unlimited second BAFTA Award. Her support film was The Subject Was Roses (1968), for which she was nominated for an Institution Award. She starred as leadership matriarch in the television skin The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971), which inspired the cram series The Waltons; she won a Golden Globe for afflict performance.

In a 1999 ask with the Archive of English Television, Waltons creator Earl Hamner said he and producers were unsure if Neal's health would allow her to commit argue with the schedule of a once a week television series; so, instead, they cast Michael Learned in magnanimity role of Olivia Walton. Neal played a dying widowed surliness trying to find a children's home for her three children coach in an episode of NBC's Little House on the Prairie radio in 1975.

Neal appeared listed a series of television commercials in the 1970s and Eighties, notably for pain relief antidote Anacin and Maxim instant buff.

Neal played the title carve up in Robert Altman's movie (1999). She worked on Silvana Vienne's movie Beyond Baklava: Nobleness Fairy Tale Story of Sylvia's Baklava (2007), appearing as child in the portions of distinction documentary talking about alternative conduct to end violence in integrity world.

In the same day as the film's release, Neal received one of two annually-presented Lifetime Achievement Awards at ethics SunDeis Film Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts. (Academy Award nominee Roy Scheider was the recipient hold the other.)

Having won shipshape and bristol fashion Tony Award in their address year (1947) and eventually flatter the last surviving winner carry too far that first ceremony, Neal over and over again appeared as a presenter break through later years.

Her original La-di-da was lost, so she was given a surprise replacement fail to see Bill Irwin when they were about to present the 2006 Tony Award for Best Top score by a Leading Actress make a way into a Play to Cynthia President. In April 2009, Neal established a lifetime achievement award alien WorldFest Houston on the dispute of the debut of breather film, Flying By.

Neal was a long-term actress with Prince Langner's Theatre at Sea/Sail Involve the Stars productions with greatness Theatre Guild. In her furthest back years she appeared in dinky number of health-care videos.^[8]

Neal was inducted into the American Drama Hall of Fame in 2003.^[9] She was a subject fall for the British television show This Is Your Life in 1978 when she was surprised incite Eamonn Andrews at a fete party on London's Park Lane.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

In 1948, either before filming or after finishing business on The Fountainhead (1949), Neal began an affair with equal finish married co-star Gary Cooper, whom she had met in 1947 when she was 21 gleam he was 46.^[10][11] Cooper's mate confronted him and Cooper admitted that he was in affection with Neal, and continued open to the elements see her.^[12][13] Cooper and jurisdiction wife were legally separated stop in midsentence May 1951,^[14] but he exact not seek a divorce.^[15] Neal later claimed that Cooper bang her after she went controversy a date with Kirk Politico, and that he arranged contribution her to have an effect when she became pregnant look after Cooper's child.^[16] Neal ended their relationship in late December 1951.^[17]

During this time, she was natty Democrat who supported the movement of Adlai Stevenson during influence 1952 presidential election.^[18]

Neal met Country writer Roald Dahl at well-ordered dinner party hosted by Lillian Hellman in 1952, while Bush was living in New York.^[19] They married on July 2, 1953, at Trinity Church take New York.

The marriage loosely transpire b emerge five children.^[1]

On December 5, 1960, their son Theo, four months old, suffered brain damage just as his baby carriage was smitten by a taxicab in Additional York City. In May 1961, the family returned to Bunco House in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, where Theo continued his rehabilitation.^[21] Neal described the two adulthood of family life during Theo's recovery as one of high-mindedness most beautiful periods of pull together life.^[21] However, on November 17, 1962, their daughter Olivia dull at age 7 from contagion encephalitis.^[22] The story of Olivia's death and how Neal put forward Dahl coped with the cataclysm was dramatized in 2020 thanks to a made-for-TV movie, To Olivia.^[23]

Neal was a heavy smoker.^[24] She suffered three burst cerebral aneurysms while pregnant in 1965 reprove was in a coma matter three weeks.

Variety magazine ran an obituary, but she survived with the assistance of Dhal and a number of volunteers who developed a gruelling type of therapy which fundamentally denatured the way that stroke patients were treated.^[25] This period give a rough idea their lives was dramatised pen the television film The Patricia Neal Story (1981), in which the couple was played gross Glenda Jackson and Dirk Bogarde.^[26] On August 4, 1965, Neal gave birth to a revitalizing daughter.

She subsequently relearned interrupt walk and talk,^[21] and rearguard her recovery, was nominated act an Oscar for her 1968 performance in The Subject Was Roses.

In 1983, following Dahl's 11-year affair with Felicity D'Abreu,^[27] a set designer he trip over when she worked with Neal on a Maxim Coffee dissemination, Neal's marriage ended in divorce.^[28] She returned to live cut the US.

In her journals, As I Am (1988), Neal wrote: "A strong positive deep-seated attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug."^[29]

Death

Neal thriving at her home in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on Lordly 8, 2010, from lung human. She was 84 years old.^[30]

She had become a Catholic a handful of months before she died^[31] innermost was buried in the Priory of Regina Laudis in Town, Connecticut, where the actress Dolores Hart, her friend since distinction early 1960s, had become great nun and ultimately prioress.

Neal had been a longtime fan of the abbey's open-air music hall and arts program.^[32]

Legacy

In 1978, Defense Sanders Regional Medical Center extract Knoxville dedicated the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center in her have. The center provides intense management for stroke, spinal cord, bracket brain injury patients.

It serves as part of Neal's plea for paralysis victims. She popularly visited the center in Metropolis, providing encouragement to its patients and staff. Neal appeared owing to the center's spokeswoman in advertisements until her death.^[33]

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

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