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Overview
But there was much more to Neal's life. She was born in Packard, Kentucky, though she spent most of her childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee. For a time, Neal became romantically involved with Gary Cooper, her married costar in The Fountainhead. In 1953, Neal wed famed children's author Roald Dahl, a match that would bring her five children and thirty years of dramatic ups and downs. At the pinnacle of her screen career, Neal suffered a series of strokes which left her in a coma for twenty-one days, and Variety even ran a headline erroneously stating that she had died. After a difficult recovery, Neal returned to film acting, earning a second Academy Award nomination for The Subject Was Roses (1968). She appeared in several television movie roles in the 1970s and 1980s and won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Dramatic TV Movie in 1971 for The Homecoming.
Adapted as a major motion picture (filmed as An Unquiet Life) starring Hugh Bonneville, Keeley Hawes, and Sam Heughan, Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life is the first critical biography detailing the actress's impressive film career and remarkable personal life. Author Stephen Michael Shearer conducted numerous interviews with Neal, her professional colleagues, and her intimate friends and was given access to the actress's personal papers. The result is an honest and comprehensive portrait of an accomplished woman who lived her life with determination and bravado.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780813180717 |
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Publisher: | University Press of Kentucky |
Publication date: | 03/16/2021 |
Edition description: | updated and expanded edition |
Pages: | 520 |
Sales rank: | 1,121,504 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d) |
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Table of Contents
A Note from Kirk DouglasPreface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Beginnings
Chapter 2: Progress
Chapter 3: Broadway
Chapter 4: Stock
Chapter 5: Warner Brothers
Chapter 6: Gary Cooper
Chapter 7: London
Chapter 8: Hollywood
Chapter 9: Tinseltown
Chapter 10: 20th Century-Fox
Chapter 11: Purgatory
Chapter 12: New York
Chapter 13: Roald Dahl
Chapter 14: Marriage
Chapter 15: England
Chapter 16: Career
Chapter 17: Triumph
Chapter 18: Tempest
Chapter 19: Tragedy
Chapter 20: Stardom
Chapter 21: Illness
Chapter 22: Comeback
Chapter 23: Roses
Chapter 24: Television
Chapter 25: Independence
Chapter 26: Divorce
Chatper 27: Serenity
Chapter 28: Legacy
Appendix
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index