Patricia Neal Articles

Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire (top); Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair in Delbert Mann’s Marty (middle) Moguls & Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood: The Attack of the Small Screens is the next chapter of Turner Classic Movies‘ seven-part Moguls & Movie Stars documentary, which will be shown twice tonight, at 5 and 8 p.m. PT. The appropriately titled "The [...]

Patricia Neal at her melodramatic-est with on-screen and off-screen lover Gary Cooper in King Vidor’s over-the-top The Fountainhead(1949), based on Ayn Rand’s novel Patricia Neal: An Appreciation – Part I Several years later, I got myself a copy of Neal’s autobiography (actually written by Richard DeNeut), As I Am, which had been published in the late ’80s. I became enthralled. I couldn’t put the book [...]

Patricia Neal in her two best-known movies: Robert Wise’s sci-fier The Day the Earth Stood Still, with Gort (Lock Martin) and Michael Rennie (top); Martin Ritt’s family drama/social commentary Hud, with Paul Newman (bottom) Patricia Neal, who died of lung cancer on Sunday, became one of my favorite movie performers when I was a little kid and saw her in — inevitably — The Day [...]

Patricia Neal, Best Actress Oscar winner for her superb performance in Martin Ritt’s 1963 drama Hud (right, with Paul Newman), died from lung cancer at her home in Martha’s Vineyard on Sunday, Aug. 8. She was 84. Among Neal’s most important film roles are those in King Vidor’s over-the-top melodrama The Fountainhead (1949), opposite Gary Cooper, with whom the actress had a passionate affair; Robert [...]