{"product_id":"patricia-neal-an-unquiet-life-9780813123912","title":"Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe internationally acclaimed actress Patricia Neal has been a star on stage  film  and television for nearly sixty years. On Broadway she appeared in such lauded productions as Lillian Hellmans Another Part of the Forest  for which she won the very first Tony Award  and The Miracle Worker. In Hollywood she starred opposite the likes of Ronald Reagan  Gary Cooper  John Wayne  Paul Newman  Fred Astaire  and Tyrone Power in some thirty films. Neal anchored such classic pictures as The Day the Earth Stood Still  A Face in the Crowd  and Breakfast at Tiffanys  but she is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Alma Brown in Hud  which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1963. But there has been much  much more to Neals life. She was born Patsy Louise Neal on January 20  1926  in Packard  Kentucky  though she spent most of her childhood in Knoxville  Tennessee. Neal quickly gained attention for her acting abilities in high school  community  and college performances. Her early stage successes were overshadowed by the unexpected death of her father in 1944. Soon after she left New York for Hollywood in 1947  Neal became romantically involved with Gary Cooper  her married co-star in The Fountainhead  an attachment which brought them both a great deal of notoriety in the press and a great deal of heartache in their personal lives. In 1953  Neal married famed childrens author Roald Dahl  a match that would bring her five children and thirty years of dramatic ups and downs. In 1961  their son  Theo  was seriously injured in an automobile accident and required multiple neurosurgeries and years of rehabilitation; the following year their daughter  Olivia  died of measles. At the pinnacle of her screen career  Patricia Neal suffered a series of strokes which left her in a coma for twenty-one days. Variety even ran a headline erroneously stating that she had died. At the time  Neal was pregnant with her and Dahls fifth child  Lucy  who was born healthy a few months later. After a difficult recovery  Neal returned to film acting  earning a second Academy Award nomination for The Subject Was Roses. She appeared in a number of television movie roles in the 1970s and 1980s and won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Dramatic TV Movie in 1971 for her role in The Homecoming.  Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life is the first critical biography detailing the actresss impressive film career and remarkable personal life. Author Stephen Michael Shearer has conducted numerous interviews with Neal  her professional colleagues  and her intimate friends and was given access to the actresss personal papers. The result is an honest and comprehensive portrait of an accomplished woman who has lived her life with determination and bravado.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647087829045,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813123917","price":43.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813123912.jpg?v=1781688498","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/patricia-neal-an-unquiet-life-9780813123912","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}