She was Gary Cooper's mistress, she was Roald Dahl's wife, and the
movies they could have a second Greta Garbo. But Hollywood has never
understood Patricia Neal. Now the actress at the age of 84 years died.
A phenomenon like from another world, shocking, grotesque playful,
surreal. With slow steps, and determination between Reluctantly, the
elegant young woman, the ramp goes down to the quarry, at the foot of
the dust and sweat-covered men, with their striking drills at work.
The white scarf fluttering in the gusts of wind in her hand she holds
the white hat in front of the chest. Her gaze falls, between two stone
blocks on the athletic man who wanders from the vibrating drill in his
hand to his face. He wipes with his free arm over his forehead, is now
also be looking at it. Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper in The
Fountainhead, the mechanics of desire, so clearly staged, with all the
gentle, aggressive, masochistic moments, as only the dream factory
there. Neal's view lies in surprise and pleasure and any idea how this
man has to be unapproachable.
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She dreamed early on of a great career, in "John Loves Mary" played
Patricia Neal at the site of the future U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
The Fountainhead / On The Fountainhead, 1949, is the great erratic
block from the Hollywood end of the forties, after the novel by Ayn
Rand, the prophet of radical American individualism, directed by King
Vidor, the elemental force of American constructivists. Patricia Neal,
the film shows more clearly than would have been in Hollywood can go
there, where Garbo stopped in the early forties. But Hollywood has
never understood Neal, it was misplaced in romances and comedies, plus
a few respectable Melos, Bright Leaf, starring Gary Cooper once again,
as a tobacco farmer, or The Day the Earth Stood Still.
The youth had wanted to Patricia Neal was born on Jan 26, 1926 in the
mining town of Packard, Kentucky, on the stage, with twelve for the
first time she had acting lessons, a Christmas present from the
parents. In 1945 she moved to New York, Eugene O'Neill and Lillian
Hellman, they promoted. She cleared at the big theater prices, and
fast Hollywood agents were there, a seven-year contract with Warner.
With Gary Cooper had an affair to remember, an unforgettable love:
"One of the most beautiful things that ever happened to me in my
life," she wrote in her 1988 autobiography. But Cooper was married, he
would not sacrifice the love of marriage. Neal married in 1953 the
young Royal Air Force officer Roald Dahl, it allows their fees by the
development as a writer of macabre short stories first, then
world-famous children's books. It is said that she was the wife of
world-famous Fantastic Mr. Fox. They had five children, one died of
measles at seven, was the son Theo, brain damaged after a car
accident.
Elia Kazan has supported her return to Broadway and then turned to her
A Face in the Crowd, starring Paul Newman in Hud in 1963 she starred
as ranch housekeeper. Unglamorous and down to earth, a little grumpy
she pottered around with dough and did the washing up, a cigarette
wedged between his lips - she won an Oscar for it. In February 1965,
on the first day of filming of John Ford's Seven Women, she had a
stroke, two more followed in the hospital, she was paralyzed on the
right side, had lost vision and language. She was 39 years old.
Roald Dahl has brought them back to life by iron training, "Roald the
slave driver, Roald the bastard, Roald the Rotten, as I called him
again and again." Roald has cheated them later with one of her
friends, In 1983 the divorce. Was one of her last films in the title
role in Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune, 1999. One of the beautiful
little community late films by Altman, so unremarkable, so close. One
of my fondest memories, said Neal was the Barter Theater in Abingdon,
Virginia. That was the Depression era, no one had money and the people
came to the idea and paid with food. Patricia Neal is on Sunday at the
age of 84 years in Edgartown, Massachusetts died.
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