Tougher than any of the characters she's played, Patricia Neal has endured much tragedy (including the death of a child). Born Jan. 20, 1926, in Packard, Ky., Neal studied drama at Northwestern University before making her Broadway debut in 1946. The next year she won a Tony for her turn in "Another Part of the Forest."With her wide cheekbones and even wider grin, Neal was a natural for the big screen, and in 1949, she portrayed an emotionally repressed heiress opposite Gary Cooper in The Fountainhead. In the ensuing years, she would alternate between stage and screen, appearing in Breakfast at Tiffany's and earning a Best Actress Oscar for Hud (1963).
Neal suffered a series of strokes in 1965 that left her partially paralyzed. Making a remarkable recovery, she returned to Oscar-nominated form in 1968's The Subject Was Roses. After a battle with lung cancer, she passed away Aug. 8, 2010.
The FountainheadGary Cooper stoically portrays uncompromising architect Howard Roark, a man obedient solely to his own individuality and unfettered expression, in this adaptation of Ayn Rand's best-selling philosophical allegory. Roark's life is depicted as a series of trials in which he must defend his beliefs and... Read More
The Day the Earth Stood StillA humanoid envoy (Michael Rennie) from another world lands in Washington, D.C., with a warning to Earth's people to cease their violent behavior. But panic erupts when a nervous soldier shoots the messenger, and his robot companion tries to destroy the capital. A sci-fi hallmark that offers wry... Read More
Operation PacificLt. Cmdr. Duke E. Gifford (John Wayne) still carries a torch for his ex-wife, Navy nurse Mary (Patricia Neal), but his efforts to win her over take a backseat to malfunctions with his submarine, the USS Thunderfish, whose torpedoes are failing to fire. Further complicating matters is Mary's... Read More
A Face in the CrowdElia Kazan's masterpiece proves that celebrity isn't all it's cracked up to be. When talent scout Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) spots drifter Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes (Andy Griffith) and makes him a superstar, he gets a taste of the good life. But his hunger for klieg lights, fed by run-ins with... Read More
The Hasty HeartAt the end of the war, Scottish Cpl. Lachlan MacLachlan (Richard Todd) is detained in a military hospital on account of a lower-back wound. Unaware that his injury is fatal, the prickly patient is befriended by an American GI (Ronald Reagan) and a compassionate nurse who are adamant about hiding the... Read More
Flying By (2008) | PG-13 | |
NR | ||
Broadway: The Golden Age (2004) | NR | |
Bright Leaves (2003) | NR | |
The Face: Jesus in Art (2001) | NR | |
Cookie's Fortune (1999) | PG-13 | |
From Russia to Hollywood (1999) From Russia To Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff | NR | |
Heidi (1993) | G | |
An Unremarkable Life (1989) | PG | |
Ghost Story (1981) | R | |
NR | ||
TV-PG | ||
The Subject Was Roses (1968) | UR | |
In Harm's Way (1965) | NR | |
Hud (1963) | NR | |
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) | G | |
A Face in the Crowd (1957) | NR | |
Stranger from Venus (1954) | NR | |
Operation Pacific (1951) | NR | |
G | ||
The Fountainhead (1949) | NR | |
The Hasty Heart (1949) | NR | |
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