Patricia Neal...OMG

How come no one on this thread even mentioned her greatest role as Alma in Hud? The one she won best actress for. That role gave me one of my favorite lines "I've done my time with one cold hearted bastard, I'm not looking for another." If you think she was beautiful in this, then you should see her in Fountainhead, where she was only 22. The bad Karmna she acquired during her affair with Cooper, she taunted Rocky repeatedly that she was going to ultimately get him and she should give him up, certainly paid her back in later life. However, it didn't happen that way and when Rocky asked Cooper if he wanted a divorce, he said no. Neal went on to marry the writer Roald Dahl, and as what goes around comes around, she caught him having an affair with her best friend but this time, there was no reconciliation and they divorced. Besides the stroke that would probably have killed anyone else, she had other tragedies. She lost a daughter to measles when she was 7 and an infant son was hit by a taxi in New York in his pram. He survived with terrific injuries.

I was amazed as well. She was great, and so gorgeous!


"I'll book you. I'll book you on something. I'll find something in the book to book you on."

Patricia Neal was in a class all by herself. As well as blowing us away with her film performances there are 2 tv shows were she knocked it out of the park.


The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)-the first made-for-tv movie about The Waltons that was a pilot for the tv show. She was not offered the tv role because of her bad health when the movie was shot.

Little House on the Prarie-in a 2 part episode from 1975 played a dying mother who makes Charles Ingalls promise to find homes for her children.


Just for the record, I'm not a Dude, I'm a Dudette!

I watched this for Andy Griffith, but I was also very impressed by Patricia Neal's performance.

Maybe the fact that this was only Griffith's first movie explains why they didn't get nominated.

She was gorgeous and gave a brilliant performance. I think all I'd seen her in before this is The Day the Earth Stood Still (one of the best SciFi movies ever) and Breakfast at Tiffany's, both of which she was great in, but she blew me away in this! Very underrated actress.

But I couldn't possibly sit through an Ayn Rand movie, no matter who was in it. I'd kill someone, and then myself.

"He's already attracted to her. Time and monotony will do the rest."

This movie is very honest. Maybe too honest. The movie shows how gullible people can be controlled by the media. It also shows how manipulating tv can be.

Her groan of despair and anguish when Rhodes leaves her room is something I can never forget. It was so real.






Get me a bromide! And put some gin in it!

Just finished reading As I Am (Patricia Neal's autobiography) this morning and was completely worn out emotionally when I finally closed the book. What a life that this strong and beautiful woman had! Anyways, the book lead me to this movie and again, I am quite impressed by her. Highly recommend this autobiography for any Patricia fans!