The Cooper family, too, suffered the strain of a temporary separation—Maria, as a child, famously spitting on Patricia in public, as Stephen Michael Shearer reported in Patricia Neal ...

and not least to fans of Patricia Neal and Dahls everywhere. Correction: This story has been revised to correct which daughter Neal was pregnant with when she had a stroke; who her youngest child ...

Ms. Neal also put much time and energy into raising money for brain injured children and adults and establishing the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center in Knoxville, Tenn. In dozens of speaking ...

But for Patricia Neal, the husky-voiced actress with a strong screen presence, life also was marked by personal tragedies: the death of one of her children and brain damage to another, and her own ...

In her memoir, Prairie Tale, Gilbert admits that, as a child (she was cast as Laura ... which was unheard of on our show.” Why Patricia Neal used a teleprompter and stayed in a Winnebago ...

Neal’s children hope their donation will help keep Patricia Neal’s legacy alive. But don’t look for that letter to Larry King among the boxes at Northwestern. “It is something we chose to keep and ...

Award-winning actor Patricia Neal guest-starred on Little House on the Prairie in 1975. She played a terminally ill widowed mother in search of a home for her three children. At the time ...

Patricia Neal, the willowy, husky-voiced actress who ... In 1953, she married famed British writer Roald Dahl, and they had five children. They divorced in 1983 after she learned he was having ...

Rebecca Ferguson is in talks to play Oscar winner Patricia Neal alongside Hugh Bonneville as children’s novelist Roald Dahl in John Hay’s Untitled Roald Dahl & Patricia Neal project.

This drama, often touching but also vexing, recounts the lives of the children’s book author Roald Dahl and the actress Patricia Neal when their 7-year-old daughter, Olivia, died of ...

The Best Actress for Hud was 84, and had a glorious and grueling life Patricia Neal ... Pregnant with Cooper’s child in 1950, Neal underwent an agonizing back-room abortion while Cooper ...