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With her commanding presence, legendary actress Patricia Neal anchored such classic movies as "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "A Face in the Crowd", and "Breakfast at Tiffany's". She is perhaps most well known for her crowning acting achievement: her performance as Alma in "Hud", which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1963. Growing up in Packard, Kentucky, Neal began acting as a teenager, and her career soared after moving to New York. She performed in several Broadway plays, winning a Tony Award for Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest". She was then courted by Hollywood, and after being cast in "The Fountainhead", Neal quickly became regarded as one of the most promising actresses of the era. In 1965, several years after marrying famed children's author Roald Dahl, Neal suffered a severe and debilitating stroke, after which "Variety" mistakenly reported that she had died. After a difficult recovery, Neal returned to film acting, earning a second Academy Award nomination, and appeared in a number of television movie roles in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1986, Neal received the Women's International Center Living Legacy Award. "Patricia Neal" is the first critical biography detailing the actress's impressive film career, and author Stephen Michael Shearer's approach incorporates both biography and cinematic study. Shearer has conducted numerous personal interviews with Neal and with her colleagues and friends, and the result is an honest, insightful, and comprehensive portrait of an accomplished woman who has lived her life with determination and bravado.
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Stephen Michael Shearer, who has worked as a professional actor, has written for the Film Collectors Registry and contributed research to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
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