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Patricia Neal : An Unquiet Life by Stephen Michael Shearer (2006, Hardcover)
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But there has been much, much more to Neal's life. Variety even ran a headline erroneously stating that she had died. Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life is the first critical biography detailing the actress's impressive film career and remarkable personal life.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity Press of Kentucky
ISBN-100813123917
ISBN-139780813123912
eBay Product ID (ePID)50804783
Product Key Features
Number of Pages508 Pages
Publication NamePatricia Neal : an Unquiet Life
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
SubjectWomen, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorStephen Michael Shearer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight32.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2005-035533
Reviews""Shearer delivers an inspiring look at the professional triumphs and personal tragedies that define one of Hollywood's legendary stars." --Des Moines Regiser" --, ""This impressively researched biography of film actress Patricia Neal covers an immensity of material." --(Salt Lake City) Deseret Morning" --, ""Shearer explores Neal's fascinating acting career and personal life, her marriage to children's author Roald Dahl, and her amazing dedication and bravado that has marked her film legacy." --Celebrity Caf" --, "One of the best [of the new showbiz biographies]is Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life which digs into the amazing first 80 years in the life of one of our national treasures." -- Robert Osborne, Reuters, ""Shearer delivers an inspiring look at the professional triumphs and personal tragedies that define one of Hollywood's legendary stars." --Des Moines (IA) Sunday Regiser" --, ""Digs into the amazing first 80 years in the life of one of our national treasures.... Neal is still a great force of nature, and Shearer's book documents all her ups, downs, traumas and triumphs." --Robert Osborne, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters" --, "Shearer delivers an inspiring look at the professional triumphs and personal tragedies that define one of Hollywood's legendary stars.-- Des Moines (IA) Sunday Register" -- Des Moines (IA) Sunday Register, "Digs into the amazing first 80 years in the life of one of our national treasures.... Neal is still a great force of nature, and Shearer's book documents all her ups, downs, traumas and triumphs.-- Reuters, Washington Post, St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, Hollywood Reporter" -- Reuters, Washington Post, St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, Hollywood Reporter, ""A rich record of a life, and of the time and places in which that life was lived." --Toronto Globe and Mail" --, "One can see plainly while reading this book that it was a real labor of love. Anyone interested in movies as well as U.S. social history will treasure this volume about an extraordinary actress and lady." --Bowling Green Daily News, ""Digs into the amazing first 80 years in the life of one of our national treasures.... Neal is still a great force of nature, and Shearer's book documents all her ups, downs, traumas and triumphs." --Reuters, Washington Post, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Hollywood Reporter" --, "Digs into the amazing first 80 years in the life of one of our national treasures.... Neal is still a great force of nature, and Shearer's book documents all her ups, downs, traumas and triumphs." -- Reuters, Washington Post, St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, Hollywood Reporter, "This impressively researched biography of film actress Patricia Neal covers an immensity of material." --(Salt Lake City) Deseret News, "Shearer delivers an inspiring look at the professional triumphs and personal tragedies that define one of Hollywood's legendary stars." --Des Moines Regiser, "One of the best [of the new showbiz biographies]is Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life which digs into the amazing first 80 years in the life of one of our national treasures.-- Robert Osborne, Reuters" -- Robert Osborne, Reuters, ""Shearer explores Neal's fascinating acting career and personal life, her marriage to children's author Roald Dahl, and her amazing dedication and bravado that has marked her film legacy." --Celebrity Caf " --, "Screen legend Neal's life was filled with tragedies and triumphs, and Shearer unveils an impressive portrait of the actress.... Readers of As I Am, Neal's 1988 memoir, will seek out this biography for more of the actress's absorbing and inspirational story." -- Publishers Weekly, "Screen legend Neal's life was filled with tragedies and triumphs, and Shearer unveils an impressive portrait of the actress.... Readers of As I Am, Neal's 1988 memoir, will seek out this biography for more of the actress's absorbing and inspirational story.-- Publishers Weekly" -- Publishers Weekly, ""Shearer explores Neal's fascinating acting career and personal life, her marriage to children's author Roald Dahl, and her amazing dedication and bravado that has marked her film legacy." --Celebrity Café" --, "Shearer explores Neal's fascinating acting career and personal life, her marriage to children's author Roald Dahl, and her amazing dedication and bravado that has marked her film legacy." --Celebrity Café, ""This impressively researched biography of film actress Patricia Neal covers an immensity of material." --(Salt Lake City) Deseret News" --, ""Patricial Neal has traveled the road from tirumph to despair in ways few of us can imagine. There is sincerity and dedication behind this work." --Paul Newman" --, "Patricial Neal has traveled the road from tirumph to despair in ways few of us can imagine. There is sincerity and dedication behind this work--it's vibrant and accomplished.-- Paul Newman" -- Paul Newman, ""Screen legend Neal's life was filled with tragedies and triumphs, and Shearer unveils an impressive portrait of the actress.... Readers of As I Am, Neal's 1988 memoir, will seek out this biography for more of the actress's absorbing and inspirational story." --Publishers Weekly" --, "This impressively researched biography of film actress Patricia Neal covers an immensity of material." -- (Salt Lake City) Deseret Morning News, "Patricial Neal has traveled the road from tirumph to despair in ways few of us can imagine. There is sincerity and dedication behind this work." --Paul Newman, "A rich record of a life, and of the time and places in which that life was lived." --Toronto Globe and Mail, "This impressively researched biography of film actress Patricia Neal covers an immensity of material.-- (Salt Lake City) Deseret Morning News" -- (Salt Lake City) Deseret Morning News, ""One can see plainly while reading this book that it was a real labor of love. Anyone interested in movies as well as U.S. social history will treasure this volume about an extraordinary actress and lady." --Bowling Green Daily News" --, "Screen legend Neal's life was filled with tragedies and triumphs, and Shearer unveils an impressive portrait of the actress.... Readers of As I Am, Neal's 1988 memoir, will seek out this biography for more of the actress's absorbing and inspirational story." --Publishers Weekly, "Shearer delivers an inspiring look at the professional triumphs and personal tragedies that define one of Hollywood's legendary stars." -- Des Moines (IA) Sunday Register, "Digs into the amazing first 80 years in the life of one of our national treasures.... Neal is still a great force of nature, and Shearer's book documents all her ups, downs, traumas and triumphs." --Robert Osborne, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, "Patricial Neal has traveled the road from tirumph to despair in ways few of us can imagine. There is sincerity and dedication behind this work" -- Paul Newman
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal791.4302/8092
SynopsisThe internationally acclaimed actress Patricia Neal has been a star on stage, film, and television for nearly sixty years. On Broadway she appeared in such lauded productions as Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest , for which she won the very first Tony Award, and The Miracle Worker. In Hollywood she starred opposite the likes of Ronald Reagan, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Paul Newman, Fred Astaire, and Tyrone Power in some thirty films. Neal anchored such classic pictures as The Day the Earth Stood Still, A Face in the Crowd, and Breakfast at Tiffany's, but she is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Alma Brown in Hud, which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1963. But there has been much, much more to Neal's life. She was born Patsy Louise Neal on January 20, 1926, in Packard, Kentucky, though she spent most of her childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee. Neal quickly gained attention for her acting abilities in high school, community, and college performances. Her early stage successes were overshadowed by the unexpected death of her father in 1944. Soon after she left New York for Hollywood in 1947, Neal became romantically involved with Gary Cooper, her married co-star in The Fountainhead, an attachment which brought them both a great deal of notoriety in the press and a great deal of heartache in their personal lives. In 1953, Neal married famed children's author Roald Dahl, a match that would bring her five children and thirty years of dramatic ups and downs. In 1961, their son, Theo, was seriously injured in an automobile accident and required multiple neurosurgeries and years of rehabilitation; the following year their daughter, Olivia, died of measles. At the pinnacle of her screen career, Patricia Neal suffered a series of strokes which left her in a coma for twenty-one days. Variety even ran a headline erroneously stating that she had died. At the time, Neal was pregnant with her and Dahl's fifth child, Lucy, who was born healthy a few months later. After a difficult recovery, Neal returned to film acting, earning a second Academy Award nomination for The Subject Was Roses. She appeared in a number of television movie roles in the 1970s and 1980s and won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Dramatic TV Movie in 1971 for her role in The Homecoming. Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life is the first critical biography detailing the actress's impressive film career and remarkable personal life. Author Stephen Michael Shearer has conducted numerous interviews with Neal, her professional colleagues, and her intimate friends and was given access to the actress's personal papers. The result is an honest and comprehensive portrait of an accomplished woman who has lived her life with determination and bravado., With her commanding presence, legendary actress Patricia Neal (1926-2010) anchored such classic movies as The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), A Face in the Crowd (1957), and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). She is perhaps most well known for her crowning acting achievement: her performance as Alma in Hud (1963), which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life is the first critical biography detailing the actress's impressive film career. Author Stephen Michael Shearer's has conducted numerous interviews with Neal, her colleagues, and her friends. The result is an honest and comprehensive portrait of an accomplished woman who has lived her life with determination and bravado., Personally acquainted with the actress and having conducted a number of interviews with her, Shearer presents an honest and comprehensive portrait of an accomplished woman who has lived her life with determination and bravado., 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's reputation grew 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 80s. 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. Author Stephen Michael Shearer's approach incorporates both biography and cinematic study. Though he is personally acquainted with the actress and has conducted a number of interviews with her, Shearer presents an honest and comprehensive portrait of an accomplished woman who has lived her life with determination and bravado.
LC Classification NumberPN2287.N33S54 2006
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- Jan 07, 2020
Too much detail!
The book had way too much uninteresting details that did not pertain to Patricia Neal. Her autibiography, As I Am! is a much better, personal book written by her.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Mar 17, 2020
A Great Book on Patricia Neal
This is the definitive book on Patricia Neal. It is well researched and detailed..Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
