Posted on 08/08/2010 9:08:41 PM PDT by PROCON
Rest in Peace. I will remember her from, “The Fountainhead”. She was terrific!
***I remember her appearance at the Academy Awards a few years after suffering a stroke.***
I remember seeing her play herself years ago in a made-for-tv movie about her stroke and recovery.
Great actress. RIP.
Sh had a major stroke at the height of her career. Her fight to come back wa amazing She had to learn to talk/walk again. Amazing woman.
I always remember her performance in The Hasty Heart. Superb portrayal indeed of a nursing sister. It was in 1949, England still dimly realizing that the end of the war was not going to bring instant paradise.
It was made in an old Aircraft Hanger and had to simulate hospital scenes in Burma, 1945. Conditions were not the best re the cold interior. They had to wear light tropical clothing to portray Burma. Richard Todd, who played the recalcitrant Scottish soldier, doomed to stay because he had an incurable ailment with his kidneys. He left us only about ten months ago. He soldiered on until 90 years of age. He had seen wartime action.
A nice word here for Ronald Reagan, later President of the United States. He played "Yank" and was the mediator in the often breaking out of the Scotsman's anger. They had not told him the real truth. I always like to think that the quiet rational and diplomatic "Yank" was much like the actual character of Ronald Reagan.
Richard Todd? I think he played in a few Disney movies many years ago. One of them was a movie about Rob Roy (famous Scottish hero). Another one where he played a guy named Charles Brandon, one of Henry the 8’s brothers in law! In both of them, actress Glynis Johns (Mrs. Banks in “Mary Poppins”)played his wife. I’m pretty sure that’s him! I always wonder what happened to him; I hadn’t heard anymore about him in years!
The former Alabama and NY Jets quarterback?
Reagan was a conservative in 1949.
remember at his time he kept the commies at bay out out the hollywood actor union.
The Democratic Party left Reagan, not the other way around.
Yes, he was active for a while in Hollywood, but faded from that scene. He acted on Broadway as "Lachie" in the play The Hasty Heart. Richard Baseheart (one never hears of him these days) also well known previously acted as "Lachie". There was the film of course. Todd nominated for best actor, but I do not think he got it.
Was born to English parents in Dublin, Ireland and served as para-troop officer in WW2.
He played the Washington based reverend in the film "A Man Called Peter" as Peter Marshall in 1955.
“Hud” was a great movie. Newman and Neal were spectacular. One of my favorites.
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Richard Todd in costume for The Virgin Queen.
Actually, it was Glenda Jackson who portrayed Neal in the TV movie, “The Patricia Neal Story.” Jackson was nominated for an Emmy for her performance, and at the ceremony Neal joked that she was going to star in “The Glenda Jackson Story.”
Thanks for the correction. It has been too many years!
“I loved her as an actress-—Jeeze, I hope she wasn’t a liberal”
Dunno, but the married Neal was impregnated by a married Gary Cooper a supposedly devout Catholic. He was able to convince her to abort the child for the sake of their careers.
Patricia Neal, Hollywood Actress and Pro-Life Advocate, Dies at 84”………..Despite all this, Neal’s abortion of her unborn child was the greatest sorrow of her life.For three years Neal carried on an affair with Gary Cooper, then 47 years old and married, in 1949 when she was 23. The pair, which played opposite each other in the film version of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead," discovered that Neal was pregnant.
Neal revealed in 1988 in her autobiography, “As I am”, that she succumbed to the pressure put on her by Cooper and believed that having a baby out of wedlock would end her time in Hollywood.
“If I had only one thing to do over in my life,” she wrote, “I would have that baby.”
Perhaps that was one underlying motivation for Neal’s public support of her fellow actress Ingrid Bergman, who gave birth to her own child out of wedlock in 1950, exposing her affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini. For that, Bergman was denounced as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation" by the U.S. Senate. Neal would later tell PEOPLE magazine in 1988 that she wished she had Bergman’s bravery to give birth to her own child, rather than succumb to the pressure to cover up the pregnancy and the affair. ……………”
continued....Monsignor Jim Lisante, a longtime friend of Neal and Catholic priest of the Diocese of Rockville Center, NY, told the 2003 National Right to Life Committee’s Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner audience that the actress told him 20 years earlier that aborting her child was the greatest tragedy in her life."Father, alone in the night for over 40 years, I have cried for my child,” said Neal, according to Lisante. “And if there is one thing I wish I had the courage to do over in my life, I wish I had the courage to have that baby."
Lisante told the pro-life advocates gathered that evening that Neal would reach out many times to other women contemplating abortion saying, “Don't make my mistake. Let your baby live." ...............'
However, in 1949, Reagan was still a flaming Democrat.
IMHO...1949 flaming Democrat = 1988 - 2010 RINOs
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