Patricia Neal: Oscar-Winning Actress Passes Away At 84

more images

New York (GaeaTimes.com) Patricia Neal, winner of Best Actress Oscar in 1964 died Sunday at the age of 84 after a battle with lung cancer. She won the Academy Award for her role of a resilient housekeeper Alma opposite Paul Newman in Hud.

Only a year after her academy award winning performance, she suffered three strokes. She was left in coma for three weeks after those strokes. She became semi-paralyzed and lost the ability to talk. She gradually learned to talk and walk again and bounced back with another Oscar nomination for her 1968 movie, The Subject Was Roses. She brought life to the novel The Fountainhead becoming a part of the mass thinking and soul of the 20th century.

In The Fountainhead, she starred with Gary Cooper who had a habit of getting into a quick fling with most of his ladies. But he fell in love with Patricia Neal and nearly married her. His Catholic faith and Hollywood marriage reasserted themselves and he dropped her.

Her effort of for her recovery after several strokes is a lesson to all who succumb to fate and stop trying. With her stubbornness she scoffed at fate and worked her life that was completely ravished by aneurysm.

With the death of Patricia Neal, an era of the old time Hollywood glamour and glitter came to an end. Patricia Neal was a true individual in her own rights. She was a strong, inspiriting, beautiful woman, a memorable entity bringing the full presence of the character she portrayed.