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Dec 8, 1981 · With Glenda Jackson, Dirk Bogarde, Ken Kercheval, Jane Merrow. Award-winning Hollywood actress Patricia Neal suffered three massive strokes and was unable to walk or talk, leaving her husband, the author Roald Dahl, to look after their children and care for her.
This period of their lives was dramatised in the television film The Patricia Neal Story (1981), in which the couple was played by Glenda Jackson and Dirk Bogarde. On August 4, 1965, Neal gave birth to a healthy daughter.
The Patricia Neal Story: An Act of Love. After finishing her first day of filming on John Ford’s 7 Women (1966), Patricia Neal returned home to resume her more routine daily chores.
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson. This true-life TV movie stars Glenda Jackson as Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal and Anthony Page as her author husband Roald Dahl. In 1964, Neal is felled by a stroke, which endangers not only her life but the life of her unborn child.
Under the guidance of her husband, renowned English author Roald Dahl (Dirk Bogarde), Neal begins to heal, but it seems unlikely that she will fully regain her ability to speak and walk.
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The dramatic account of actress Patricia Neal's miraculous recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1966 with the help of her then-husband, author Roald Dahl, and their close friend, veteran actress Mildred Dunnock.
