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INTERVIEW: PATRICIA NEAL
Patricia Neal won the first Tony Award ever given
an actor in 1947 for her featured role as Regina Hubbard in
Another Part of the Forest, the second play that Lillian
Hellman based upon her Demopolis, Alabama, family. The play, a
prequel to The Little Foxes, debuted at the Fulton Theatre
in Manhattan on November 20, 1946. Miss Neal later won the Oscar for
Best Actress in Hud, a 1963 film from a novel entitled
Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry. In her interview,
she speaks candidly about the writers and fellow artists with whom
she has worked: Hellman, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and her
"Hud" co-star Paul Newman. After fighting back from strokes she
suffered at a young age, Miss Neal became a role model for personal
determination and a rehabilitation center in her hometown of
Knoxville is named for her. She frequently inspires audiences with
her speech about the strokes and her perseverance to renew her
acclaimed career once she had defeated overwhelming physical
challenges.
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Patricia Neal (left) stars with Kim
Hunter in
the 1952 revival of Lillian Hellman's
The Children's Hour on Broadway (Courtesy, Patricia
Neal).
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Patricia Neal as Regina
Hubbard in Another Part
of the Forest, 1946 (Courtesy, Patricia Neal). |
Original Broadway Playbill for
Another Part of the
Forest, 1946.
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