Patricia Neal

They had five children. Gladys Kravitz was played from 1966 by Sandra Gould. She was married to writer Roald Dahl from 1953 to 1983. Diagnosed with terminal cancer before the show began, Pearce kept her illness a secret, but died from ovarian cancer during the second season. In 1988 Neal published an autobiography, As I Am. Pearce was posthumously awarded an Emmy Award for this role. In 1981 Glenda Jackson played her in a television movie, The Patricia Neal Story. Her hysterical accusations against Samantha, played by Elizabeth Montgomery, and the disbelief of her husband Abner, played by George Tobias, provided a common thread through many of the series early episodes.

Robinson in The Graduate, but turned it down, feeling it had come too soon after her stroke. As the nagging and nosy neighbor, Gladys Kravitz, Pearce's scenes were almost entirely reactions to acts of witchcraft she had witnessed at the house across the street. She was offered the role of Mrs. In 1964 she joined the cast of the television series Bewitched. She did not, however, reprise her role of the mother in the series. More movie roles followed, and she made appearances on Broadway, where she met her husband director Paul Davis during a production of The Bells are Ringing. Neal starred in the television movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, which proved to be the pilot episode for The Waltons. Her comedic performance was well received by critics and public alike, and she was given her own television variety show.

In 1965 she suffered a series of strokes, and went through extensive rehabilitation, returning in 1968 to star in The Subject Was Roses, for which she was again nominated for an Oscar. Gene Kelly was so impressed by her, that she became the only cast member to be included in the film version in 1949. In 1963, Neal won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Hud. She began working in nightclubs as a comedienne and was cast in the Broadway production of On The Town. She suffered a nervous breakdown in that year when her affair with Cooper came to an end, but she recovered, and returned in 1957 to star in A Face in the Crowd. Born Alicia Pearce in New York City, Pearce was educated in Europe and returned to the US as an adult. Neal starred in The Breaking Point, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Operation Pacific before 1952. Alice Pearce (October 16, 1913 - March 3, 1966) was an American actress.

Her appearance that same year in The Fountainhead led to a long romantic affair with her co-star, Gary Cooper. In 1949, she debuted in film opposite Ronald Reagan in John Loves Mary. She studied drama at Northwestern University, then appeared on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for Voice of the Turtle. Born Patsy Louise Neal in Packard, Kentucky, she grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Patricia Neal (born January 20, 1926) is an American actress.