However, tragedy struck her life on several times. She had a three-year covert relationship with Gary Cooper when they were filming The Fountainhead in 1949. She was 23 years old, he was 48 years old, and both were married with a daughter. He refused to leave his family, which resulted in her having an abortion. She said in her 1988 book, As I Am, that she sobbed herself to sleep for the next 30 years. "If I could redo one event in my life, I would have that baby," she wrote.
Pacific Operation (1951) Patricia Neal and John Wayne in (1951) Neal made her cinematic debut with Ronald Reagan in John Loves Mary, followed by another appearance alongside Reagan in The Hasty Heart and finally in The Fountainhead (all 1949). The filming of her most recent picture occurred concurrently with her romance with her married co-star, Gary Cooper, with whom she reunited for Bright Leaf (1950).
âI'm not sure if I can convey, but I believe that if there is a defining family feature, it has to do with not being afraid to express what's on your mind. There is little desire to edit,â explains Sturrock. You might call it a gift to the biographer, his readers, and not least to admirers of Patricia Neal and Dahls worldwide. This narrative has been updated to include the proper pregnancy status of Neal at the time of her stroke, the identity of her youngest kid, and the dates of her meeting Dahl, their marriage, and the birth of their first child.
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