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Veteran actress, Patricia Neal died Sunday, 8th Of August, 2010, of lung cancer. Neal is best known for her starring roles in A Face in the Crowd (1957), Breakfast at Tiffany's ('61) and her Oscar-winning performance as Alma Brown in Hud ('63) opposite Paul Newman. In addition to those memorable films, she also appeared in numerous other pics including The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Fountainhead and was nominated again in 1968 for The Subject was Roses. On TV, the actress received three Emmy nominations for The Waltons: The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971), Tail Gunner Joe ('77) and Hallmark Hall of Fame: All Quiet on the Western Front ('79). Neal had suffered tremendously in her life and overcome those losses and illnesses. Not only did her daughter Olivia Dahl die due to complications from measles at the age of 7 years old, but her son Theo Dahl survived being hit by a taxi while in his carriage when he was a mere 4 months old. In 1965 at the age of 39, Neal suffered several strokes, which left her in a coma for 21 days. Neal credited her then husband, famed children's writer Roald Dahl (James and the Giant Peach) with helping her mend by designing her recovery routines. In 1981, Glenda Jackson played the husky-voice actress in The Patricia Neal Story, a TV biopic detailing her struggle back from the stroke. After her recovery, Neal went back to work and continued acting right up until 2009. Neal succumbed to lung cancer Sunday, August 8th, surrounded by family <b>...</b>