Hud.  That is all.

She was an incredible actor and an amazing human being.

My dad, who had a stroke at age 34, always loved her because of how she came back after her own stroke. RIP, Ms. Neal. Not even the film version of The Fountainhead is enough to dim your legend. And man oh man—A Face in the Crowd. ‘Nuff said.

I never met her,but my aunt & her family knew Patricia Neal because they attended the same Catholic church in Connecticut.  They said she was always friendly to everyone, didn’t act like a diva or anything like that.

And she was married to Roald Dahl.  Neat lady.

And she was married to Roald Dahl.

To whom we owe thanks for his relentless efforts to help her come back from her three cataclysmic strokes. Whatever less than pleasant aspects of the great writer pained Ms. Neal thereafter, the two of them together fought a heroic battle to get her on her feet again.

Let me second A Face in the Crowd - if you don’t know it, it’s worth watching to see a fictional Glenn Beck get his come-uppance, from Ms. Neal’s character. 

Also, I’d like to plug one of her later movies - Robert Altman’ Cookie’s Fortune - she plays Cookie, and isn’t in it as long as we might like - but it’s a great Altman shaggy dog story.

The NYT obit had a nice rundown of the relationship of Neal and Dahl, post-stroke - he really was heroic, but she was also.