Below are media mentions from The Sikeston Daily Standard, from Sikeston, Missouri, USA.
January 31, 1966
Source: The Internet Archive
Amazing Recovery For Patricia Neal
By Bob Thomas, AP Movie-Television Writer
HOLLYWOOD AP — “She’s coming along amazingly well,” said writer Roald Dahl of his wife, actress Patricia Neal, who suffered three massive strokes a year ago.
Dahl, a towering, plain-spoken Englishman, was there to confer with the Mirish brothers on his first screenplay, “Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting-a-Ling,” which will be filmed in Europe in late spring. His Oscar-winning wife remained with their four children at home in Buckinghamshire, 30 miles from London.
“Pat’s speech is virtually normal, except for a slight hesitancy,” Dahl reported. “Her face is 100 per cent normal. She still has a slight but obstinate limp caused by a weak right ankle. She is taking hydrotherapy every other day, sitting in a pool heated to 96 degrees while the therapist massages her ankle.
“Her right hand is a little weak as yet, so that her handwriting is a bit wobbly, although she can write and spell perfectly. Her memory is good, except for names.
“She may have to work at memorizing lines when she returns to work. I’d say that right now there is a better than even chance that she will. The chances get better all the time; a month ago I would have said it was only an even chance.” His wife is partially responsible for Dahl’s turning from his usual craft of fashioning short stories to the writing of a scenario.
“When we were out in Hawaii while Pat was making ‘In Harm’s Way,’ I thought I might have a go at writing a script,” he explained. “I hadn’t seen many movies, but I had read Pat’s scripts, and I thought I might be able to do it.”
The result was “Oh Death etc.,” which title came from an English ballad during World War I. That is the period of Dahl’s script, which is a suspense story taking place in Switzerland. He was paid handsomely for
it ー $150,000 ー though half of it went to a television director who supplied the basic idea.