Media mentions in The Cumberland News

Below are media mentions from The Cumberland News, from Cumberland, Maryland, USA.


June 16, 1953

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From Keeping Up With Hollywood by Louella Parsons:

Everyone who knew how miserable Patricia Neal was before she left Hollywood at the end of her romance with Gary Cooper is glad she has found a new love in her life.

I hear that she and her fiancé, Roald Dahl (writer on a national magazine) have not yet set their wedding date. But they have bought a Jaguar to tour Europe in when they go there next month on a honeymoon.


September 9, 1960

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From Keeping Up With Hollywood by Louella Parsons:

Patricia Neal, who joined her husband author Roald Dahl at their English country estate after she finished her engagement in “The Miracle Worker,” is coming back to this country to report for the cast of “Breakfast at Tif­fany’s.”

I asked producer Dick Shepherd what role Pat will play. He said that playwright George Axelrod has written an entirely new char­acter in the story—a society wom­an who answers to the name of Emily Eustas Talmenson. Pat who gets here early next month, told Dick and his partner Martin Jurow that she’ll be in New York when roll is called Oct. 2 Audrey Hepburn plays Holly Golightly.


May 14, 1964

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Winner is Mother

OXFORD, England (AP) — Patricia Neal, who won this year’s Academy Award as Hollywood’s best actress, gave birth Tuesday to a 6-pound, 11-ounce girl. She is married to writer Roald Dahl.