As I Am

Sunday, January 10th, 2010 | American Literature

This is Patricia Neal’s autobiography, the American actress who married Roald Dahl. She really did live an eventful life; a top actress in the ’40s and ’50s, lover of Gary Cooper, married to Roald Dahl, losing her daughter to measles, her son having a brain injury due to an accident, then having a stroke herself. Really, she had so much happen to her. I was shocked at all the affairs she had with married men in her youth; and the fact that she never thought “karma” when a young woman had an affair with her husband (who ended up divorcing her). She was evidently a pretty strong woman who lost her temper a lot, knew what she wanted, and felt hard done by quite a bit too. She hated the relationship she had with her children, and yet she wasn’t around when they were young, due to her career. She was in a lot of films, won an oscar, but in the end none of that brought much joy to her. A fascinating woman, if slightly amoral, even if she did end up becoming a catholic and haunting a convent - more for what she could get than anything else. Interesting.

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