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Patricia Neal ca. 1950. Patricia Neal movies: 'The Day the Earth Stood Still,' 'A Face in the Crowd' Back in 1949, few would have predicted that Gary Cooper's leading lady in King Vidor's The Fountainhead would go on to win a Best Actress Academy Award 15 years later. Patricia Neal was one of those performers – e.g., Jean Arthur, Anne Bancroft – whose film career didn't start out all that well, but who, by way of Broadway, managed to both revive and magnify their Hollywood stardom. As part of its “Summer Under the Stars” series, Turner Classic Movies is dedicating Sunday, Aug. 16, '15, to Patricia Neal. This evening, TCM is showing three of her best-known films, in addition to one TCM premiere and an unusual latter-day entry. 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' Robert Wise was hardly a genre director. A former editor (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons...

A Face In The Crowd (1957) Director: Elia Kazan Cast: Patricia Neal, Andy Griffith, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick, Percy Waram, Paul McGrath, Marshall Neilan, Alexander Kirkland, Kay Medford Screenplay: Budd Schulberg; from his short story "Your Arkansas Traveler" Patricia Neal, Andy Griffith, A Face in the Crowd Elia Kazan’s 1957 drama A Face in the Crowd, written by Kazan's On the Waterfront collaborator Budd Schulberg, is neither the forgotten masterpiece its champions claim it to be nor a minor work to be disregarded as it was for several decades. In fact, A Face in the Crowd is a good though clearly flawed effort, whose chief weaknesses are a screenplay that gets bogged down in soap-operatic didacticism and Andy Griffith's over-the-top film debut as Larry ‘Lonesome’ Rhodes, a Will Rogers-like homespun philosopher who rises from drunken jailbird to national kingmaker. On the positive side, A Face in the Crowd...

Who is Gypsy Rose Lee? Barbra Streisand confirm intention to play historical figure in new movie biopic -- [Feb. 20] Who is Gypsy Rose Lee? The famous woman is one of the characters from history who has inspired Lady Gaga -- and now will be a part played by movie legend Barbra Streisand in a new biopic movie. Gypsy Rose Lee was an American burlesque entertainer famous for her strip tease act. The interest in burlesque night club history was revived in 2010 and 2011 when singer Cher and singer turned actress Christina Aguilera made a movie musical titled Burlesque that features incredible song and dance numbers with racy theme costumes. Gypsy Rose Lee was also an actress, author, and playwright. Her 1957 memoir was made into a stage production for theater called Gypsy. The musical was later made into a film. The lovely Gypsy Rose Lee was born January 8, 1911. Gypsy Rose Lee died April 26, 1970. She was married three times.