1ST 'TO OLIVIA' PHOTOS
FROM A ROALD DAHL BIOPIC!
Some of you have probably heard of the famous marriage between legendary writer Roald Dahl and Oscar winning actress Patricia Neal: it was so tempestuous that a film titled
TO OLIVIA (formerly known as An Unquiet
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| Hugh Bonneville plays Roald, the author of Fantastic Mr. Fox, James And The Giant Peach, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Matilda and The Big Friendly Giant |
Life) has been produced on it starring
Hugh Bonneville and
Keeley Hawes alongside
Sam Heughan who plays Paul Newman in it. Today we have first photos from it.
Life Filled With Tragedies His books enchanted many generations of children, but Dahl's private life was one punctuated by tragedy after his and Patricia's daughter Olivia died at the age of seven in 1962. Six years after that he will dedicate
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| Keeley Hawes plays Patricia Neal who had affairs with Ronald Reagan and Gary Cooper whose daughter even spat on her once publicly for it. She even aborted a child with him. |
Fox to Olivia. Back in New York, they also survived a horrific accident in which their four-month-old son Theo was struck by a taxi, while in his pram, sustaining brain damages. When Patricia was pregnant with their fifth child, Lucy, she suffered a stroke which left her partially paralysed and blind and
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| Keeley speaks American in the film playing the American star Patricia who admitted that she never actually loved Dahl whom she divorced in 1983, a few years before his death |
unable to speak. Dahl then imposed a gruelling recovery regime on his wife that has since largely been adopted as the standard therapy for all stroke victims. To surprise of everyone, she returned to work later on and won another Oscar nomination.
