Patricia Neal for Anacin

[outinsider]

She was a fighter, and she lived 45 years from a stroke that could have damn well killed her only to come out strong.

[JubalCalif]

Yowzers! One would never have thought the late great Ms Neal had suffered a massive stroke that almost killed her years before this was filmed. She truly was a FIGHTER...and a class act all the way! THANKS for posting this delightful "blast from the past"!! :-)

[vividwatch47]

I remember when Patricia Neal suffered that stroke, she got a severe case of aphasia. AMAZING is the word as she managed to get her voice back in shape (which can be difficult for most stroke victims) and get back to work. R.I.P. Pat.

[pernelldh]

If TV Land should air more retromercials, they should air this one.

[Juliaflo]

@pernelldh I second that. But, as you know, TV Land has gone to seed.

[txquis]

I love it! We used to quote this commercial over and over again....BLOCKS headache pain, just stops it! Fantastic to see this again.

[tennyc]

thanks for posting this I am trying to find  where is the other ad she did , Fight Pain and WIN?

[htales]

RIP, what an awesome voice, gives you goosebumps.

[pixuma]

RIP...

gonna miss that voice

[ZarahLean]

Ms. Neal appeared a couple of years ago in Jersey City at the Loew's Cinema. She looked great but was a bit spaced. Best wishes to her. By the way, I will not join the stupid smoking debate here- if you are so stupid that you smoke, try addiction recovery programs. Yeah, keep sayin smoking is fine while you cough your heads off and stink like a sewer! Please! This is OVER like 1963.

[gatoperezoso]

i don't think anyone's saying smoking is good, just that she had a congenital defect and had a husky voice even before she started puffing...people who overreact to smokers are just as lame as the people they're criticizing, just in a different way...

[edybeast]

She was great in "The Fountainhead" and "A Face In The Crowd".

[Bpothik]

I remember the other one she did for Anacin when she is on a plane and some idiot in the overhead bin drops a pillow on her head or something like that and she's super nice about it and starts talking about Anacin...makikng some connection about the pillow and a headache.

[chris319]

You can see her eyes shift back and forth as she reads the copy off a teleprompter.

[weightfeather1]

@chris319 She said that it was more difficult for her to memorize lines after her stroke. The teleprompter was probably good insurance against mistakes and retakes. Come to thnk of it, most actors use teleprompters from time to time.

[alankendrick]

I remember this on when I was a kid. I always liked Patricia Neal - she is a great lady and actress.

[SHRINA17]

I so agree with you! Great actress and lady indeed! And as you know has been through hell...unbelievable what she went through...

[imperthean]

I am surprised that I am the first to comment about her in 2 months, considering The Day the Earth Stood Still has been remade and is a hot topic at the moment. Guess nobody pays attention to the original players. Love you Patricia. Loved you in Superman too! :)

[imperthean]

Wait a minute. You were not in Superman Patricia! That was Noel Neill! So Sorry! Hope the comment readers forgive me for that. :(

[themainthing1974]

I remember seeing Anacin commercials with Patricia Neal when I was a kid!:)

[Zoomer30]

huh, she seems to talk normal to me. Donald Douglas lost a lot of his speech after his stroke a few years or so back.

[80spreppy]

the reason she talks like that its because she had a major stroke that almost killed her.wait till you have your stroke and see if you talk like that

[lvblvb]

She really is a fighter. See "The Patricia Neal Story" starring Glenda Jackson. Her recovery from the stroke is inspiring.

[tonyjay]

That voice is from years of heavy smoking, as was her stroke. I wish you could get a sexy voice like that without smoking.

[gatoperezoso]

i just watched the movie w/ glenda...the doctor said she probably had some congenital defect that caused the stroke...if you see in the movie, she was puffin' only a couple of months after the stroke...if smoking was an issue, she'd have stroked out again...

[weightfeather1]

I read Ms. Neal's book and it mentioned that her sister died of a cerebral aneurism, just like the one she had. They are congenital and run in families. By the way, she always had that smokey voice, even when she was a young starlet!

[gatoperezoso]

see, there you go...she's lucky she was able to bounce back...and lucky for us...she's wonderful...has that je nais quoi quality...you're capitvated...i could listen to her talk all day long...

[FeellikeDirt]

I love her voice

[kbirdusa]

And a carton of unfiltered Camels.

(A fight-TAH? Does Patricia Neal think she's British.)

[jermainemack]

I remember that commercial back in 1982 when movie star Patricia Neal is in the Anacin Commercial with the slogan Fight Pain and Win but I remember all the Anacin Slogans from the 80's like

Get the Anacin Difference (1980-1982)

Fight Pain and Win (1982-1983)

More Medicine (1983-1985)

[ctbingram]

"and a fifth of vodka" ;-D