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Unknown Birthday. Age information for actors in the movie The Miracle Worker released on Wednesday, May 23 1962. The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings.
Jul 30, 2022 · Before filming, Patty Duke met Helen Keller herself. Duke met Helen Keller, who was 80 at the time, about a year before the movie came out and found her very much like a grandmother. Duke was "in...
At age 15, Duke portrayed Helen Keller in the film The Miracle Worker (1962), a role she had originated on Broadway. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. The following year, she played the dual role of "identical cousins" Cathy and Patty Lane on her own network television series The Patty Duke Show (1963 ...
In addition, despite the fact that Patty Duke had played Helen Keller in the play, she almost did not get the part. The reason was that at 15 she was considered too old to portray a seven-year-old girl, but after Bancroft had been cast as Anne, Duke was chosen to play Helen in the film. [3]
In 1962, The Miracle Worker (1962) became a movie and Patty won an Academy Award for best supporting actress. She was 16 years old, making her the youngest person ever to win an Oscar. She then starred in her own sitcom titled The Patty Duke Show (1963). It lasted for three seasons, and Patty was nominated for an Emmy.
- Actress, Producer, Writer
- March 29, 2016
- December 14, 1946
The Miracle Worker, American dramatic biopic, released in 1962, that presented the life of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie (or Anne) Sullivan; it earned Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke Academy Awards for best actress and best supporting actress, respectively.
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The Miracle Worker: Directed by Arthur Penn. With Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine. The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
