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Oct 5, 2023 · Is “The Miracle Worker” based on a true story? Yes, “The Miracle Worker” is based on the real-life story of Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. The film portrays the challenges they faced and the breakthroughs they achieved in Helen’s education.
Jul 30, 2022 · While Keller was a real person, her story certainly has been embellished and twisted to become almost mythical. "The Miracle Worker" no doubt contributed to that.
Jun 26, 2023 · The Miracle Worker is the official Helen Keller story, sanitized and shrink-wrapped for moral majority suburbanites, a reduction of a complex, trailblazing woman. For disability activists, it’s invoked the way Rain Man is by autistics: this is how they see us, this is what we are understood to be.
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The Miracle Worker is a 1962 American biographical film about Anne Sullivan, blind tutor to Helen Keller, directed by Arthur Penn. The screenplay by William Gibson is based on his 1959 play of the same title, which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series Playhouse 90.
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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 supporting actress, respectively.
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The Miracle Worker—which was based on a Tony Award-winning play by William Gibson, who also wrote the screenplay—recounts the early years of Keller (played by Duke). It highlights her remarkable achievements despite her blindness and deafness and shows the indefatigable efforts of her teacher (Bancroft) to connect with the frustrated and recalcitrant young girl.
The battle of wills (and actual physical fights) between the strongheaded Helen and her equally stubborn teacher is captured memorably by the lead actresses in grueling scenes (for which they wore special padding for protection beneath their costumes). Both Bancroft and Duke had starred in the Broadway production of The Miracle Worker, and Arthur Penn directed both the play and the film. The story was remade as television movies in 1979 and 2000, the former starring Duke in the role of Annie Sullivan.
•Studio: United Artists
•Director: Arthur Penn
•Producer: Fred Coe
•Writer: William Gibson
•Music: Laurence Rosenthal
•Running time: 106 minutes
•Anne Bancroft (Annie Sullivan)
•Patty Duke (Helen Keller)
•Victor Jory (Arthur Keller)
•Inga Swenson (Kate Keller)
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•Screenplay, adapted
•Costume design (black and white)
•Lead actress* (Anne Bancroft)
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The Miracle Worker is a 2000 American made-for-television biographical film based on the 1959 play of the same title by William Gibson, which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series Playhouse 90.
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.
