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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)
•Director
•Screenplay, adapted
•Costume design (black and white)
•Lead actress* (Anne Bancroft)
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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.
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- Biography, Drama
- Arthur Penn
- 1962-07-28
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.
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. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives.
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