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Patty Duke, who died Tuesday at age 69, sat down with The Times' Susan King in 2013 to discuss TV fave "The Patty Duke Show" on the eve of the show's 50th anniversary.
Duke said her grandchildren are fans of the show, and while she never expected to play twins again, she felt a twinge of jealousy when she saw Cameron doing it. "I won't lie," Duke said.
Fifty years ago this fall, ABC premiered “The Patty Duke Show,” the endearing sitcom starring the then-16-year-old as the mischievous Patty from Brooklyn Heights and her quiet, studious ...
Consider, too, that she followed this up with her own sitcom, The Patty Duke Show (1963-66), in which she split her performance between the roles of identical cousins, ...
Patty Duke’s death Tuesday (at the too-early age of 69) robs us of not only one of my generation’s great performers, but leaves us bereft with a sense of grief for our girlhood.Times weren’t ...
Long before celebrities shared their private struggles on talk-show couches and social media feeds, actress Patty Duke broke a Hollywood taboo by speaking publicly about her mental health struggles.
Patty Duke 1946-2016 20 photos. ... In 1963 she debuted as the star of "The Patty Duke Show," playing the dual roles of Patty Lane of Brooklyn and her so-called identical cousin, ...
In 1965, Duke married her first husband, Harold Falk, an assistant director on “The Patty Duke Show,” but they were divorced a few years later. “Marriage may have been an escape, ...
But here’s the thing about The Patty Duke Show: It wasn’t that wacky.For three seasons and 104 episodes—from 1963 to 1966—teen star Patty Duke played the prim Cathy and her brash look ...
Eddie Applegate, who starred as Patty Duke’s goofy boyfriend in the 1960s sitcom "The Patty Duke Show," died Monday in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Reporter reported. He was 81. From 1963 to 1966 ...
The 14-year-old Patty Duke was inconsolable on the day in 1961 when she filmed the final scene of “The Miracle Worker.” “I was heartbroken, absolutely heartbroken,” says Duke, 50 years later.