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The actress, known for her roles in 'Napoleon Dynamite' and '7th Heaven,' is opening up about her decades-long acting career.
Just weeks before Patty Duke died, she was hoping to attend the premiere of a documentary called, Once in a Lew Moon, a film that would ultimately be her final onscreen appearance.
Patty Duke, the actress who won ... When the production was adapted into a 1962 film, Duke won an Oscar for her role, becoming the youngest competitive Academy Award winner at the time.
Barbara Parkins, from left, Lee Grant and Patty Duke, from the 1967 film “Valley of the Dolls,” reunited in New York in 2000 for a screening and discussion of the movie.
Patty Duke came to fame as a teenager, combining both a masterful talent for dramatic acting with a sunny, all-American image that enchanted both TV and film audiences.
There is something irresistible about “Call Me Anna,” the video biography of Patty Duke, which airs at 9 tonight on WJZ-TV (Channel 13). It is not that the made-for-TV movie is a great production.
Actress Patty Duke. At the time of her 1962 film The Miracle Worker, Duke was the youngest actress to win an Oscar, for her role as Helen Keller. At 16, she was the youngest actress in television ...
Patty Duke, best known as Helen Keller in the 1962 film The Miracle Worker and for headlining her own sitcom, has died, She was 69. In 1985, just ahead of her 40th birthday, the actress sat down ...
Actress Patty Duke, who shot to fame as a teenager in the film The Miracle Worker, died Tuesday morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine at age 69, her agent said. "She was a wife, a mother, a ...
Just weeks before Patty Duke died, she was hoping to attend the premiere of a documentary called, Once in a Lew Moon, a film that would ultimately be her final onscreen appearance. As her health ...
Patty Duke, a onetime child actress who won an Oscar at 16 and overcame an exploited youth and ravaging mental illness to excel in television, theater and film for more than half a century, died ...