Before looking at the Patty Duke Show cast, one has to explore the entertainment world's fascination with the idea of "twinsies" in the 1960s. For instance, there was Hayley Mills doing double ...

“Anna Marie is dead,” Duke would say she was told by the marquee-minded Rosses when she was 8. “You’re Patty now.” According to Duke, the Rosses molested her, plied her with drugs and ...

The Oscar and Emmy winner was a mental health advocate. — -- Patty Duke, Oscar-winning actress and the star of an eponymous TV show, died this morning, ABC News has confirmed. According to ...

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 British ...

Patty Duke, former child star and Academy Award winner, died on Tuesday. She was 69. She may have been a theater veteran, but Duke never sang or danced on stage until Stephen Sondheim’s ...

Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 years. Patty Duke, best known as Helen Keller in the 1962 film The Miracle Worker, has died at the age of 69. After ...

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.

The Patty Duke Show was a vehicle for teenage star Patty Duke, who was coming off of a huge Academy Award win the previous year. Duke starred as the chatty and fun-loving Patty Lane and the demure ...

Late actress Patty Duke had a decades-long marriage with husband Michael Pearce, but her path to happily ever after took a few turns before she got there Writer-Reporter, PEOPLE Patty Duke (born ...

Actress Patty Duke died on Tuesday at age 69, and will be remembered for her many Hollywood achievements, from her Oscar-winning turn at age 16 in “The Miracle Worker” to “The Patty Duke ...

Patty Duke, a child star whose multi-decade career included an Academy award, a high-profile TV sitcom and advocacy for mental health care, has died. She was 69 years old. The cause of death was ...