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 ...

“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 ...