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- In 1962, The Miracle Worker (1962) became a movie and Patty won an Academy Award for best supporting actress. She was 16 years old, making her the youngest person ever to win an Oscar. She then starred in her own sitcom titled The Patty Duke Show (1963).
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Anna Marie "Patty" Duke (December 14, 1946 [1] – March 29, 2016) was an American actress. Over the course of her acting career, she was the recipient of an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The play lasted almost two years, from October 19, 1959 to July 1, 1961 (Duke left in May 1961). In 1962, The Miracle Worker (1962) became a movie and Patty won an Academy Award for best supporting actress. She was 16 years old, making her the youngest person ever to win an Oscar.
- Actress, Producer, Writer
- March 29, 2016
- December 14, 1946
- She Had A Dysfunctional Family
- She Met Her Talent Managers at Eight
- She Aspired to Be A Nun
- Her Managers Raised Her
- They Lied About Her
- They Changed Her
- She Changed Her Name
- She Had Limited Contact with Her Parents
- Her Managers Exploited Her
- Her Managers Were Predatory
Born in Manhattan and raised in Queens, Patty Duke and her siblings didn't get the luxury of a happy childhood. Their home was an utter nightmare.Their father, John, had a drinking problem, while their mother, Frances, had clinical depression and a tendency to be violent. Then, when Patty was six, Frances kicked John out of the family home. If you ...
When Patty was eight, she met the people who put her on the path to fame: talent managers John and Ethel Ross. At first, they seemed like the saviors she'd been looking for. The Rosses managed her brother’s career and searched for a girl to join their team of child actors. To their credit, the husband-and-wife team was largely responsible for Patty...
Duke had strong Catholic roots, and it showed in her favorite play activity. As a young girl, Patty had dreams of growing up to become a nun. The budding child actor and her friends pretended to be nuns by wrapping loose sheets of paper around their foreheads and necks and donning dark scarves. Then, they took turns playing the teacher or mother su...
At the beginning of her career, Duke quickly gained steady work in commercials and small parts. That’s when the Rosses saw an opportunity they could capitalize on. They agreed to accept Patty as a full-time client on one condition—she had to live with them. As a single mom struggling to raise three children on a cashier’s income, Frances saw it as ...
Patty’s managers weren’t against playing dirty to get what they wanted. To improve Patty’s chances of getting roles, they said she was two years younger than she really was. They also listed fake credits to her resume to beef it up and make her look like a more accomplished actress. It seems they lived by the ethos of faking it until you make it. B...
Young Patty was definitelyvery malleable. She underwent her very own Eliza Doolittle transformation. She got rid of her New York accent and dressed like Grace Kelly. In keeping with The Rosses’ lies, she also learned to lie about her height, age, weight, and experience. The Rosses dictated what she would do during auditions and made her practice co...
The Rosses felt their client needed a stage name. See, Patty isn’t, well, really Patty. Her real name was Anna Marie Duke. With hopes that Anna would reach the same level of success as another actress named Patty McCormack, they decided her stage name would be Patty Duke. The Rosses revealed the name change in a disturbing way.They told Duke, "Anna...
Growing up, Patty didn’t see her parents much. After her father left the family, she barely saw him. When she lived with her managers, they also kept her mother away. Patty’s mom was unaware of the kind of things that were happening to her daughter. Patty only saw her mother when she came to the Rosses’ home to do their laundry. Sadly, the Rosses's...
For better and for worse, the Rosses wielded tight control over every part of Patty’s life. If you're thinking the Rosses already went too far, unfortunately, there's more to this sad tale.When Patty was 13, John and Ethel gave her prescription drugs and alcohol so they could exert even more power over her. They also charged her excessively high ma...
As if the involvement of substances in a minor’s life wasn’t bad enough, that was just the start. She remembered there were two instances when she experienced unwanted advances from her managers. She said the couple tried to fondle her while she was in her bed. Luckily, it didn’t go beyond that point—because Patty threw up in reaction to these adva...
The play lasted almost two years, from October 19, 1959 to July 1, 1961 (Duke left in May 1961). In 1962, The Miracle Worker (1962) became a movie and Patty won an Academy Award for best supporting actress. She was 16 years old, making her the youngest person ever to win an Oscar.
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Mar 29, 2016 · The actress, who played a young Helen Keller and starred in the popular 1960s sitcom “The Patty Duke Show,” has died. She was 69. In her later years, Duke returned to TV, acting in episodes...
Mar 31, 2016 · But Duke was most famous, and rightly so, for her role as Helen Keller in Arthur Penn’s 1962 film, The Miracle Worker, one of the greatest performances ever given by a child actor.
Aug 25, 2017 · We start with actress Patty Duke, who Terry interviewed in 1988. The Oscar-winning actress grew up in the public eye as a child star and, at the age of 12, won over Broadway audiences as Helen...
