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Jul 30, 2022 · While Keller was a real person, her story certainly has been embellished and twisted to become almost mythical. "The Miracle Worker" no doubt contributed to that.
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- Academy Award nominations (* denotes win)
The Miracle Worker, American dramatic biopic, released in 1962, that presented the life of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie (or Anne) Sullivan; it earned Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke Academy Awards for best actress and supporting actress, respectively.
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The Miracle Worker—which was based on a Tony Award-winning play by William Gibson, who also wrote the screenplay—recounts the early years of Keller (played by Duke). It highlights her remarkable achievements despite her blindness and deafness and shows the indefatigable efforts of her teacher (Bancroft) to connect with the frustrated and recalcitrant young girl.
The battle of wills (and actual physical fights) between the strongheaded Helen and her equally stubborn teacher is captured memorably by the lead actresses in grueling scenes (for which they wore special padding for protection beneath their costumes). Both Bancroft and Duke had starred in the Broadway production of The Miracle Worker, and Arthur Penn directed both the play and the film. The story was remade as television movies in 1979 and 2000, the former starring Duke in the role of Annie Sullivan.
•Studio: United Artists
•Director: Arthur Penn
•Producer: Fred Coe
•Writer: William Gibson
•Music: Laurence Rosenthal
•Running time: 106 minutes
•Anne Bancroft (Annie Sullivan)
•Patty Duke (Helen Keller)
•Victor Jory (Arthur Keller)
•Inga Swenson (Kate Keller)
•Director
•Screenplay, adapted
•Costume design (black and white)
•Lead actress* (Anne Bancroft)
- Lee Pfeiffer
The Miracle Worker is a 1962 American biographical film about Anne Sullivan, blind tutor to Helen Keller, directed by Arthur Penn. The screenplay by William Gibson is based on his 1959 play of the same title, which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series Playhouse 90.
The Miracle Worker refers to a broadcast, a play and various other adaptations of Helen Keller's 1903 autobiography The Story of My Life. The first of these works was a 1957 Playhouse 90 broadcast written by William Gibson and starring Teresa Wright as Anne Sullivan and Patricia McCormack as Keller.
Jun 26, 2023 · The Miracle Worker is the official Helen Keller story, sanitized and shrink-wrapped for moral majority suburbanites, a reduction of a complex, trailblazing woman. For disability activists, it’s invoked the way Rain Man is by autistics: this is how they see us, this is what we are understood to be.
- Ciara Moloney
Nov 24, 2009 · Sullivan, later dubbed “the miracle worker,” remained Keller’s interpreter and constant companion until the older woman’s death in 1936.
The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with scarlet fever. The illness leaves her blind, mute, and deaf.
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