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1946 - Born in Manhattan, New York, on the 14th of December.
1958 - Her first screen appearance was a brief role in The Goddess.
1962 - She has played both Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan and film adaptations of The Miracle Worker.
- Received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
1963 - She landed her own series The Patty Duke Show, in which she played both the main characters.
1965 - Start a successful singing career, garnering several Top 40 hits such as "Don't Just Stand There" and "Dona Dona".
1967 - She lobbied for and landed the role of Neely O'Hara risqué Valley of the Dolls, with Sharon Tate and Barbara Parkins.
1970 - She worked in television movies and miniseries.
1971 - On the 21st of February, she gave birth to her first son, Sean. Sean was actually Michael Tell's biological son.
1972 - Actor John Astin married Duke, adopted her son and fathered her second son, Mackenzie Astin. Duke and Astin worked together extensively during their marriage. For a time, Patty Duke added Astin to her professional name.
1982 - Was diagnosed as manic-depressive, and she has said that after a couple of weeks on lithium, she felt normal for the first time in her life.
1985 - She served as President of the Screen Actors Guild.
- She and Astin divorced, and in she married drill seargent Michael Pearce, whom she met on the set of a TV movie,
1987 - Published her autobiography, Call Me Anna, and became the first celebrity to go public about the illness.
1999 - She reprised her Patty Duke Show roles as identical menopausal cousins in Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights.
2002 - She returned to New York to appear as "Aunt Eller" in a revival of Oklahoma.
2005 - She also returned to New York to attend a memorial service for actress and old co-star from The Miracle Worker, Anne Bancroft.
1958 - Her first screen appearance was a brief role in The Goddess.
1962 - She has played both Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan and film adaptations of The Miracle Worker.
- Received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
1963 - She landed her own series The Patty Duke Show, in which she played both the main characters.
1965 - Start a successful singing career, garnering several Top 40 hits such as "Don't Just Stand There" and "Dona Dona".
1967 - She lobbied for and landed the role of Neely O'Hara risqué Valley of the Dolls, with Sharon Tate and Barbara Parkins.
1970 - She worked in television movies and miniseries.
1971 - On the 21st of February, she gave birth to her first son, Sean. Sean was actually Michael Tell's biological son.
1972 - Actor John Astin married Duke, adopted her son and fathered her second son, Mackenzie Astin. Duke and Astin worked together extensively during their marriage. For a time, Patty Duke added Astin to her professional name.
1982 - Was diagnosed as manic-depressive, and she has said that after a couple of weeks on lithium, she felt normal for the first time in her life.
1985 - She served as President of the Screen Actors Guild.
- She and Astin divorced, and in she married drill seargent Michael Pearce, whom she met on the set of a TV movie,
1987 - Published her autobiography, Call Me Anna, and became the first celebrity to go public about the illness.
1999 - She reprised her Patty Duke Show roles as identical menopausal cousins in Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights.
2002 - She returned to New York to appear as "Aunt Eller" in a revival of Oklahoma.
2005 - She also returned to New York to attend a memorial service for actress and old co-star from The Miracle Worker, Anne Bancroft.
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Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness by Patty Duke (Mass Market Paperback - Jun 1, 1993) In her revealing bestsellerCall Me Anna,Patty Duke shared her long-kept secret: the talented, Oscar-winning actress who won our hearts onThe Patty Duke Showwas suffering from a...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke by Patty Duke (Paperback - May 1, 1988) The Star--The public saw her as a gifted child star: the youngest actor to win an Oscar for her role as Helen Keller inThe Miracle Workerand the youngest actor to have a prime-time... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Call Me Anna. The Autobiography of Patty Duke. by Patty and Turan, Kenneth Duke (Hardcover - May 13, 1987) |
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A Brilliant Madness: Living With Manic-Depressive Illness by Patty; Hochman, Gloria Duke (Hardcover - May 13, 1992) |
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The Zero Hour 06: Program 6: The Wife of the Red-Haired Man by Rod Serling (Audio Cassette - Dec 1, 1997) |
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Patty Duke: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts) by Stephen L. Eberly (Hardcover - Jun 24, 1988) Patty Duke is one of the few former child actors who has survived the transition from child to adolescent to adult and gone on to greater fame and success in her adult years. Academy Award-winner,...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Miracle Worker (DVD) Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft had been playing their respective roles as Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, on Broadway for some time before director Arthur Penn (The Left-Handed Gun) built... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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I'll Cry Tomorrow (DVD) Susan Hayward has a signature role inI'll Cry Tomorrow, a pedal-to-the-metal look at the troubled times of singer Lillian Roth. Hayward snagged her fourth Oscar nomination for the part, which takes... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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