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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 .
From 1959, he was cast in a series of small roles for television. [8] In 1962, Prine was cast in the Academy Award-nominated film The Miracle Worker as Helen Keller's older brother James. [9] He had fond memories of his co-star Anne Bancroft, who was dating Mel Brooks at the time. [1]
The next year she portrayed Anne Sullivan in the original Broadway production of The Miracle Worker, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. After her continued success on stage, Bancroft's film career was revived when she was cast in the acclaimed film adaptation of The Miracle Worker (1962) for which she won the Academy Award for ...
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.
Early in her career, Swenson had supporting roles in the films Advise & Consent (1962) and The Miracle Worker (1962) in which she played Helen Keller's mother. Swenson was a trained lyric soprano [11] [12] and starred on Broadway in New Faces (c. 1956), and The First Gentleman (1959), receiving Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances in 110 in the Shade (1964 ...
Spy Kids, Dirty Dancing and more movies will be cemented into history for future generations to enjoy.. On Tuesday, Dec. 17, the Library of Congress announced the 25 movies being added to the ...
The Miracle Worker (1962) The Chelsea Girls (1966) Ganja and Hess (1973) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Uptown Saturday Night (1974) Zora Lathan Student Films (1975-76) Up in Smoke (1978)
At age 15, Duke portrayed Helen Keller in the film The Miracle Worker (1962), a role she had originated on Broadway. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. The following year, she played the dual role of "identical cousins" Cathy and Patty Lane on her own network television series The Patty Duke Show (1963 ...