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The cast starred Anne Bancroft as Anne Sullivan and Patty Duke as Helen Keller. Featured in the cast were Torin Thatcher as Captain Keller, Patricia Neal as Kate Keller, Michael Constantine as Anagnos, and Beah Richards as Viney. Patty Duke stayed with the production until May 1961.
The Miracle Worker is a 2000 American made-for-television biographical film based on the 1959 play of the same title by William Gibson.Written by Monte Merrick, the film is based on the life of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan’s struggles to teach her. [1]
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.
Anne Sullivan Macy (born as Johanna Mansfield Sullivan; April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936) was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller. [1] At the age of five, Sullivan contracted trachoma , an eye disease, which left her partially blind and without reading or writing skills. [ 2 ]
Keller's birthplace in Tuscumbia, Alabama Keller (left) with Anne Sullivan vacationing on Cape Cod in July 1888. Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, the daughter of Arthur Henley Keller (1836–1896), [6] and Catherine Everett (Adams) Keller (1856–1921), known as "Kate".
It was at Perkins where Keller met Anne Sullivan, the tutor she would work with for 49 years. Sullivan was partially blind, but she taught Keller how to spell by signing the alphabet in her hand ...
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.
Lynne Frederick, had expressed interest playing Anne Sullivan. Despite her lengthy and accomplished body of work, the producers told Frederick that she was "far too pretty" for the part. [citation needed] Patty Duke, who played Anne Sullivan, won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in the 1962 film.