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Patty Duke
Born	Anna Marie Duke December 14, 1946 (1946-12-14) (age 61) Elmhurst, Queens, New York
Spouse(s)	Harry Falk (1965-1969) Michael Tell (1970) John Astin (1972-1985) Michael Pearce (1986-present)
Awards won Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress 1962 The Miracle Worker Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie 1970 My Sweet Charlie 1977 Captains and the Kings 1980 The Miracle Worker Golden Globe Awards Most Promising Newcomer - Female 1962 The Miracle Worker Best Actress - Comedy Movie 1969 Me, Natalie

Anna Marie "Patty" Duke (born December 14, 1946) is an Academy Award-, three-time Emmy Award- and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning American actress of stage and film.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Acting Career 1.3 Singing Career 1.4 2000s 1.5 Other achievements 1.6 Personal life 1.7 Illness 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

Biography

Early life

Duke was born Anna Marie Duke in Elmhurst, Queens, New York, the daughter of Frances (née McMahon), a cashier, and John Patrick Duke, a handyman and cab driver.¹² Her father was Irish American and her maternal grandmother was German.²

Duke experienced what could be termed a Dickensian childhood. Her father was an alcoholic, and her mother suffered from clinical depression and was prone to violence. When Duke was 6, her mother threw her father out; then she was 8, her mother turned Duke's care over to John and Ethel Ross, who became her managers, recognized her talent and promoted her as a child actress.³

The Rosses' methods were unscrupulous. For instance, they consistently billed Duke as two years younger than she was, and padded her resume with some false credits.⁴ It was Ethel Ross who gave the sweeping name-change order, "Anna Marie is dead, you are Patty now." This would have painful repercussions for Duke in the decades to come. (Her professional name was chosen because the Rosses wanted her to achieve the success of Patty McCormack). ⁵

Acting Career

One of Duke's first acting jobs was on the soap opera The Brighter Day, in the late 1950s. She also appeared in print ads and in television commercials. At the age of twelve, Duke appeared on The $64,000 Question and won $32,000. Three years later, it was revealed that the game show was rigged and she was called to testify before a congressional panel.⁶

Duke's first major role was playing Helen Keller (with Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan) in the Broadway play The Miracle Worker, which ran for nearly two years. Midway through the production-run, her name was placed above the title on the marquee.

The play was subsequently made into a 1962 film, for which Duke received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. At 16, Duke was the youngest person at that time to receive an Academy Award in a competitive category. She won a Golden Globe for Me, Natalie in 1969, which also featured Al Pacino in his screen debut. In a 1979 television movie of "The Miracle Worker", Duke played Sullivan.

In 1963, Duke landed her own series The Patty Duke Show, in which she played both main characters: Patty Lane, an American teenager occasionally getting into minor trouble in school and at home; and her 'prim and proper' "identical cousin" from France, Cathy Lane. The show featured co-stars William Schallert as her Patty Lane's father, Jean Byron as her mother, Paul O'Keefe as her brother and Eddie Applegate as her boyfriend, Richard. The show had some guest stars such as Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Paul Lynde, Sal Mineo, and the show appeared on TV for three seasons and earned Duke one Emmy Award nomination.

Despite the success of her career, Duke was deeply unhappy during her teenage years. Efforts were taken by the Rosses to portray her as a normal teenager, but Duke has indicated in her memoirs that she was a virtual prisoner of them and had little control over her own life and earnings. The Rosses kept control over Duke and her mother by allowing them only a small monetary amount of money to survive on. The Rosses also began providing Duke with alcohol and prescription drugs when she was 13, which led to substance abuse problems later on (as an adult, Duke accused both John and Ethel Ross of sexual abuse).

Upon turning 18, Duke became free of the Rosses, only to find that they had squandered most of her earnings.

Singing Career

Duke had a successful singing career, garnering several Top 40 hits such as "Don't Just Stand There" in 1965, and "Dona Dona" in 1968. She performed both songs on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also during 1968, she had appeared on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson, and after George Jessel's comic appearance, she was introduced and sang an old irish song, "Danny Boy", with a passion that few could match. However, it was in the 1970 TV movie My Sweet Charlie in which she played opposite a black actor named Al Freeman Jr. in a movie involving a runaway pregnant woman (Duke) and a civil rights activist on the run for his life (Freeman, Jr.) in which an interacial relationship develops among the characters that Duke won her first Emmy Award, and made her comeback as an actress.

2000s

In 2002, Duke returned to New York to appear as Aunt Eller in a revival of Oklahoma!. She returned again in 2005 to attend a memorial service for her former co-star and actress from The Miracle Worker, Anne Bancroft, who had died of uterine cancer earlier in the year.

On November 2, 2004, it was announced that Duke would undergo single bypass surgery in Idaho, which was successful. On October 4, 2007, Duke appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, talking about her bipolar disorder to an Oprah guest, advising the guest to seek out a support group.

Other achievements

In 1985, Duke was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, the second woman to hold the position (Duke held the job until 1988). Coincidentally, in the same year she also played the first female President of the United States in the sitcom Hail to the Chief.

She authored two books, one her autobiography, Call Me Anna (ISBN 0-553-27205-5), and Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness (ISBN 0-553-56072-7)

In December, 2007, Duke was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of North Florida for her work in advancing awareness of mental health issues.⁷

Personal life

At the age of 18, Duke married director Harry Falk who was 31 years old at the time. Duke's heavy drinking coupled with suicide attempts and anorexia, stressed the marriage. Falk eventually began an affair that ended the marriage after four years.^{citation needed}

Around 1970, Duke became romantically involved with actor John Astin. She also entered into a short-lived but highly publicized affair with Desi Arnaz, Jr. The relationship did not last, partially because Arnaz's mother, TV legend Lucille Ball, did not approve of the relationship and reportedly ordered her son to stop seeing Duke.^{citation needed}

Duke quickly married rock promoter Michael Tell, whom she had only recently met. The marriage was annulled two weeks later. After her marriage to Michael Tell, Duke discovered she was pregnant with her first child. Celebrity media created the idea that the father was Arnaz. However, Duke herself believed she was carrying Astin's child. On February 25, 1971, she gave birth to her first son, Sean. She would later claim in her autobiography that her marriage with Tell was never consummated. Even though the affair with Desi Jr. had long since ended, Desi Arnaz, Sr. made a kindly visit to Duke when she was in the hospital, despite reporters outside the hospital that were eager for news that the newborn was his grandson.

In 1972, actor John Astin married Duke, adopted her son, Sean Astin who was not his own biological son, and fathered her second son, Mackenzie, who was born in 1973. Duke and Astin worked together extensively during their marriage. For a time, Patty Duke added 'Astin' to her professional name. The marriage and her children greatly improved her self confidence and her career. She received her second Emmy for the TV miniseries, Captains and the Kings, and her third for a TV version of The Miracle Worker in which she played Annie Sullivan to Melissa Gilbert's Helen Keller.

In 1985, Duke and Astin divorced, and in 1986 she married drill sergeant Michael Pearce, whom she met on the set of a TV movie, A Time for Triumph. The couple moved to Idaho and adopted a son together.

Illness

Duke has suffered from mental health issues throughout her life. In 1982, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Its treatment, which included lithium as a medication, stabilized Duke's life and put her on the road to recovery.

Duke has since become an activist for numerous mental health causes.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1958	Country Music Holiday	Sis Brand
	The Goddess	Emily Ann Faulkner, age 8
1959	4D Man	Marjorie Sutherland
	Happy Anniversary	Debbie Walters
1962	The Miracle Worker	Helen Keller	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; Nominated - Golden Globe
1963-1966	The Patty Duke Show	Patty Lane/Cathy Lane	104 episodes; Nominated - Emmy Award; Nominated - Golden Globe
1965	Billie	Billie Carol
1966	The Daydreamer	Thumbelina	Voice
1967	Think Twentieth	Herself	Short Subject
	Valley of the Dolls	Neely O'Hara
1969	Me, Natalie	Natalie Miller	Nominated - Golden Globe
1970	My Sweet Charlie	Marlene Chambers	Emmy Award
1972	You'll Like My Mother	Francesca Kinsolving
1976	Captains and the Kings	Bernadette Hennessey Armagh	Emmy Award
1978	The Swarm	Rita
1979	The Miracle Worker	Annie Sullivan	Emmy Award
1981	The Violation of Sarah McDavid	Sarah McDavid
1982	By Design	Helen
1986	Willy/Milly	Doris Niceman
1987	Fight for Life	Shirley Abrams
1989	The Hitch-Hikers
	1991	A killer among friends(film)	Jean Monroe
1992	Prelude to a Kiss	Mrs. Boyle
1998	The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights	Patty Lane/Cathy Lane MacAllister
1998-2003	Touched by an Angel	Jean	3 episodes
1999	Kimberly	Dr. Feinstenberger
2004	Judging Amy	Valerie Bing
2005	Bigger Than the Sky	Mrs. Keene/Earlene
2008	The Four Children of Tander Welch	Susan Metler

References

External links

• Patty Duke at the Internet Movie Database
• Patty Duke at the Internet Broadway Database
• Patty Duke at TV.com
• Patty Duke's Official Website
• When Young Stars Burn Out MSN Movies
• InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse: Patty Duke (TV Interview)
• The Patty Duke Fanzine

v • d • e Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Rita Moreno (1961) · Patty Duke (1962) · Margaret Rutherford (1963) · Lila Kedrova (1964) · Shelley Winters (1965) · Sandy Dennis (1966) · Estelle Parsons (1967) · Ruth Gordon (1968) · Goldie Hawn (1969) · Helen Hayes (1970) · Cloris Leachman (1971) · Eileen Heckart (1972) · Tatum O'Neal (1973) · Ingrid Bergman (1974) · Lee Grant (1975) · Beatrice Straight (1976) · Vanessa Redgrave (1977) · Maggie Smith (1978) · Meryl Streep (1979) · Mary Steenburgen (1980) Complete list · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present)

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v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie Susan Clark / Rosemary Harris (1976) · Sally Field / Patty Duke (1977) · Joanne Woodward / Meryl Streep (1978) · Bette Davis (1979) · Patty Duke (1980) · Vanessa Redgrave (1981) · Ingrid Bergman (1982) · Barbara Stanwyck (1983) · Jane Fonda (1984) · Joanne Woodward (1985) · Marlo Thomas (1986) · Gena Rowlands (1987) · Jessica Tandy (1988) · Holly Hunter (1989) · Barbara Hershey (1990) · Lynn Whitfield (1991) · Gena Rowlands (1992) · Holly Hunter (1993) · Kirstie Alley (1994) · Glenn Close (1995) · Helen Mirren (1996) · Alfre Woodard (1997) · Ellen Barkin (1998) · Helen Mirren (1999) · Halle Berry (2000) Complete list: (1954-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)

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Persondata
NAME	Duke, Patty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Duke, Anna Marie
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress
DATE OF BIRTH	December 14, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elmhurst, Queens, New York
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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