http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/arts/television/patty-duke-dies.html?_r=0
Cousins… identical cousins… you could lose your mind… when cousins… are two of a kind.
Loved that show, and loved her in The Miracle Worker. Rest in peace, Patty.
Everyone in my office has been singing the theme song. RIP.
The theme song was the first thing I thought of when I heard of her passing. RIP Patty.
I read her autobiography. Celebrity didn’t give her an easy life. I think she had a hard, painful death. Sad that they couldn’t save her. RIP.
She was an eloquent person when the cameras were not around. I remember the interviews she gave describing her mental difficulties. Through all of her problems, she did a pretty good job raising her kids, as son and actor Sean Astin has said. She was so young at 69. How sad.
I don’t think I really know her other than having heard the name. I think she is before my time. (I’m 51.)
OK, now I feel old…
She was in many shows, movies and productions. Sadly, she had a terrible childhood and a mood disorder that affected her especially in later years.
Pizzagirl, you never saw The Miracle Worker? About Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan? I’m surprised.
I still vividly remember the scene from The Miracle Worker where she and Annie Sullivan were in the dining room after Helen had been eating with her hands off everyone’s plate. At the end of the scene,Helen runs from the room, Annie is a disheveled mess, but she says to Helen’s parents word to the effect of “the dining room is in shambles, but her napkin is folded”.
In my childhood, I thought she was the COOLEST
Loved the Paaty Dike Show and Valley of the Dolls - I remember that movie too.
Vaguely - I wasn’t born when that movie came out, and I’m way too young to have seen the Patty Duke show. Sorry! My H is 55 and had the same reaction - she was just before our time!
At 13 years old, I idolized her , and would never ever miss the Patty Duke show. How many (apparently REALLY OLD) women remember when Chad and Jeremy sang in her bedroom?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FstdPCbolng
It was the nexus of cool.
Loved the “Patty Duke Show” when I was growing up… can still sing the song… and was pretty excited when I moved into Brooklyn Heights. I didn’t see The Miracle Worker when it was in the movies but I have seen it on TV many times over the years. I also strangely remember a TV movie that was very scary years ago in that her baby was kidnapped from the playpen and then comes back to that town as a grown-up to try to locate his real mother… does anyone else remember that movie?
NO do tell. It’s just the kind of thing I seek out on Youtube.
I just tried to search on IMDB but she made A LOT of TV Movies
I read her autobiography a couple years ago when one of the stations was replaying ThePatty Duke Show series. I’d loved that show, couldn’t wait to be a teen. She had quite a life.
The Patty Duke Show ran 1963-66 - I’m 56 and can remember it being on tv - unless it was reruns?
The Miracle Worker was released in 1963.
I followed her interviews about her bipolar DX. Lots of talk about the couple who raised her. She rose to be Prez of Actors Guild, didn’t she? Quite amazing, given her inner struggles.
Yes, @abasket – The Patty Duke Show was often rerun throughout the late 60s and well into the mid-70s. That’s when I watched it.
I am under 50 (though not by much, sadly) and loved the show in reruns. Remember Richard, Patty’s overly sincere yet adorable boyfriend? And one of my friend’s dads looked just like Martin Lane. Still remember the boys’ crude jokes about how “a hot dog makes her lose control.” And John Astin, her one-time husband, as the dashing Riddler on Batman (plus Gomez). Happy memories of simpler times…