Pizzagirl, have you ever heard of Clark Gable? Gary Cooper? Charlie Chaplin? Betty Grable? Etc. They were before your time, too!
The Miracle Worker was actually one of the very first movies I was taken to see in a movie theater – I must have been 6 or 7 years old. I remember it vividly, especially certain scenes, like the one where she first says “water.” (If it came out in 1962, I was also taken around that time to see To Kill A Mockingbird and the Marlon Brando remake of Mutiny on the Bounty – and remember them vividly as well.)