Patty Duke was born Anna Marie Duke on December 14, 1946 in Elmhurst, New York, to Frances Margaret (McMahon), a cashier, and John Patrick Duke, a cab driver and handyman. She is of Irish, and one ...

Fact-based crime story linking disturbed classmates to the murder of a high-school beauty. Patty Duke, Loretta Swit. Ellen: Margaret Welsh. Jenny: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen. Carla: Angie Rae McKinney.

And two movies this year represent Deaf culture and characters. Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft won Academy Awards for their roles as Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan in 1962's The Miracle Worker.