What Patty Duke, the forever-young Oscar winner, means to a generation of TV viewers. ... Patty Duke -- who died Tuesday at age 69 -- was 19 when “The Patty Duke Show” ended in April 1966.

But Patty Duke fans who remember her as the Broadway prodigy from The Miracle Worker or as the reckless young actress who kept Hollywood gossip columnists guessing are in for a shock.

Patty Duke falls into her own special niche when one discusses American movie and TV stars: 16 years old when she won her supporting-actress Oscar for her performance as unhearing, unseeing Helen ...

NEW YORK — Patty Duke, an Oscar-winning actress renowned at midcentury as a child star of stage, film, and television, who, amid public struggles with bipolar disorder, went on to cultivate a ...

Ms. Duke continued her rise on television, starring from 1963 to 1966 in the ABC sitcom "The Patty Duke Show." The young actress played two roles — Patty Lane, a bouncy American teen, and Cathy ...

Under the stage name Patty Duke, she stunned Broadway audiences at the age of 12 as the young deaf-and-blind Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker" ...

The young Duke – born Anna Marie, and who went by Anna to those who knew her best – couldn’t be said to have been photogenically “cute” – but part of her appeal was that very lack of ...

Patty Duke, like so many child actors before and after, lived her life in the public eye. Patty Duke dies at 69; Oscar winner was the youngest at the time to receive the award - Los Angeles Times ...

Patty Duke, former child star and Academy Award winner, died on Tuesday. She was ... A petite woman with a short crop of wheat-colored hair walks over to the three young actresses sitting behind her.