Patty Duke -- who died Tuesday at age 69 -- was 19 when “The Patty Duke Show” ended in April 1966. However, to an entire generation -- the Baby Boom one, or more accurately the television one ...

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 ...

Patty Duke, a onetime child actress who won an Oscar at 16 and overcame an exploited youth and ravaging mental illness to excel in television, theater and film for more than half a century, died ...

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" ... a role she reprised in the 1962 film opposite ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patty Duke, who started in entertainment as a young teen, died Tuesday morning at the age of 69. The Oscar-award winning actress died of sepsis from a ruptured intestine.

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.

Duke, born Anna Marie Pearce, followed on her early success playing the young Helen Keller with a popular sitcom, "The Patty Duke Show," which aired in the mid-1960s.

Oscar-winning TV and film actress Patty Duke, who died on Tuesday, was remembered fondly by actors, actresses, social media celebrities and mental health advocates. The former child star, who won ...