Word: anding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Out the Window. Patty's preparation was almost as painstaking as Anne's. Her agent and his wife taught her what it means to be blind by making her navigate with eyes shut around obstacles set up in their apartment; they made her practice deafness by teaching her...
"At first," recalls Director Penn of the Seesaw rehearsal, "she could hardly find the stage. She couldn't stand. She couldn't turn. She'd play with her back to the audience. She was too broad and too vulgar. Even the lawyers and agents connected with the...
To prepare for Miracle Worker, Anne worked at the Institute for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Manhattan; she attended a workshop sponsored by Northwestern University and the American Foundation for the Blind; she practiced the manual alphabet at a camp for deaf-blind adults in Spring Valley, N.Y. And she...
The little girl and the grown woman seemed to recognize each other at once. Like Anne's, Patty Duke's childhood belonged to the streets of New York. Her father (a taxi driver) and her mother (a checker at Schrafft's) were separated; before Patty got her...
Patty's voice is almost as versatile as Anne's; she supplied the young boy's tones for Playwright Gibson's recorded offstage "voices." Although she turns 13 this week-notwithstanding the pressagentry that kept her ten years old for three years-Patty backstage is still...