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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 to ignore telephone bells, suddenly clashed pot covers, unexpectedly fired questions. Conditioned reflexes to sight and sound came under control. The cast still remembers with amazement the night at Manhattan's Playhouse theater when a cable snapped with a loud crack high over the stage. Anne and the spaniel that plays the Keller family dog jumped a foot. Patty Duke, as the deaf Helen Keller, did not even start...
Silent Humor. Anne had known that she would be tapped for the part of Annie Sullivan ever since Gibson started working on the new play while Seesaw was still on the road. In the meantime, Anne became engaged, this time to Mario Ferrari-Ferreira, distantly related to the Italian auto family. But by the time Seesaw began its tryout in Washington, Annie was again fed up with the idea of marriage. "The play had become vitally important to me," she says matter-of-factly. "There was no time or energy for anything else." There was also another complication: her Catholicism...
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 often the grade-school child, an inveterate lap sitter. Onstage she is a polished professional who can think on her feet. Once, when a set door stuck and Anne Bancroft swore helplessly under her breath, Patty promptly began making her "noises," the grunts of the speechless, to cover Anne...
Bronx to Broadway. The approaching maturity which Patty-and her agent-would dearly love to delay, is exactly what her backstage friend Anne Bancroft has been hunting down for years. At 28, Anne has progressed from The Bronx to Broadway, where the people she portrays still seem more meaningful and manageable than Anne Bancroft herself...
...still an ignorant slob," she insists with a belligerence that suggests she intends to remain just that. But she strives mightily to make herself over, with psychiatry, acting lessons, voice lessons (she hopes to do a musical next). Twice a week she still goes to Manhattan's Institute for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation to work with blind disturbed children. It seems almost by design that she has little time left for dates, except for her platonic friendship with the Three Bears-the fatherly trio of Penn, Coe and Gibson-and with a couple of boys from the Actors...