Interview w/Patty Duke re: ‘Miracle Worker’

In 2011, Patty Duke directed the play that made her famous at age 12, “The Miracle Worker.” Here is the report of the May 11, 2011, interview that she gave Jim Kershner of The Spokesman-Review:

“The 14-year-old Patty Duke was inconsolable on the day in 1961 when she filmed the final scene of “The Miracle Worker.” “I was heartbroken, absolutely heartbroken,” says Duke, 50 years later. “In fact, I’ll tell you a little secret. There is a shot of my face when a chick is being born in my hand. My face and eyes are puffy and red because I had been sobbing for hours.” “The Miracle Worker” had been Duke’s life ever since she was 12, when the smash Broadway play opened in 1959. Her co-stars, especially the great Anne Bancroft, had been her family for years. “I knew my chances of seeing those people again were slim and none,” said Duke, who is known by her real name of Anna Pearce to her Coeur d’Alene friends and neighbors. More here.