A documentary feature on her won a 1955 Oscar; 7 years later, Patty Duke won an Oscar for portraying her
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Patty Duke - Wikipedia  Anna Marie "Patty" Duke (December 14, 1946  March 29, 2016) was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She first became known as a teen star, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16 for her ... The following year she was given her own show, The Patty Duke Show, in which she...
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Academy Awards Best Actress - Greatest Films  Only one actress has received four Best Actress Oscar wins, and no actress has yet .... screen roles or during the first year of their film careers (in a feature film), .... Patty Duke won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as deaf/mute ... the only performer who won an Academy Award Oscar of her own (Best Actress for...
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Hattie McDaniel - Wikipedia  Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1895  October 26, 1952) was an African American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. She is best known for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first African American to win an Academy Award .... Later, when McDaniel tried to take her "Mammy" character on a road show,...
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12 Facts You Probably Don't Know About Helen Keller - Signing Savvy  Jun 27, 2016 ... Helen Keller at 8 years old with her teacher Anne Sullivan while on vacation in ... for "Helen Keller in Her Story," awarded for Best Documentary Feature in 1956. ... else win an Oscar for portraying her in another movie about her life. ... Patty Duke, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, is the only...
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Helen Keller's forgotten Oscar | Perkins School for the Blind  Feb 25, 2016 ... Seven years later, 16-year-old Patty Duke won an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her portrayal of a much younger Keller in...
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Seven Beauties (1975) - News - IMDb  Kathryn Bigelow makes history as first woman to win best director Oscar ... She has already won the Directors Guild Award, while The Hurt Locker has won the ... have been nominated in that category: Lina Wertmuller (Seven Beauties, 1976),...
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Oscar's First Black Winner Accepted Her Honor in a Segregated 'No ...  Feb 19, 2015 ... It's been 75 years since Hattie McDaniel won for 'Gone With the ... Oscar's First Black Winner Accepted Her Honor in a Segregated 'No ... On a February afternoon in 1940, Hattie McDaniel  then one of the biggest African-American movie ... But she said, 'I'm an actress  and when you say, "Cut," I'm no...
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Marty: 1955 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Aug 8, 2014 ... LONG FILMS $1600: This 1955 Fred Astaire movie had been filmed in 1919, 1931 & as Curly Top in 1935. THE AFI'S 100 GREATEST LOVE...
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The Apartment: 1960 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Aug 13, 2014 ... Here are some of the other films nominated for awards in other categories: Pepe, Spartacus, The Facts of Life, Never on a .... DISNEY FILMS: Disney theme park attractions based on this 1960 film flew the flag seen here
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The Miracle Worker (1962) - IMDb  Biography  The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to ... Patty Duke Honored by Friends, Family at Idaho Memorial Service: 'She Had Courage Like No One I've Ever Known' ... Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker (1962) Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker (1962).
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Ben-Hur: 1959 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Aug 12, 2014 ... FILM FACTS $600: Titanic tied this 1959 film's record of 11 Oscars but didn't overtake it ... FOREIGN CINEMA $1600: Truffaut provided the story for this 1959 Godard film in which Belmondo plays a hood who kills a cop
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Marty: 1955 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Aug 8, 2014 ... MOVIE CLASSICS $500: Susan Strasburg played Kim Novak's little sister in this 1955 film based on a William Inge play. CINEMATIC SIBLINGS...
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Ben-Hur: 1959 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Aug 12, 2014 ... FILM FACTS $600: Titanic tied this 1959 film's record of 11 Oscars but didn't ... THE HISTORY OF DISNEYLAND $1600: Neuschwanstein Castle inspired the design of this heroine's castle in a 1959 film and at Disneyland
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1995 Academy Awards Winners and History - Greatest Films  It triumphantly won five Oscars - Best Picture, Best Director, Best ... Both films - Leaving Las Vegas and Dead Man Walking were nominated in the Best ... She was only the 2nd nun-playing actress in Academy history to win an Oscar for her ... first nomination) as older sister Georgia - a settled, stable, successful folk-singer in...
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My Love Of Old Hollywood: November 2011  Nov 30, 2011 ... Shirley: I don't know what divine means but she's very serious and her hair ... at the Academy Award winners, nominees and the snubs for 1934. ... Bette Davis in "Of Human Bondage" (she was a write-in candidate but more on that later) ..... the official reason being her heavy French accent not fitting with the...
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The youngest Oscar winners and nominees - Story - WGBA  Feb 23, 2016 ... She took a hiatus from acting in the 1970s, with her return cut short ... Award: Actress in a Supporting Role (1946) for "Mildred Pierce" ... Duke went on to have a highly successful acting career but also wrote books and pursues activism. ... his debut role in The Member of the Wedding, the first child actor to...
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R.I.P. Patty Duke: Dec. 14, 1946 to March 29, 2016  Mar 29, 2016 ... Anna Marie "Patty" Duke won an Oscar and three Emmys, had four ... She continued to pop pills as a teen TV star. ... But 1982's It Takes Two, 1985's Hail to the Chief (in which she played the small ... In It Takes Two (left), though, the then unknown Helen Hunt and Anthony Edwards played the two children of...
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Patty Duke - Activist, Theater Actress, Television Producer, Film ...  Apr 1, 2016 ... The late actress Patty Duke won an Academy Award in 1963 at age 16 for her portrayal of Helen Keller in 'The Miracle Worker'becoming the ... Her first big role came in 1959, when she was cast as Helen Keller in the...
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Patty Duke dies at 69; Oscar winner was the youngest at the time to ...  Mar 29, 2016 ... Patty Duke, child star and Academy Award winner for her ... In 1963, when she was just 16, she became the youngest person at the time to win an Oscar for ... The actress had already won acclaim for the role onstage. She .... Our 1962 review of Patty Duke's Oscar-winning performance: A 'Miracle' Picture?
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Best Actress Oscar Winners of the 1950s - Classic Movies - About.com  Bette Davis might have won for her brilliant role in All About Eve, the year's Best ... Gloria Swanson was equally deserving for her courageous out-of-retirement turn .... Oscar unjustly bypassed the superb Marlene Dietrich for her title role in ... Hayward finally won her fifth nomination, as a woman on death row in San Quentin.
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1995 Academy Awards Winners and History - Greatest Films  GREATEST FILMS ... 1995 Academy Awards ... BRAVEHEART (1995) ... Joan Allen in "Nixon", Kathleen Quinlan in "Apollo 13", Mare Winningham in ... Two of the five directors of Best Picture nominees were not nominated as Best Director: ... nun-playing actress in Academy history to win an Oscar for her performance,...