Before looking at the Patty Duke Show cast, one has to explore the entertainment world's fascination with the idea of "twinsies" in the 1960s. For instance, there was Hayley Mills doing double ...

The Oscar and Emmy winner was a mental health advocate. — -- Patty Duke, Oscar-winning actress and the star of an eponymous TV show, died this morning, ABC News has confirmed. According to ...

Actress Patty Duke died on Tuesday at age 69, and will be remembered for her many Hollywood achievements, from her Oscar-winning turn at age 16 in “The Miracle Worker” to “The Patty Duke ...

“Anna Marie is dead,” Duke would say she was told by the marquee-minded Rosses when she was 8. “You’re Patty now.” According to Duke, the Rosses molested her, plied her with drugs and ...

Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 years. Patty Duke, best known as Helen Keller in the 1962 film The Miracle Worker, has died at the age of 69. After ...

Fifty years ago this fall, ABC premiered "The Patty Duke Show," the endearing sitcom starring the then-16-year-old as the mischievous Patty from Brooklyn Heights and her quiet, studious British ...

Patty Duke, like so many child actors before and after, lived her life in the public eye. That spotlight brought to focus her most private struggles as she became a powerful advocate for mental ...

Patty Duke had well-documented difficulties throughout her life. The Oscar-winning actress wrote about them in her 1987 book, "Call Me Anna," in which she discussed her mental illness -- a bold ...

Actress Patty Duke, who shot to fame as a teenager in the film The Miracle Worker, died Tuesday morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine at age 69, her agent said. "She was a wife, a mother ...