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Release Date:
28 July 1962 (USA)
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Tagline:
An emotional earthquake! more
Plot:
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate. full summary | add synopsis
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Helen Keller
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Struggle
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Institution
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Tutor
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Teacher
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars.
Another 8 wins
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9 nominations
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Abbott & Costello, Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Screenings
(From Alternative Film Guide. 9 November 2009, 10:52 PM, PST)
The Ross Valley Players Presents The Miracle Worker 11/6-12/6
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 6 November 2009, 2:00 AM, PST)
(From Alternative Film Guide. 9 November 2009, 10:52 PM, PST)
The Ross Valley Players Presents The Miracle Worker 11/6-12/6
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 6 November 2009, 2:00 AM, PST)
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Anne Bancroft | ... | Annie Sullivan |
 | Victor Jory | ... | Captain Arthur Keller |
| Inga Swenson | ... | Kate Keller |
| Andrew Prine | ... | James Keller |
| Kathleen Comegys | ... | Aunt Ev |
 | Patty Duke | ... | Helen Keller |
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106 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Certification:
South Korea:All |
West Germany:12 (f) |
USA:Approved |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:M (original rating) |
Australia:PG (alternate rating) |
Finland:K-8
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William Gibson took Helen Keller's story to Broadway in 1959, but it was performed for the first time not on Broadway but on live television in a 1957 episode of "Playhouse 90": "Playhouse 90: The Miracle Worker (#1.19)" (1957). The two leads were Teresa Wright and 11-year-old Patty McCormack. On the Broadway stage and in the film they were Anne Bancroft and 16-year-old Patty Duke. Arthur Penn directed both the TV version and the 1962 film.
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Continuity: The way Annie holds the doll changes after Helen gets back in bed after learning 'milk.'
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Kate Keller:
What are you saying to her?
Annie Sullivan: Oh, I was just making conversation. Telling her it was a sewing card.
Kate Keller: Does that mean that to her?
Annie Sullivan: Oh, no, she won't know what spelling is till she knows what a word is.
Kate Keller: The captain says it's like spelling to a fence post.
Annie Sullivan: Does he now? It's how I watch you talk to your baby.
Kate Keller: The baby?
Annie Sullivan: Any baby. It's gibberish. Grown-up gibberish. Baby-talk gibberish. Do they understand one word of it to start? Somehow they begin to if they hear it. I'm letting Helen hear it.
Kate Keller: Other children are not impaired.
Annie Sullivan: Oh, there's nothing impaired in her head. It works like a mousetrap.
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Annie Sullivan: Oh, I was just making conversation. Telling her it was a sewing card.
Kate Keller: Does that mean that to her?
Annie Sullivan: Oh, no, she won't know what spelling is till she knows what a word is.
Kate Keller: The captain says it's like spelling to a fence post.
Annie Sullivan: Does he now? It's how I watch you talk to your baby.
Kate Keller: The baby?
Annie Sullivan: Any baby. It's gibberish. Grown-up gibberish. Baby-talk gibberish. Do they understand one word of it to start? Somehow they begin to if they hear it. I'm letting Helen hear it.
Kate Keller: Other children are not impaired.
Annie Sullivan: Oh, there's nothing impaired in her head. It works like a mousetrap.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Time of the Apes (#4.6)" (1991)
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Soundtrack:
Hush, Little Baby
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If Helen was born deaf, blind, and mute, how could she say "Wah...wah...?"Is this movie based on a novel?
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Where do I begin? Shall I speak of Mrs Bancroft's performance,one of the finest you can watch on a screen?Shall I tell about Patty Duke's tour de force?Shall I praise the mind-boggling work of Arthur Penn,mastering the long fight around the table?This movie is a miracle in itself.Behind her dark spectacles,the teacher hides buried terrors,that's why she's bound to understand her unusual pupil.She knows that the solution to her problems lies in herself,that the family is a prison .The parents do not see(or do not want to see) that they erect a wall between their daughter and the world outside by poisoning her with protection.That's why Annie seems brutal,hard on Helen.She could not have broken the wall if she had been a "nice" teacher.Among all Penn's great movies ,"miracle worker" is the only one that has an optimistic end.Since,other directors have tackled the autism(children of a lesser God,rain man)but no one has surpassed this black and white gem.