Patty Duke

Patty Duke

(aged 69)

Patty Duke
Duke in 1975
Born	Anna Marie Duke December 14, 1946 New York City, U.S.
Died	March 29, 2016 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Cemetery, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, US
Other names
Occupation(s)	Actress, health advocate
Years active	1950–2015
Spouses
Children	3, including Sean and Mackenzie Astin
22nd President of the Screen Actors Guild
In office 1985–1988
Preceded by	Ed Asner
Succeeded by	Barry Gordon

Anna Marie “Patty” Duke (December 14, 1946[1] – March 29, 2016) was an American actress and mental health advocate.[2] Over the course of her acting career, she was the recipient of an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

At age 15, Duke portrayed Helen Keller in the film The Miracle Worker (1962), a role she had originated on Broadway. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. The following year, she played the dual role of “identical cousins” Cathy and Patty Lane on her own network television series The Patty Duke Show (1963–1966). She progressed to more mature roles, such as Neely O’Hara in the film Valley of the Dolls (1967) and Natalie Miller in the film Me, Natalie (1969). The latter earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. From 1985 to 1988, she served as president of the Screen Actors Guild.

Duke was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1982. Following her diagnosis, she devoted much of her time to advocating for and educating the public on mental health. She was also an occasional singer and author.

Early life[edit]

Duke was born at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.[3] the youngest of three children of Frances Margaret (née McMahon), a cashier, and John Patrick Duke, a handyman and cab driver[4] of Irish descent.[5] She was raised Roman Catholic.[6]

Duke spent her early life in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens,[3] where her brother Raymond, her sister Carol, and she experienced a difficult childhood. Their father was an alcoholic, and their mother suffered from clinical depression and was prone to violence. When Duke was six, her mother forced her father to leave the family home. When Duke was eight, her care was turned over to talent managers John and Ethel Ross, who after promoting Patty’s brother, were looking for a girl to add to their stable of child actors.[7][8]

The Rosses’ methods of managing Duke’s career were often unscrupulous and exploitative. They consistently billed Duke as being two years younger than she actually was and padded her resume with false credits.[9] They gave her alcohol and prescription drugs, took unreasonably high fees from her earnings, and made sexual advances to her.[8] She never saw her father and saw her mother only when she visited to do the Rosses’ laundry.[10] In addition, the Rosses made Duke change her name. “Anna Marie is dead,” they said. “You’re Patty now.”[8] They hoped that Patty Duke would duplicate the success of Patty McCormack.[11]

Career[edit]

Acting[edit]

1950s–1990s[edit]

One of Duke’s early acting roles was in the late 1950s on the soap opera The Brighter Day.[12] She also appeared in print ads and in television commercials. In 1959, at the age of 12, Duke was a contestant on The $64,000 Question and won $32,000; her category of expertise, according to her autobiography Call Me Anna, was popular music.[13] The game show was revealed to have been rigged, and she was called to testify before a panel of the United States Senate. Duke eventually testified before congressional investigators and broke into tears when she admitted she had been coached to speak falsely.[14]

Also in 1959, Duke appeared in a television adaptation of Meet Me in St. Louis as Tootie Smith, the role that had originated in the film version by Margaret O’Brien. Duke’s first major starring role was Helen Keller (with Anne Bancroft as Anne Sullivan), in the Broadway play The Miracle Worker, which ran from October 1959 to July 1961. Duke originated the role of Keller on Broadway, although Patty McCormack actually originated the role in its earlier original presentation as a live television drama on Playhouse 90.[15] During the run, Duke’s name was elevated above the play’s title on the theater’s billboard, believed to be the first time this had been done for such a young star.[16] The play was subsequently made into a 1962 film for which Duke received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.[17] Before the film started shooting, the actress and activist Helen Keller briefly met.[18] At 16, Duke was the youngest person at that time to have received an Academy Award in a competitive category.[17] Duke returned to television, this time starring with Laurence Olivier and George C. Scott in a television production of The Power and the Glory (1961).

Duke’s own series, The Patty Duke Show, created by Sidney Sheldon especially for her, began airing in September 1963. At that time, Duke had not been diagnosed as having bipolar disorder, but Sheldon did notice that she had two distinct sides to her personality, so he developed the concept of identical cousins with contrasting personalities.[19] Duke portrayed both main characters: Patricia “Patty” Lane, a fun-loving American teenager who occasionally got into trouble at school and home, and her prim and proper “identical cousin” from Scotland, Catherine “Cathy” Lane. William Schallert portrayed Patty’s father, Martin, and his twin brother, Kenneth, Cathy’s father; Jean Byron played her mother, Natalie; Paul O’Keefe was her younger brother, Ross; and Eddie Applegate portrayed her boyfriend, Richard Harrison (though the actor was several years Duke’s senior).[16] The show also featured such high-profile guest stars as Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Paul Lynde, and Sal Mineo. The series lasted three seasons and earned Duke an Emmy Award nomination. In 1999, the program’s characters were revisited and updated in The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin’ in Brooklyn Heights, with Cindy Williams taking on the villain role of Sue Ellen Turner when Kitty Sullivan was unable to reprise her role.

After the cancellation of The Patty Duke Show in 1966, Duke began her adult acting career by playing Neely O’Hara in Valley of the Dolls (1967).[17] The film was a box-office success, but audiences and critics had a difficult time accepting all-American-teenager Duke as an alcoholic, drug-addicted singing star. While the film has since become a camp classic—thanks in large part to Duke’s over-the-top performance[20]—at the time it almost ruined her career. In 1969, Duke starred in Me, Natalie, in which she played an “ugly duckling” Brooklyn teenager struggling to make a life for herself in the Bohemian world of Greenwich Village. Duke won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress (Musical or Comedy) for the role.[21][22]

Duke returned to television in 1970, starring in a made-for-TV movie, My Sweet Charlie. Her portrayal of a pregnant teenager on the run won Duke her first Emmy Award. Her acceptance speech was rambling and disjointed,[8] leading many in the industry to believe she was drunk or using drugs at the time. In fact, Duke was experiencing a manic phase of her bipolar disorder, which remained undiagnosed until 1982.[23] She received her second Emmy in 1977 for the TV miniseries Captains and the Kings and her third in 1980 for a TV version of her 1979 stage revival of The Miracle Worker, this time playing Anne Sullivan to Melissa Gilbert’s Helen Keller. Her turns in the made-for-TV movies The Women’s Room (1980) and George Washington (1984) both garnered her Emmy nominations. In the 1980s, Duke was cast in a number of short-lived TV series. The ABC sitcom It Takes Two, from Soap and Benson creator Susan Harris, was cancelled after one season; Hail to the Chief, in which she appeared as the first female President of the United States;[16] and a comedy, Karen’s Song, which aired on the fledgling Fox network.[24]

Duke’s film roles in the 1980s included the Canadian film By Design (1981), which garnered her a Genie Award nomination for Best Foreign Actress, and the made-for-TV movie A Time to Triumph (1986), the true story of Concetta Hassan, a woman who struggles to support her family after her husband is injured, but who eventually becomes a United States Army helicopter pilot. In 1990, Duke’s autobiography, Call Me Anna, was adapted for television; she played herself from her mid-30s onward. In 1992, Duke portrayed the mother of Meg Ryan’s character in the film adaptation of the play Prelude to a Kiss. Duke received an Emmy nomination in 1999 for her appearances in three episodes of Touched by an Angel.

In 1985, Duke became the second woman, after Kathleen Nolan, to be elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, a post she held until 1988.[17] Her tenure as president was marked by factional in-fighting and controversy; however, she gained respect for managing to maintain solidarity among the guild’s members.[25] During her term, she led industrial actions and contract negotiations and oversaw the relocation of the guild’s headquarters.[25]

Later years[edit]

Duke gradually reduced her work schedule in the 2000s but took occasional TV roles, including guest appearances on shows such as Glee[26] and the reboot of Hawaii Five-0. In 2011, she joined the cast of the drama The Protector.[27] She also returned to the stage on occasion—in 2002 as Aunt Eller in a revival of Oklahoma! on Broadway[28] and in 2009 as Madame Morrible in the San Francisco production of the musical Wicked.[29] In May 2011, Duke directed the stage version of The Miracle Worker at the now defunct Interplayers Theater in Spokane, Washington.[30] In 2010, she hosted a PBS TV special When Irish Eyes Are Smiling: An Irish Parade Of Stars. The special was part of the My Music series and featured Irish and Irish-American folk music and sentimental standards.

In 2011, Duke appeared in public service announcements for the U.S. government, promoting the Social Security website. In several, she appeared as Patty and Cathy using split-screen effects. In others, she appeared with George Takei wearing a Star Trek-like costume.[31] In 2015, Duke made her final TV appearance, guest-starring on Liv and Maddie as Grandma Janice and Great-aunt Hilary, a pair of identical twins.[32]

Singing[edit]

Like many teen stars of the era, and bolstered somewhat by her appearance in the musical Billie, Duke had a successful singing career, including two top-40 hits in 1965, “Don’t Just Stand There” (number eight) and “Say Something Funny” (number 22).[33] She also performed on TV shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show.[34]

Mental health advocacy[edit]

In 1987, Duke revealed in her autobiography that she had been diagnosed with manic depression (now called bipolar disorder) in 1982, becoming one of the first public figures to speak out about her personal experience of mental illness.[8] She also suffered from anorexia nervosa and during her teenaged years, weighed as little as 76 pounds.[10] She attempted suicide in 1967 and was again hospitalized for mental health problems in 1969, eventually being diagnosed as manic depressive in 1982.[10] Her treatment, which included the use of lithium as medication and therapy, successfully stabilized her moods. She subsequently became an activist for mental health causes.[8] She lobbied the United States Congress and joined forces with the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Alliance on Mental Illness to increase awareness, funding, and research for people with mental illness.[23] In 2007, Duke appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, talking about her bipolar disorder.[35]

Memoirs[edit]

Duke wrote three books. Her autobiography, Call Me Anna (ISBN 0-553-27205-5) was published in 1987 and Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness (ISBN 0-553-56072-7) was published in 1992.[36] The third, In The Presence of Greatness—My Sixty Year Journey as an Actress (ISBN 9781629332352) (with William J. Jankowski), published posthumously in February 2018, is a collection of essays about her experiences with other artists and celebrities.

Recognition[edit]

Over the course of her career, Duke received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, three Emmy Awards in 10 nominations,[16][1] and two Golden Globe Awards amongst four nominations.[37][22] In 1963, when she won her Academy Award, Duke became the youngest person to ever win an Academy Award in a competitive category.[38]

On August 17, 2004, Duke received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to the motion-picture industry.[39] On December 14, 2007, her 61st birthday, Duke was awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters degree from the University of North Florida for her work in advancing awareness of mental health issues.[40] On March 6, 2010, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters degree from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.[41]

Personal life[edit]

Duke was married four times and had three children. A Catholic, Duke had dreams of becoming a nun in her youth.[42][43] In her later life, she studied a number of different religions, commenting in 1995: “To suggest that one must spout Moses or Jesus or Buddha or chant like Tibetan monks in order to be religious, I believe, is not to walk in the path of Christ… I have been a Christian Scientist. If there’s a religious definition of `dabbler,’ I guess that would be me. I have studied Buddhism. There was a time when I very seriously considered Judaism. And, yes, I do go to church now. I go to a Unity Church. I also go to Catholic church occasionally because the child in me desperately needs the bells and smells.”[6]

In 1965, Duke married director Harry Falk, who was 13 years her senior. It led to the end of Duke’s relationship with her childhood guardians, the Rosses.[10] During their marriage, she had repeated mood swings, drank heavily, became anorexic, and overdosed on pills a number of times.[7] The couple divorced in 1969.[7]

In early 1970, at the age of 23, Duke became involved with three men at the same time — 17-year-old Here’s Lucy star Desi Arnaz Jr.,[7] actor John Astin, who was 16 years her senior, and rock music promoter Michael Tell.[44][45] The relationship with Arnaz was widely publicized, due in part to the vocal and public opposition of Arnaz’s mother, actress and production company executive Lucille Ball. By late spring, Duke and Arnaz had broken off their relationship.

In June 1970, Duke learned that she was pregnant; she then married Michael Tell on June 26, 1970, during a manic phase,[citation needed] to “give (her child) a name.”[44] Their marriage lasted 13 days before ending in an annulment on July 9, 1970;[7] Her son, actor Sean Astin, was born on February 25, 1971. In 1985, she told Sean that Arnaz Jr. was Sean’s biological father.[44] Duke said in her 1987 autobiography that the marriage to Tell was never consummated and that Astin was the actual biological father of Sean. Several chapters in her book emphasized these assertions about her relationship with Tell and the paternity of her son. It turned out that all three statements were incorrect: in 1994, when her son Sean underwent biological testing to determine his real paternity, the results showed that Tell was his biological father.[46][47][45]

Duke married John Astin on August 5, 1972. Astin adopted Sean and the couple had a son, actor Mackenzie Astin.[16] Duke and Astin worked together extensively during their marriage, and she took his name professionally, becoming “Patty Duke Astin”. During this period, Duke underwent a hysterectomy.[10] Duke adopted Astin’s three sons, and years later in 1998, Astin’s sons reversed the adoption with Duke’s approval.[48] The couple divorced in 1985.

Duke married her fourth husband, drill sergeant Michael Pearce, in 1986, and remained married to him until her death 30 years later. Duke and Pearce had met during the production of A Time to Triumph, for which Pearce served as a consultant.[17] The couple moved to Hayden, Idaho, and adopted a son, Kevin, who was born in 1988.[17] From her marriage to Pearce until her death in 2016, Duke occasionally used the name “Anna Duke-Pearce” in her writings and other professional work.[17]

Duke had three granddaughters by her eldest son Sean, actresses Alexandra, Elizabeth, and Isabella.[49]

Death[edit]

Duke died on the morning of March 29, 2016,[50] in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, of sepsis from a ruptured intestine at the age of 69.[51] Her son Sean Astin invited the public to contribute to a mental health foundation in his mother’s name, the Patty Duke Mental Health Initiative.[52] She was cremated and her ashes were interred at Forest Cemetery in Coeur d’Alene.[53]

Filmography[edit]

Films[edit]

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1958	Country Music Holiday	‘Sis’ Brand
1958	The Goddess	Emily Ann Faulkner (age 8)
1959	4D Man	Marjorie Sutherland
1959	Happy Anniversary	Debbie Walters
1962	The Miracle Worker	Helen Keller
1965	Billie	Billie Carol
1966	The Daydreamer	Thumbelina (voice)
1967	Valley of the Dolls	Neely O’Hara
1969	Me, Natalie	Natalie Miller
1972	You’ll Like My Mother	Francesca Kinsolving
1978	The Swarm	Rita Bard
1981	By Design	Helen
1985	Gifts of Greatness	Amy Lowell	Video
1986	Willy/Milly	Doris Niceman
1992	Prelude to a Kiss	Mrs. Boyle
1999	Kimberly	Dr. Feinstenberger
2005	Bigger Than the Sky	Mrs. Keene / Earlene
2008	The Four Children of Tander Welch	Susan Metler
2012	Amazing Love	Helen
2018	Power of the Air (Christian film)	Charlene Summers	Last film role

Television[edit]

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1956	Armstrong Circle Theatre	Marianne Doona / Angelina Rico	“SOS from the Andrea Doria”, “Flare-Up”
1957	Gina	“Have Jacket, Will Travel”
1958	DuPont Show of the Month	Young Cathy	“Wuthering Heights”
1958	Kraft Television Theatre	Betty / Roberta	“A Boy Called Ciske”, “Death Wears Many Faces”
1958	Kitty Foyle	Molly Scharf (young)	TV series
1958	Swiss Family Robinson	Lynda	TV film
1958	The United States Steel Hour	Kathy	“One Red Rose for Christmas”
1958–59	The Brighter Day	Ellen Williams Dennis	TV series
1959	The United States Steel Hour	Sonya Alexandrovna / Robin Kent	“Family Happiness”, “Seed of Guilt”
1959	Meet Me in St. Louis	‘Tootie’ Smith	TV film
1959	Once Upon a Christmas Time	Lori	TV film
1961	The Power and the Glory	Coral	TV film
1962	Ben Casey	Janie Wahl	“Mrs. McBroom and the Cloud Watcher”
1962	The United States Steel Hour	Penelope	“The Duchess and the Smugs”
1963	Wide Country	Cindy Hopkins	“To Cindy, with Love”
1963	Best of Patty Duke	Patty Lane / Cathy Lane	TV film
1963–66	The Patty Duke Show	Patty Lane / Cathy Lane	Lead role
1967	The Virginian	Sue Ann McRae	“Sue Ann”
1969	Journey to the Unknown	Barbara King	“The Last Visitor”
1970	My Sweet Charlie	Marlene Chambers	TV film
1970	Matt Lincoln	Sheila	“Sheila”
1970	The Cliff	Sheila	TV film
1971	Two on a Bench	Macy Kramer	TV film
1971	Night Gallery	Holly Schaeffer	“The Diary”
1971	If Tomorrow Comes	Eileen Phillips	TV film
1972	She Waits	Laura Wilson	TV film
1972	Deadly Harvest	Jenny	TV film
1972	The Sixth Sense	Elizabeth	“With Affection, Jack the Ripper”
1972	Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law	Lois	“Love Child”
1973	Hawaii Five-O	Toni	“Thanks for the Honeymoon”
1973	Ghost Story	Linda Colby	“Graveyard Shift”
1974	Nightmare	Jan Richards	TV film
1974	ABC’s Wide World of Entertainment	Adelaide	“Hard Day at Blue Nose”
1974	The ABC Afternoon Playbreak	Melanie Kline	“Miss Kline, We Love You”
1974	Insight	Margie	“The One-Armed Man”
1975	Police Story	Daniele	“Sniper”
1975	Police Woman	Larue Collins	“Nothing Left to Lose”
1975	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Kate Gannard	“Unindicted Wife”
1976	Phillip and Barbara	Barbara Logan	TV film
1976	The Streets of San Francisco	Susan Rosen	“The Thrill Killers: Parts 1 & 2”
1976	Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby	Rosemary Woodhouse	TV film
1976	Captains and the Kings	Bernadette Hennessey Armagh	TV miniseries
1976	Insight	Annie Grogan	“For the Love of Annie”
1977	Loretta Berg	“A Slight Drinking Problem”
1977	Fire!	Dr. Peggy Wilson	TV film
1977	Rosetti and Ryan	Sylvia Crawford	“Men Who Love Women”
1977	Curse of the Black Widow	Laura Lockwood / Valerie Steffan	TV film
1977	Killer on Board	Norma Walsh	TV film
1977	The Storyteller	Sue Davidoff	TV film
1978	A Family Upside Down	Wendy	TV film
1978	Insight	Nelli Grubb	“Second Chorus”
1979	Women in White	Cathy Payson	TV film
1979	Hanging by a Thread	Sue Grainger	TV film
1979	Before and After	Carole Matthews	TV film
1979	The Miracle Worker	Anne Sullivan	TV film
1980	The Women’s Room	Lily	TV film
1980	Mom, the Wolfman and Me	Deborah Bergman	TV film
1980	The Babysitter	Liz Benedict	TV film
1981	Insight	Mother Alicia	“God’s Guerillas”
1981	The Girl on the Edge of Town	Martha	TV film
1981	The Violation of Sarah McDavid	Sarah McDavid	TV film
1981	Please Don’t Hit Me, Mom	Barbara Reynolds	TV film
1982	Something So Right	Jeanne Bosnick	TV film
1982–83	It Takes Two	Molly Quinn	Main role
1983	September Gun	Sister Dulcina	TV film
1983	Insight	Peters	“The Hit Man”
1984	Best Kept Secrets	Laura Dietz	TV film
1984	George Washington	Martha Washington	TV miniseries
1985	Hotel	Gayla Erikson	“New Beginnings”
1985	Hail to the Chief	President Julia Mansfield	Main role
1986	A Time to Triumph	Concetta Hassan	TV film
1986	George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation	Martha Washington	TV film
1987	It’s a Living	Patty Duke	“The Evictables”
1987	Fight for Life	Shirley Abrams	TV film
1987	J.J. Starbuck	Verna Mckidden	“Pilot”
1987	Karen’s Song	Karen Matthews	Main role
1988	Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace	Althea Sloan	TV film
1988	Fatal Judgement	Anne Capute	TV film
1989	Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes	Nancy Evans	TV film
1989	Everybody’s Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure	Carolyn Henry	TV film
1990	Call Me Anna	Anna Marie Duke	TV film
1990	Always Remember I Love You	Ruth Monroe	TV film
1991	Absolute Strangers	Judge Ray	TV film
1991	The Torkelsons	Catharine Jeffers	“Return to Sender”
1991	The Legend of Prince Valiant	Lady Morgana (voice)	“The Trust Betrayed”, “The Awakening”
1992	Last Wish	Betty Rollin	TV film
1992	Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive	Jean Williams	TV film
1992	A Killer Among Friends	Jean Monroe	TV film
1993	Family of Strangers	Beth Thompson	TV film
1993	No Child of Mine	Lucille Jenkins	TV film
1993	A Matter of Justice	Mary Brown	TV film
1994	One Woman’s Courage	Grace McKenna	TV film
1994	Cries from the Heart	Terry Wilson	TV film
1995	Amazing Grace	Hannah Miller	TV series
1995	When the Vows Break	Barbara Parker	TV film
1996	Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah	Natalie Porter	TV film
1996	Harvest of Fire	Annie Beiler	TV film
1996	To Face Her Past	Beth Bradfield	TV film
1997	Frasier	Alice (voice)	“Death and the Dog”
1997	A Christmas Memory	Sook	TV film
1998	When He Didn’t Come Home	Faye Dolan	TV film
1998	Touched by an Angel	Nancy Williams	“I Do”
1999	The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin’ in Brooklyn Heights	Patty Lane / Cathy Lane MacAllister	TV film
1999	A Season for Miracles	Angel	TV film
2000	Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story	Anne Kincaid	TV film
2000	Love Lessons	Sunny Andrews	TV film
2001	Family Law	Judge Sylvia Formenti	“Liar’s Club: Part 2”
2001	First Years	Evelyn Harrison	“There’s No Place Like Homo”
2002	Little John	Sylvia	TV film
2003	Touched by an Angel	Jean	“I Will Walk with You: Parts 1 & 2”
2004	Judging Amy	Valerie Bing	“Disposable”
2004	Murder Without Conviction	Mother Joseph	TV film
2006	Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door	Bridget Connolly	TV film
2009	Love Finds a Home	Mary Watson	TV film
2009	Throwing Stones	Patti Thom	TV film
2010	Unanswered Prayers	Irene	TV film
2011	The Protector	Beverly	“Wings”, “Blood”
2011	Hawaii Five-0	Sylvia Spencer	“Mea Makamae”
2012	Drop Dead Diva	Rita Curtis	“Freak Show”
2013	Glee	Jan	“All or Nothing”
2015	Liv and Maddie	Grandma Janice / Great-Aunt Hillary	“Grandma-A-Rooney”

Awards and nominations[edit]

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
1963	Golden Globe Award	Best Supporting Actress	The Miracle Worker	Nominated
Most Promising Newcomer – Female	Won
Academy Awards	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Won
Laurel Awards	Top Female Supporting Performance	Won
1964	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Series (Lead)	The Patty Duke Show	Nominated
1966	Golden Globe Award	Best TV Star – Female	Nominated
Laurel Awards	Musical Performance, Female	Billie	Nominated
1970	Female Dramatic Performance	Me, Natalie	Nominated
Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role	My Sweet Charlie	Won
Golden Globe Award	Best Actress – Comedy or Musical	Me, Natalie	Won
1977	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series	Captains and Kings	Won
1978	Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special	A Family Upside Down	Nominated
Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series	Having Babies III	Nominated
1980	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special	The Miracle Worker	Won
1981	Outstanding Individual Achievement – Children’s Programming	The Girl on the Edge of Town	Nominated
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special	The Women’s Room	Nominated
1983	Genie Awards	Best Performance by a Foreign Actress	By Design	Nominated
People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program	Won
1984	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Individual Achievement in Religious Programming – Performers	Insight	Nominated
Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special	George Washington	Nominated
Western Heritage Awards	Fictional Television Drama	September Gun	Won
1999	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series	Touched by an Angel	Nominated
2002	Temecula Valley International Film Festival	Lifetime Achievement Award	Won
2003	TV Land Award	Favorite Dual Role Character	The Patty Duke Show	Nominated
2004	Won
2014	Online Film & Television Association	OFTA TV Hall of Fame	Won

Discography[edit]

Albums[edit]

Title & Billboard Peak Position	Label	Year	Notes
Don’t Just Stand There (#90)	United Artists UAL 3452 (Mono)/UAS 6452 (Stereo)	1965
Patty	United Artists UAL 3492 / UAS 6492	1966
Patty Duke’s Greatest Hits	United Artists UAL 3535 / UAS 6535	1966
TV’s Teen Star	Unart M 20005 (Mono)/S 21005 (Stereo)	1967
Songs from Valley of The Dolls and Other Selections	United Artists UAL 3623 / UAS 6623	1967
Patty Duke Sings Folk Songs: Time To Move On	United Artists UAL 3650 / UAS 6650 (Unreleased )	1968[54]	Note: After years of remaining unreleased, Patty Duke Sings Folk Songs: Time to Move On was released by Real Gone Music (under Capitol records) on CD and digital download in 2013.

Singles[edit]

Year	Titles (A-side, B-side)	Record Label	Peak chart positions	Album
US Billboard	US Cashbox	CAN RPM
1965	“Don’t Just Stand There” b/w “Everything but Love”	United Artists 875	8	6	2	Don’t Just Stand There
“Say Something Funny”	United Artists 915	22	31	34
b/w “Funny Little Butterflies”	77	51	7	Patty Duke’s Greatest Hits
1966	“Whenever She Holds You” b/w “Nothing But You”	United Artists 978	64	63	73	Patty
“The World is Watching Us” b/w “Little Things Mean a Lot”	United Artists 50034	–	–	–
“The Wall Came Tumbling Down” b/w “What Makes You Special”	United Artists 50057 (Unreleased)	–	–	–	Non-album tracks
“Why Don’t They Understand” b/w “Danke Schoen”	United Artists 50073 (Unreleased)	–	–	–	Don’t Just Stand There
1967	“Come Live with Me” b/w “My Own Little Place”	United Artists 50216	–	–	–	Songs from Valley of the Dolls
1968	“And We Were Strangers” b/w “Dona Dona”	United Artists 50299	–	–	–	Patty Duke Sings Folk Songs

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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Further reading[edit]

• Duke, Patty; Kennen Turan (1987). Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke. Bantam Books. p. 231. ISBN 0-553-27205-5.

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