One Duluth woman didn’t want to take any of the spotlight off of Patty Duke, or the cause she was promoting: mental health. But, the woman’s words helped explain the spotlight in the first place ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The courage that a teenage Patty Duke portrayed on-screen as Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker” was breathtaking and Oscar-winning. Duke’s own gritty struggle against bipolar ...

Sean Astin was with his mother, Anna "Patty Duke" Pearce, when she died on Tuesday morning and he shared her final moments with ET in his only on-camera interview. "She was surrounded by her family," ...

Patty Duke, the teen who won an Oscar for The Miracle Worker and later played "identical cousins" in her own TV sitcom, has died. She was 69. The news was confirmed Tuesday by one of her ...