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Call me Anna

ID 505278
Slug call-me-anna-patty-duke
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Description <p>The The public saw her as a gifted child&nbsp;&nbsp; the youngest actor to win an Oscar for her role&nbsp;&nbsp;as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and the&nbsp;&nbsp;youngest actor to have a prime-time television series&nbsp;&nbsp;bearing her own name.<br /><br />The What the public did not see was Anna Marie Duke, a young girl whose life changed forever at age seven when tyrannical mangers stripped her of nearly all that was&nbsp;&nbsp;familiar, beginning with her name. She was deprived of family and friends. Her every word was&nbsp;&nbsp;programmed, her every action monitored and criticized. She was fed liquor and prescription drugs, taught to lie to get work, and relentlessly drilled to win roles.<br /><br />The Out of this nightmare emerged&nbsp;&nbsp;Patty Duke, a show business legend still searching for the child, Anna. She won three Emmy Awards and divorced three husbands. A starring role in&nbsp; Valley of the Dolls nearly ruined her career. She was notorious for wild spending sprees, turbulent liaisons, and an uncontrollable temper. Until a long hidden illness was diagnosed, and her amazing recovery recovery began.<br /><br />The &nbsp; Call Me Anna is an American success story that grew out of a bizarre and desperate struggle for survival. A harrowing, ultimately triumphant story told by Patty Duke herself&mdash;wife, mother, political activist, President of the Screen Actors Guild, and at last, a happy, fulfilled woman whose miracle is her own life.</p>
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Publisher Bantam
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Language eng
Page count 311
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Publication date first 1987-01-01
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