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Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke (original 1987; edition 1988)

by Patty Duke

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The Star: The public saw her as a gifted child  star: the youngest actor to win an Oscar for her role  as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and the  youngest actor to have a prime-time television series  bearing her own name. The Nightmare: 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  familiar, beginning with her name. She was deprived of family and friends. Her every word was  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. The Legend: Out of this nightmare emerged  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 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. The Triumph: 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--wife, mother, political activist, President of the Screen Actors Guild, and at last, a happy, fulfilled woman whose miracle is her own life.… (more)
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Title:Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke
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Info:Bantam (1988), Paperback, 320 pages
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about the life and career of patty duke from her rise as a child actress, to her film career as an adult, her marriages, her relationships with her children, and finally her diagnoses with bipolar disorder and her life and struggle with the the disorder since ( )
  bronwyn52 | Apr 3, 2009 |
The sad truth about children in show business. Patty Duke fought long and hard for the success she has achieved and I commend her for her strength and fortitude. ( )
  theeclecticreview | Mar 14, 2009 |
You really will call her Anna after reading this heartbreaking memoir of a vicious childhood and an adulthood rent by the extremes of manic and depressive stages of Bipolar Affective Disorder. ( )
  boeflak | May 17, 2007 |
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This book is dedicated to My Husband, my Mother, my Father, my Sister, my Brother, and my Children and theirs. And bizarre though it may be, John and Ethel Ross.
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Though I've been a professional actress since I was seven or eight, acting was never a dream of mine.
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The Star: The public saw her as a gifted child  star: the youngest actor to win an Oscar for her role  as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and the  youngest actor to have a prime-time television series  bearing her own name. The Nightmare: 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  familiar, beginning with her name. She was deprived of family and friends. Her every word was  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. The Legend: Out of this nightmare emerged  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 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. The Triumph: 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--wife, mother, political activist, President of the Screen Actors Guild, and at last, a happy, fulfilled woman whose miracle is her own life.

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