WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL PATTY DUKE NEWSLETTER #4!!!


"I've been aware from the beginning that the combination of Mike and me seems like culture shock to the nth degree, but the fact is the passion we feel has been so strong it's had the ability to push everything else aside."

Mike and Anna's twelth anniversary is coming up this March 15th. So I would like to wish them a happy anniversary and hope they have many many more! Too bad their not airing the Patty Duke movie "Happy Anniversary" from 1959 this Sunday, heh? So again, for Anna and he "steadfast soldier of grace", Michael Pearce, have a good one!


THIS JUST IN FROM JIM GREEN, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF THE UPCOMING "PATTY DUKE" RE-UNION SHOW.


"FYI, we just got the first draft of the story outline and are mulling it over amongst ourselves before we go to the network. The writer turned it in and went on a long overdue vacation to Hawaii until next Thursday. We will then have a conversation with him about our thoughts and get him to adjust and then we will send it to CBS for comment. After they have inputted their notes he will go to script. We expect to shoot sometime in June before the scheduled SAG (actor's) contract runs out and there is strike fever in Hollywood so we are trying to rush thru the process and be finished before the deadline. The negotiations are far apart and there is lots of posturing going on. Scary as this would shut things down for some time."


The National Canadian TV GUIDE recently told they're top twelve favorite tv women of all time. Anna came off as #5. Others included were Mary Tyler Moore, Lucille Ball, Candice Bergen, Jane Curtin, Oprah Winfrey, Julie Louis Dreyfuss , Catherine O'Hara and Elizabeth Montgomery.

Current Anna Merchandise For Sale

Call Me Anna:The Autobiography of Patty Duke. Usually ships in 24 hours
Patty Duke / Paperback / Published 1990
Our Price: $5.59 ~ You Save: $1.40 (20%)

Synopsis:
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. Bantam.

A Brilliant Madness : Living With Manic-Depressive Illness ~ Ships in
2-3 days
Patty Duke / Paperback / Published 1993
Our Price: $5.59 ~ You Save: $1.40 (20%)
Synopsis:
The New York Times bestseller--Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke's
remarkable chronicle of her struggle with manic depression along with
medical reporter Gloria Hochman's illuminating information on the
disease itself. Since her first bestselling book, Call Me Anna, Duke has
emerged as an important spokesperson for mental health. Bantam.

Just Patty/Best of Patty Duke
Patty Duke / Audio CD / Published 1996
Our Price: $12.98 (Special Order)
Synopsis:
All of Patty Duke's greatest hits which were recorded during her show in the 1960's. Also included are previously un-released tunes, three versions of "The Patty Duke Show" theme song and even a recording session of her in the studio!

Valley of the Dolls : A Novel ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
Jacqueline Susann / Paperback / Published 1997
Our Price: $9.60 ~ You Save: $2.40 (20%)
Synopsis:
Sex and drugs and shlock and more--Jacqueline Susann's addictively
entertaining trash classic about three showbiz girls clawing their way
to the top and hitting bottom in New York City has it all. Though it's
inspired by Susann's experience as a mid-century Broadway starlet who
came heartbreakingly close to making it, but did not, and despite its
reputation as THE roman á clef of the go-go 1960s, the novel turned out
to be weirdly predictive of 1990s post-punk, post-feminist, post "riot
grrrl" culture. Jackie Susann may not be a writer for the ages,
but--alas!--she's still a writer for our times. Note: Anna, Sharon Tate and Barbara Parkins (whom all starred in the film version) are all featured on the cover of this reprinted version of the 1966 novel.

All of these titles plus several of Anna's movies are available at Amazon.com! Earth's Biggest Bookstore
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/3972-4857000-129278
Also Available:

30th Anniversary Edition video of Valley of the Dolls (1967). See your local Suncoast Store. Suggested Retail:$14.95


The Hallmark Gold Crown Edition of Harvest of Fire (1996) The Highest-rated movie of 1996 is now available on a special video also featuring Harvest of Fire: An Amish Story which has interviews with cast and crew. Look for that right after the movie and look for the video at participation Hallmark Gold Crown Stores. For information as to where your local Hallmark stores are check out the Hallmark website at http://www.hallmark.com/ or AOL members go to Welcome To Hallmark .

Now the soundtrack which includes the Oscar-nominated score to Valley of the Dolls has been released on CD! It ofcourse has the "infamous" bed picture on the cover of Anna, Sharon Tate and Barbara Parkins. There is also a picture of each of the actresses head's inside pill shaped frames on the CD itself. There are also several photos from the film on the inside jacket. Suggestted Retail:$16.95




Patty Duke Internet Links:

PATTY DUKE WEBPAGE http://members.aol.com/Duke80/index1.html
My own site dedicated to the versatile actress.

The Official Patty Duke Home Page http://pattyduke.media3.net/

Official website homage to Patty Duke.

My Patty Duke / Lyndel Sue Page http://users.hsonline.net/timcox/index.htm
Great page by good friend, Tim Cox which includes his Patty Duke and vast record collection.

Patty Duke Fan Page http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/1368/
Site that even has a "Patty Duke Want List"!

The Patty Duke Show Got something to say about our favorite TV star? Than mouth off here! (AOL MEMBERS ONLY)

JUST FOUND!!! Valley of the Dolls http://www.foxhome.com/valley/htmls/menu.html
For the 30th anniversary re-releasing of the video of "Valley of the Dolls", 20th Century Fox has set up a special website celebrating It's rather small, but great!

COMING SOON:

STACEY O'BRIAN (NETTIE701@IOP.COM) AND I ARE WORKIING ON AN ANNA/SEAN & MACKENZIE ASTIN PAGE. IT WILL BE OUT SOON.


ANNA TV LISTINGS FOR THE WEEK:

Family Upside Down

105 minutes- U.S.A., 1978, Video
Directed by David Lowell Rich and starring
Fred Astaire, Helen Hayes, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Pat Crowley, Patty Duke Astin, Brad Rearden

A heart attack forces a retired house painter and his wife to become
dependent on their grown children.

Wed Mar 18 06:45A MAXE- Cinemax East
Wed Mar 18 09:45A MAXP- Cinemax Pacific
The Miracle Worker
120 minutes- U.S.A., 1962, BW, Video
Directed by Arthur Penn and starring
Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory
Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine, Kathleen Comegys

A dedicated Anne Sullivan helps young Helen Keller emerge from her
silent prison in this Oscar-winning account.

Sun Mar 15 10:30P TCM- TCM Turner Classic Movies
Thu Mar 19 02:30A TCM- TCM Turner Classic Movies


No Child of Mine

120 minutes- U.S.A., 1993
Directed by Michael Katleman and starring
Patty Duke, Tracy Nelson, Susan Blakely
Markus Flanagan, Marshall Teague, G.W. Bailey

A grandmother fights for the right to raise the handicapped child her
daughter is putting up for adoption.

Tue Mar 17 09:00P LIFE- Lifetime East
Wed Mar 18 12:00A LIFP- Lifetime Pacific


Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace

120 minutes- U.S.A., 1988
Directed by Christian I. Nyby II and starring
Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt
Patty Duke, Erin Gray, Larry Wilcox

Mason sets out to prove the innocence of a man whose murder conviction
he had upheld while serving as a judge.

Sun Mar 15 01:00P WGN- WGN Chicago

For the entire March TV listings, please check out my listings page on my site PATTY DUKE TV WATCHER http://members.aol.com/ANNAPEARCE/indextvlist.html

Also look at my current trade list, updated all the time! Remember ONLY videos are for trade! MY TRADE LIST http://members.aol.com/AnnaMDP/indexmylist.html


  Microsoft Cinemania Revisiting a classic
ByLeonard Maltin
It's always tricky revisiting a great film of the past. Will it hold up?
Will your memory of it match your current feelings? This week I got to
see 1962's The Miracle Worker on a theater screen, and I'm happy to
report that it's just as powerful, just as moving as ever. The icing on
the cake was meeting its star, Anne Bancroft, following the screening.
I don't think I'd seen the film in its entirety since it was new. I was
just a kid, and I was primed for it by a class trip to see the play -
the first Broadway show I ever attended. I've remembered the story all
these years, of blind, deaf Helen Keller, and Annie Sullivan, the
steel-willed woman who's determined to find a way to communicate with
her. It would be impossible to forget the lengthy scene - a
tour-de-force on film as well as on stage - in which the two do battle
over, under, and around a dining room table, as Annie tries to establish
who is in charge.

I also remembered the stark, black-and-white look of the film. But I
didn't remember its austere beauty, or the remarkable restraint of
director Arthur Penn in telling the story. He allows the emotions to
flow from his characters, but he never comments on them: there are no
swooping camera moves, no swelling music. (In fact, Laurence Rosenthal's
beautiful score is very spare. I can't imagine that happening today:
most 1990s moviemakers would have the music attempting to SUPPLY the
emotions.) Penn knew William Gibson's material intimately, having
directed the original Playhouse 90 television show as well as the
Broadway play that sprang from it. As Annie Sullivan shows Helen no
pity, Penn takes the same approach to his story; this is not a
sentimental film. When the final scene comes, we cry - and you can't
help but cry - because the outpouring of emotion has been earned, not
cajoled or manipulated.

The screening of The Miracle Worker and dinner to follow was organized
by the American Film Institute's AFI Associates. Anne Bancroft proved a
candid, charming, and articulate guest as I interviewed her about the
film, with interjections from her husband, Mel Brooks, who met her
during the run of the play. The first surprise she shared was that the
film was shot in New Jersey, filling in for the bucolic, antebellum
South. (She also remembered that there was a virus in the vicinity, and
two weeks before production was over she contracted walking pneumonia.
As determined as the woman she was playing, she forced herself to go to
work every day; when the movie wrapped, she collapsed and went to the
hospital.)

Wary of attending the screening, she decided to watch the film again at
home, and succumbed to it just as much as we did. She also admitted -
with prodding from her husband - that she spent a certain amount of time
admiring her youthful good looks and shiny black hair!

She credits Arthur Penn with opening the door to a true understanding of
the art of acting. He had directed her on television, and in William
Gibson's previous play, Two For The Seesaw, before they embarked on The
Miracle Worker (with just a month off in-between). As for Patty Duke,
Bancroft explained that theirs was a close-knit relationship - as it
almost had to be for the two to work together with such intensity over a
long period of time. Duke idolized her, and Bancroft admits that she
relished the role of mentor and role-model, even though she says she was
not the stable, secure woman the youthful actress pictured her to be.

As to the exceptional dinner-table battle scene, Bancroft explained that
every bit of it was written out in Gibson's script, move by move. It was
then choreographed, like a ballet. I asked how she and Duke didn't kill
each other as they manhandled one another night after night. She replied
that they DID have some injuries at first in the rehearsal process: she
slapped Patty one day while the girl's jaw was set, and it chipped off a
tooth. Then Bancroft gave herself a horrible bruise by kicking a chair;
it swelled so badly that she had to stay off her feet during much of
rehearsals. Her understudy walked through the scenes while she read her
lines with her foot propped up.

Once they set the scene, however, there were no more mishaps. Bancroft
enthused that when you really know a scene, and know a character, after
extensive rehearsals, you can feel free - as she and Duke did - to
invest the scene with emotion.

By the time the movie was made, Anne Bancroft had been playing Annie
Sullivan for one year and four months on stage. How, I asked, could she
and Patty Duke still achieve such amazing spontaneity in their
performances? Without missing a beat, she smiled and said, "Talent!"


QUOTE:

"Anything is possible" While talking to congress on the behalf of mental illness in "Call Me Anna"



Trivia:

Last week's question:

In what movie/series of Anna's did she have an identical kitchen to a very popular mid '80's-early 90's show. Name the Anna program and the show. (Hint: Anna had it first and many "behind the scenes" people were involved on both shows.)

Answer: The Anna program was "It Takes Two" which ran on ABC from 1982-83. The other show was "The Golden Girls" which starred BEA ARTHUR among others ran on NBC from 1985-92. Both were Whit-Thomas-Harris shows.

Congratulations to David100@erols.com for being the first to get this question right.

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION:

How many national TV GUIDE covers has Anna so far appeared on and what are their dates?

DOWLOAD PHOTO:
This is a very rare 1965 ad for the "Patty Duke Earring Wardrobe available through the mail for only $2.75!
Note:Enlarge the photo too see it in it's best format.


HAPPY SAINT PATTY "DUKE'S" DAY!!!