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The Miracle Worker ()

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The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
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  • Won 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 13 nominations.
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Annie Sullivan
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Captain Arthur Keller
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Kate Keller
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James Keller
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Aunt Ev
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Helen Keller
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Maribel Ayuso ...
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Dale Ellen Bethea ...
Martha at Age 10 (uncredited)
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Admissions Officer (uncredited)
Grant Code ...
Doctor (uncredited)
Michael Darden ...
Percy at Age 10 (uncredited)
Michele Farr ...
Annie at Age 10 (uncredited)
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2nd Crone (uncredited)
Jack Hollander ...
Mr. Anagnos of Perkins School in Boston (uncredited)
Alan Howard ...
Jimmie at Age 8 (uncredited)
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1st Crone (uncredited)
Helen Ludlam ...
3rd Crone (uncredited)
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Viney - Keller Maid (uncredited)
Madge West ...
Undetermined Role (uncredited)

Directed by

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Arthur Penn

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William Gibson ... (screenplay)
 
William Gibson ... (based upon the stage play by)
 
Helen Keller ... (book "The Story of My Life") (uncredited)

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Fred Coe ... producer

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Laurence Rosenthal ... (music composed by)

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Ernesto Caparrós ... director of photography (as Ernest Caparros)

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Aram Avakian ... (edited by)

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George Jenkins

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Ruth Morley ... (costumes by)

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Herman Buchman ... make up
Ed Callaghan ... hair styles

Production Management

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Harrison Starr ... production manager
David Golden ... production manager (uncredited)

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Larry Sturhahn ... assistant director (as Larry Sturhan)
Ulu Grosbard ... assistant director (uncredited)

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Mel Bourne ... assistant art director

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Emil Kolisch ... sound
Hugh A. Robertson ... sound effects editor
Dick Vorisek ... sound (as Richard Vorisek)

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Jack Horton ... camera operator
Tom Volpe ... dolly grip (uncredited)

Music Department

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Edward Beyer ... music editor
Gloria Agostini ... musician: harp (uncredited)
Seymour Barab ... musician: cello (uncredited)
Norman Carr ... musician: strings (uncredited)
C. Robert Fine ... music engineer (uncredited) / music mixer (uncredited)
Loren Glickman ... musician: bassoon (uncredited)
Lenny Hambro ... musician: piano (uncredited)
Herbert J. Harris ... musician: drums, percussion (uncredited)
Jacob Krachmalnick ... musician: strings (uncredited)
Sam Levitan ... musician: bass (uncredited)
Charles Libove ... musician: strings (uncredited)
David Nadien ... musician: strings (uncredited)
Jerome Neff ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Matthew Raimondi ... musician: strings (uncredited)
Laurence Rosenthal ... conductor (uncredited) / orchestrator (uncredited)
Walter Trampler ... musician: strings (uncredited)
Arthur Weisberg ... musician: bassoon (uncredited)

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Maggie James ... script supervisor

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Gene Lasko ... direction aide
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Plot Summary

Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helen's walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate. Written by Christina Dunigan

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Also Known As
  • Miracle en Alabama (France)
  • El milagro de Ana Sullivan (Spain)
  • Anna dei miracoli (Italy)
  • Miracle en Alabama (Canada, French title)
  • La maestra milagrosa (Venezuela)
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  • 106 min
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Budget $500,000 (estimated)
Cumulative Worldwide Gross $38,872

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Trivia Although Patty Duke had been playing Helen Keller in the play for more than a year, she almost didn't get the part in the film adaptation. The studio felt that being a teenager, she looked too old to play a seven-year-old. However, they decided to use Duke after deciding to use Anne Bancroft, who played Duke's original Annie Sullivan in the play. See more »
Goofs Annie Sullivan has to look up the word discipline in a dictionary later in the film even though she's used it in a letter near the beginning; however, she remarks that she must know how to spell it before teaching it to Helen, and may have simply used her best guess in the letter since nothing was at stake. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Le contrôle de l'univers (1999). See more »
Soundtracks Hush, Little Baby See more »
Quotes Annie Sullivan: I have to live with her somewhere else.
Kate Keller: For how long?
Annie Sullivan: Until she learns to listen to and depend on me.
Captain Arthur Keller: Miss Sullivan...
Annie Sullivan: Captain Keller, it meets both of your conditions. It's the one way I can get back in touch with Helen, and I don't see how I can be rude to you again if you're not around to interfere with me.
Captain Arthur Keller: And what's your plan if I say no? Pack the other half for home and abandon your charge to... to...
Annie Sullivan: The asylum? I grew up in such an asylum, the State Alms House. Rats? Why, my brother Jimmy and I used to play with the rats because we didn't have any toys. Maybe you'd like to know what Helen will find there, not on visiting days. One ward was full of the old women. Crippled, blind, most of them dying, but even if what they had was catching, there was nowhere else to move them. That's where they put us. Then there were younger ones across the hall, prostitutes mostly, with TB and epileptic fits. And some of the kind that keep after other girls, especially the young ones. And some were just insane. Some had the DTs. Then there were girls in another ward to have babies they didn't want. They started at thirteen, fourteen. They left afterwards, but the babies stayed. We played with them, too. There were a lot of them, with sores all over from diseases you're not supposed to talk about.
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