Patty Duke Net Worth

Patty Duke's Quotes

• [on her wardrobe on The Patty Duke Show (1963)] Not only did I hate those clothes, but they put my name on some and successfully merchandised them, so a lot of other poor girls were walking around with the same ugly clothes I had to wear.
• I've beaten my own bad system, and on some days, most days, that feels like a miracle.
• I subscribe to the theory that says you're a product of all your experiences. And I am finally, most of the time, happy with the product. I now think it is OK to be Patty Duke.
• [speaking of son Sean Astin and his role in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy] We call that Sean's little independent movie.
• For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

Interesting Facts about Patty Duke

1. She had been diagnosed as being manic-depressive, and had co-authored a book about the disorder, "A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive Illness".
2. Adopted a son, Kevin Pearce (born 1988), with Michael Pearce.
3. President of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) (1985-1988).
4. She was the youngest actress at the time (12) to have her name above the marquee title on Broadway ("The Miracle Worker") and the youngest ever (16) to have a television series bearing her name (The Patty Duke Show (1963)).
5. Her second marriage to Michael Tell came about suddenly during a particular virulent manic attack, ignited by a broken romance with Desi Arnaz Jr.. The marriage lasted 13 days.
6. According to her book "Call Me Anna", she was pregnant and unmarried when she met Michael Tell and she married him to give the unborn child a name. Sean was conceived around the time she was involved with John Astin.
7. She earned a gold record for her single, "Don't Just Stand There", which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart and #6 on the Cash Box Chart. Her other charting singles on Billboard and Cash Box include "Say Something Funny" (#22 & #31), "Funny Little Butterflies" (#77 & #51) and "Whenever She Holds You" (#64 & #63). Her debut album, also titled "Don't Just Stand There," reached #90 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart.
8. Grandmother of actress Ali Astin, Isabella Louise Astin and Elizabeth Louise Astin.
9. Won the Theatre World Award for Best Debut Performance for her performance as Helen Keller in the stage version of "The Miracle Worker" during the 1959-1960 Broadway season.
10. Early in her career, she appeared in television commercials, including one for the Remco Movieland Drive-In Theatre toy.
11. Sister of Ray Duke and Carol Duke Kennedy. Patty was the youngest of the three.
12. Underwent single bypass heart surgery on November 3, 2004 at Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
13. Parents are John Patrick and Frances Duke; her father was an alcoholic and left the family when Patty was very young.
14. Spoke at the memorial service for her friend and mentor, Anne Bancroft. [June 2005]
15. She won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), making her one of 17 actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2015). The other sixteen actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Jason Robards for playing Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Jeremy Irons for playing Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), DrSusan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001), Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), Sandra Bullock for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Melissa Leo for playing Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), Christian Bale for playing Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010), Meryl Streep for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) and most recently Eddie Redmayne for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014).dr.haing S.Ngor won in 1985 for playing Dith Pran in The Killing Fields.
16. Early in her career, she won the top prize on the game show The $64,000 Question (1955).
17. At the time she won her Best Supporting Actress Oscar, she was the youngest person ever to win an Oscar in a competitive category. (In 1973, Tatum O'Neal became the youngest person to win a competitive Academy Awards at age 10). This is partially because AMPAS discontinued their practice of awarding miniature Oscars to "child" actors following Hayley Mills' mini-statuette in 1961 for Pollyanna (1960), allowing actors of all ages to compete for "regular" Academy Awards.
18. Although she had been on stage and in film for over five years at the time she appeared in Valley of the Dolls (1967), she said it was her co-star Sharon Tate who taught her how to use make-up to her best advantage.
19. Though she professionally went by Patty Duke, to friends she was Anna (her birth name) Pearce (her married last name).
20. Moved, with husband Michael Pearce, to Idaho in 1990.