Patty Duke and Melissa Gilbert
in The Miracle Worker
in The Miracle Worker
The 1979 TV movie version of
Williams Gibson's The Miracle Worker featured Patty Duke as Annie Sullivan and
Melissa Gilbert as Helen Keller. The story of course is about young Annie
Sullivan's attempt to educate the seemingly unteachable blind, deaf and dumb girl Helen.
Part of the original interest in the TV movie is Duke, who played Helen in the
1962 version, now taking on the role of Annie Sullivan. It's more than novelty
casting as she's quite good in the role.
I never saw either version
of The Miracle Worker until recently when I was cast as
Captain Keller (Helen's father) in a local production of The Miracle Worker.
Me as Captain Keller in The Miracle Worker
Charles Seibert plays the Captain in the television adaptation. Captain Keller is good to his
wife for the most part, mean to his son and doesn't know how to deal with his
daughter at all. He also has conflict after conflict with Annie Sullivan, but
eventually comes around to admitting her effectiveness as a teacher.
Charles Seibert as Captain Keller
Anyway, the cast from this
version:
Patty Duke-Patty appeared in
many 70's TV movies, including My Sweet Charlie, Look What's Happened
to Rosemary's Baby, Fire and Having Babies III!
Melissa Gilbert-Plays Helen Keller. Best known for Little House on the Prairie, Melissa followed up The Miracle Worker playing the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank. She has appeared in many TV movies since.
Charles Seibert-Captain Keller.
Played the smarmy doctor for many years on Trapper John, M. D.
Diana Muldaur-Mrs. Keller.
Diana was in McCloud, Star
Trek, L. A. Law and many
other TV shows over the years. TV movie credits include Genesis II and The
Word.
Director Paul Aaron's other
credit include A Force of One with Chuck Norris.
Writer William Gibson's (No,
not the cyberpunk author!) credits also include Two for the See Saw. The Miracle Worker is his best known work.
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