The Miracle Worker

TV Movie
1979
Unrated
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

791

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Patty Duke and Melissa Gilbert in The Miracle Worker (1979)

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Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf and blind Helen Keller into the light of learnedness.Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf and blind Helen Keller into the light of learnedness.Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf and blind Helen Keller into the light of learnedness.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

791

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Won 3 Primetime Emmys
- 3 wins & 5 nominations total

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The Miracle Worker

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Trivia
Patty Duke, who won an Oscar as young Helen Keller in the 1962 version, played Anne Sullivan in the 1979 TV version and won an Emmy for it.

Goofs
In the final scene, Anne's hair is completely straight. In the rest of the movie, it is very curly.

Connections
Edited into Intimate Portrait: Patty Duke (2001)

Soundtracks
Hush, Little Baby
(uncredited)
Traditional lullaby
Performed by Patty Duke
[Sung by Anne Sullivan]

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Featured review

8/10

The pupil becomes the teacher.

It was not easy to redo "the miracle worker" after Arthur Penn's masterpiece featuring Anne Bancroft's and Pattie Duke's oscar-winning outstanding performances .

It's amazing to see Duke play the teacher ;her performance is inspired and influenced by that of the great Bancroft ,but who could be better than her in a play she knows so well for having performed it on stage and on screen?Duke really rises to the occasion.

Except for the last scene at dusk , the color version is faithful to its model; in the supporting part ,Diana Muldaur is particularly good as the imploring mom,who does not understand she poisons her daughter with protection and that Helen does not need any pity.Annie's visions of her appalling past were more impressive in the black and white version ,but the color MTV work does Helen and her teacher justice.