The director of Patty Duke's final movie shares heartbreaking details from her final weeks Just weeks before Patty Duke died, she was hoping to attend the premiere of a documentary called, Once in a ...

Eddie Applegate, the actor known for playing the easygoing high school boyfriend of Patty Lane on The Patty Duke Show, died Monday in Los Angeles at age 81. His son Michael confirmed his death to the ...

Patty Duke sought to raise public awareness of mental health issues when she shared her bipolar diagnosis with the world in her 1987 memoir, Call Me Anna. But for son Sean Astin, his late mother’s ...

Patty Duke had well-documented difficulties throughout her life. The Oscar-winning actress wrote about them in her 1987 book, "Call Me Anna," in which she discussed her mental illness -- a bold move ...

It happened this past week ... the passing of actress Patty Duke. Born Anna Marie Duke in the New York City borough of Queens, she grew up in a troubled home. Under the stage name Patty Duke, she ...

Patty Duke, star of such popular films and television shows as The Valley of the Dolls, The Patty Duke Show, and The Miracle Worker, died on Tuesday at age 69. As her manager reported, she passed away ...

Patty Duke, who won an Oscar as a teen for "The Miracle Worker" and maintained a long and successful career throughout her life, has died at the age of 69. Duke’s agent, Mitchell Stubbs, says the ...

Patty Duke, born on December 14, 1946 in Elmhurst, Queens, died on Tuesday morning March 29, 2016 at age 69, from sepsis from a ruptured intestine. When she started as a child actress in game shows, ...

In the early 1960s, the idea of one actress’ playing “identical cousins”–as Patty Duke did in The Patty Duke Show, which ran from 1963 to 1966–was a novelty any way you looked at it. Patty, the ...

Patty Duke -- who died Tuesday at age 69 -- was 19 when “The Patty Duke Show” ended in April 1966. However, to an entire generation -- the Baby Boom one, or more accurately the television one -- she ...

Patty Duke’s name has appeared in this column many times since Sept. 26, 1994, when I mentioned that I’d bought her album (featuring 1965 hit single “Don’t Just Stand There”) at a garage sale. For 50 ...