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Tony Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role – Play: Anne Bancroft: Won Best Direction – Play: Arthur Penn: Won Best Play: Won Best Scenic Design: George Jenkins: Nominated Best Stage Technician: John Walters: Won Theatre World Award: Patty Duke: Won
The Miracle Worker is a 1962 American biographical film about Anne Sullivan, blind tutor to Helen Keller, directed by Arthur Penn.The screenplay by William Gibson is based on his 1959 play of the same title, which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series Playhouse 90.
Although there were bets made on Omar Sharif, and Angela Lansbury receiving awards in the supporting categories, their wins failed to materialize. [1] Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker earned the rare distinction of winning two acting Oscars (Best Actress for Anne Bancroft and Best Supporting Actress for Patty Duke) without a
5 nominations: The Miracle Worker; 4 nominations: Destry Rides Again and A Raisin in the Sun; 3 nominations: Sweet Bird of Youth and The Tenth Man; 2 nominations: Once Upon a Mattress and Saratoga; The following productions received multiple awards. 5 wins: The Sound of Music; 4 wins: The Miracle Worker; 3 wins: Fiorello! 2 wins: Toys in the Attic
Bancroft (left) with Patty Duke in the stage production of The Miracle Worker, 1960. Bancroft won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 1960, again with playwright Gibson and director Penn, when she played Annie Sullivan, the young woman who teaches the child Helen Keller to communicate in The Miracle Worker. [12]
Crawford, who was snubbed, ended up onstage and accepted on behalf of Anne Bancroft, who won for “The Miracle Worker,” beating Davis. Bancroft was appearing on Broadway and was unable to ...
The Miracle Worker refers to a broadcast, a play and various other adaptations of Helen Keller's 1903 autobiography The Story of My Life. The first of these works was a 1957 Playhouse 90 broadcast written by William Gibson and starring Teresa Wright as Anne Sullivan and Patricia McCormack as Keller.
The Miracle Worker is a three-act play by William Gibson adapted from his 1957 Playhouse 90 teleplay of the same name. It was based on Helen Keller 's 1903 autobiography The Story of My Life . The play's title was inspired by a Mark Twain quote: "Helen is a miracle, and Miss Sullivan is the miracle worker".