Anne Bancroft
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Annie convinces the family to leave her alone in the room with the child and she tries to teach Helen some manner. The experience turns violent and in the end, Mr. Keller thinks about sending Annie away. Annie tells them about her past, how she grew up in an asylum and the conditions she had to endure there.
The Miracle Worker Summary The Miracle Worker Act I Summary. The setting of the play is the 1880’s Tuscumbia, Alabama. One night, the couple Arthur Keller and Kate Keller are standing near the cot of their newborn baby girl Helen Keller. The baby is ill and the doctor assures them that she will survive. He also tells them to wait for their ...
Summary. Analysis. The play begins late at night in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in the 1880s. A couple—a young woman named Kate Keller and a “hearty gentleman in his forties” named Captain Arthur Keller —are standing around a crib, talking to a doctor. The doctor says, “She’ll live.”.
The Miracle Worker Summary. The Miracle Worker is a play by William Gibson that depicts the childhood of Helen Keller and her relationship with her teacher, Annie Sullivan. After an illness leaves ...
Summary. Act 1, Section 1 (Helen) The play opens at the Keller home in Alabama in the 1880s. An infant, Helen Keller, is in her crib, recovering from a severe illness. The attending doctor assures her anxious parents—Captain Arthur Keller and his wife, Kate—that their child is strong and out of danger. Moments later, to their horror, the ...
The Miracle Worker. Patty Duke (left) and Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker (1962). The Miracle Worker, American dramatic biopic, released in 1962, that presented the life of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie (or Anne) Sullivan; it earned Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke Academy Awards for best actress and supporting actress, respectively.
The Miracle Worker: Directed by Arthur Penn. With Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine. The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
