The Miracle Worker Articles

Gene Hackman, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn, who died of congestive heart failure at his New York City home on Tuesday, Sept. 28, at age 88, is best known for the 1967 classic Bonnie and Clyde, whose explicit violence was supposed to reflect the then-raging Vietnam War (or so those involved in the film claim). Now, despite its undeniable qualities — [...]

Packard Campus' November Series Intro Schedule and film information from the Library of Congress' Packard Campus website: Thursday, November 05 (7:30 pm.) THE MIRACLE WORKER (United Artists, 1962) The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate. Directed by Arthur Penn. With Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. 35 mm, black & white, 106 minutes. Copyright collection print. [...]

Anne Bancroft, the acclaimed Oscar-, Emmy-, and Tony-winning actress who appeared in dozens of plays, movies, and television productions, and the longtime wife of writer-director Mel Brooks has died. Bancroft had been suffering from uterine cancer and died on July 6 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She was 73. During the actress' five-decade-plus career, she starred in numerous prestige productions onstage, including [...]