Patty Duke
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1946-12-14
Locus Natus: Elmhurst, Queens, New York, United States
Et ut: Anna Marie Duke, Patty Duke-Astin, Anna Pearce, Patty Duke Astin
The Miracle Worker
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard...
release : 1962.05.23popularis : 14.093
Valley of the Dolls
In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon...
release : 1967.12.27popularis : 12.521
The Goddess
A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.
release : 1958.06.24popularis : 4.42
Prelude to a Kiss
A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural...
release : 1992.07.10popularis : 9.481
Hitch-Hikers
In 1930s Mississippi, a traveling salesman picks up two hitch-hikers.
release : 1989.01.01popularis : 0.774
Love Finds A Home
In this sequel, Lillian has been adopted and it's several years later. Annie, married and pregnant, visits her fellow doctor friend, Dr. Owen. Dr...
release : 2009.04.11popularis : 7.671
I Love Liberty
An all-star variety special saluting America.
release : 1982.03.21popularis : 2.122
Willy/Milly
Milly is annoyed whenever her mom tells her to behave more appropriate for a girl. She's just not interested in fancy dresses or prom dances. Some...
release : 1986.11.14popularis : 2.661
The Swarm
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that...
release : 1978.07.14popularis : 14.142
Swiss Family Robinson
T.V. movie adaptation of The Swiss Family Robinson, sponsored by Rexall.
release : 1958.10.12popularis : 1.606
Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive
Jean and Shag Williams locate a newly built house and decide it's perfect for them to buy. One thing the developers forgot to tell them about was...
release : 1992.03.03popularis : 3.671
Billie
A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete becomes embroiled with the lives around her boyfriend whose conservative father is running for mayor.
release : 1965.12.13popularis : 1.007
Happy Anniversary
An accidental slip reveals that a happily married couple were intimate before marriage.
release : 1959.01.01popularis : 1.499
Fire!
The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name...
release : 1977.05.08popularis : 4.687
A Christmas Memory
A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a...
release : 1997.12.21popularis : 3.573
Amazing Love
Teen friends, Steve, Carrie, Cooper, and Gameboy embark on a weekend camping trip lead by their church youth group leader Stuart (Sean Astin) and his...
release : 2012.11.06popularis : 6.878
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the best screen tests are from the early years of...
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 3.394
Call Me Anna
Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.
release : 1990.11.11popularis : 1.005
Little John
The unmarried daughter of a Texas rancher gives birth to an unwanted child. She puts the child up for adoption and moves away from home. Without her...
release : 2002.05.05popularis : 3.189
Inside 'the Swarm'
A behind-the-scenes/Making of documentary short focused on Irwin Allen's all-star disaster flick The Swarm.
release : 1978.01.01popularis : 2.647
You'll Like My Mother
Francesca, a pregnant Los Angeles widow, journeys to her late husband's Minnesota hometown to finally meet his mother and family. After being met...
release : 1972.10.13popularis : 3.402
The Power and the Glory
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant...
release : 1963.05.31popularis : 8.663
When He Didn't Come Home
A mother (Patty Duke) goes to Chicago to try to find her son (Robert Floyd) who has suddenly quit contacting her and can't be reached.
release : 1998.05.19popularis : 1.534
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
The true story of the disappearance of Sarah Porter. With no help from the police, Sarah's parents are forced to act on their own to find her. They...
release : 1996.01.01popularis : 3.696
Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby
Baby Adrian is now all grown up and separated from his mother, wrestling with the occult influences that plague him, and trying to outrun Satan...
release : 1976.10.29popularis : 10.297
Journey to the Unknown
TV Movie consisting of two episodes of the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown" (1968): 'Matakitas is Coming' (episode 1.3) and 'The Last Visitor'...
release : 1969.06.15popularis : 1.278
Me, Natalie
Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be...
release : 1969.07.13popularis : 5.065
Family of Strangers
Julie must disclose her family's medical history before undergoing major surgery: when she questions her family, she discovers that she was adopted...
release : 1993.02.21popularis : 3.977
Best Kept Secrets
Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit....
release : 1984.03.26popularis : 1.576
Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story
A staunch professional executive and his wife coerce their rebellious teens and their older sister to take a plane trip for a weekend in the...
release : 2001.06.22popularis : 3.301
Two on a Bench
An outgoing young girl and a square stockbroker meet on a park bench in Boston and are mistaken for international spies and chased by both sides.
release : 1971.11.02popularis : 1.622
If Tomorrow Comes
In California, a young Caucasian girl and a Japanese-American boy defy local prejudices and secretly marry on Dec. 7, 1941, minutes before Pearl...
release : 1971.12.07popularis : 3.128
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
Mason defends a man he had sentenced to prison when he was an appellate-court judge. Now, 18 months after the sentencing, a new witness turns up to...
release : 1988.02.28popularis : 1.201
The Miracle Worker
The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young...
release : 1979.10.14popularis : 3.534
My Sweet Charlie
A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they...
release : 1970.01.20popularis : 4.337
Love Lessons
An older couple are about to retire, when they find out that they're about to be parents all over again.
release : 2000.11.22popularis : 3.227
The Daydreamer
A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep,...
release : 1966.06.01popularis : 6.021
The Women's Room
A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women...
release : 1980.09.14popularis : 1.607
A Family Upside Down
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown...
release : 1978.04.08popularis : 1.708
Amityville: The Evil Escapes
After moving into their matriarch's gothic seaside mansion, the Evans family soon becomes host to an uninvited demonic force in the form of a...
release : 1989.05.12popularis : 8.1
Hanging by a Thread
A group of old friends on an outing re-live various traumas and tragedies via flashback whilst trapped high above a ravine in a disabled cable-car.
release : 1979.05.08popularis : 1.76
A Killer Among Friends
A teenage girl disappears and later turns up drowned, with a log across her back. Three years later, a former friend comes forward with some answers.
release : 1992.12.08popularis : 8.817
Fight for Life
Jerry Lewis plays an Ohio optometrist who has a six-year old daughter with epilepsy. He fights to get the FDA to approve a drug (at that time only...
release : 1987.03.23popularis : 3.276
Killer on Board
The passengers on a cruise ship are seized by panic when a deadly virus begins killing off passengers and crew.
release : 1977.10.10popularis : 1.917
The Babysitter
Overprotective mother Liz Benedict meets 18-year-old orphan Joanna Redwine and hires her as house help and live-in companion to rambunctious daughter...
release : 1980.11.28popularis : 3.293
Birdbath
During the course of one night, two strangers, a lonely waif and a prodigal poet, form an unexpected connection.
release : 1971.10.29popularis : 0.434
Fatal Judgement
A Massachusetts nurse (Patty Duke) is accused of exercising Fatal Judgment in this made-for-TV movie. While tending a seriously ill cancer patient,...
release : 1988.10.18popularis : 1.852
Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women
A couple of resourceful, free-wheeling criminal attorneys with an eye for the ladies confront a no-nonsense judge while trying to clear an heiress in...
release : 1977.05.19popularis : 1.171
The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights
Original castmembers from the 60's series reunite as Patty fights to stop her longtime nemesis Sue Ellen from turning Brooklyn Heights High into a...
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 1.49
Harvest of Fire
In a small Amish community, three barns are burnt down almost simultaneously. FBI agent Sally Russwell is sent in to investigate this possible hate...
release : 1996.04.21popularis : 7.176
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after...
release : 1981.05.19popularis : 4.023
Last Wish
A woman with cancer seeks the assistance of her daughter in fulfilling her last wish - a wish to die with dignity.
release : 1992.01.12popularis : 2.509
By Design
Angie and Helen are in love. They live and work together designing women's evening wear in Vancouver. When Helen decides she wants to have a baby,...
release : 1982.05.08popularis : 0.763
Absolute Strangers
A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a...
release : 1991.04.14popularis : 2.945
When the Vows Break
Patty Duke plays a divorced woman who goes to law school to defend herself in court after a chauvinistic judge awards her rotten husband their...
release : 1995.11.01popularis : 1.926
She Waits
When a newlywed woman is taken to her husband's hometown to meet his mother, she is possessed by the vengeful spirit of his previous wife.
release : 1972.01.28popularis : 1.144
Kimberly
Four young men fall in love with the same woman. When they all find themselves attracted by Kimberly, hey vow not to fight for her affections during...
release : 1999.10.28popularis : 1.713
Please Don't Hit Me, Mom
A babysitter realizes that one of the children she looks after is being physically abused by his mother.
release : 1983.01.19popularis : 1.878
George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation
The first U.S. president (Barry Bostwick) and his wife (Patty Duke) endure two terms of turmoil from 1789 to 1797.
release : 1986.09.21popularis : 1.553
The Girl on the Edge of Town
Patty Duke Astin received an Emmy nomination for her role as a mother whose teenage daughter learns she is pregnant thus bringing back memories of...
release : 1981.04.04popularis : 0.338
The Storyteller
A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
release : 1977.12.05popularis : 1.457
Cries from the Heart
Michael, a young autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, uses a computer to plead for help after being...
release : 1994.10.16popularis : 2.605
A Season for Miracles
A miracle occurs for a homeless family consisting of two wayward children and their protective aunt with the help of an angel. When a young woman's...
release : 1999.12.12popularis : 6.339
Always Remember I Love You
Just after he turns sixteen, Robert finds out that he is adopted. His parents find to their horror that he was kidnaped from his real parents. They...
release : 1990.12.23popularis : 2.136
4D Man
Two brothers, scientists Scott and Tony Nelson, develop an amplifier which enables a person to enter a 4th dimensional state, allowing him to pass...
release : 1959.10.07popularis : 4.153
Curse of the Black Widow
Tony Franciosa plays a detective who's on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken...
release : 1977.09.16popularis : 4.525
Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door
Mark Lucas and Theresa Connolly fall in love but their overbearing mothers ruin their wedding plans and possibly their future together.
release : 2006.02.04popularis : 4.453
To Face Her Past
Beth Bradfield (Patty Duke) is a housewife with what appears to be a stable life in an American village. One day, her 24-year-old daughter Lori...
release : 1996.11.12popularis : 1.375
One Woman's Courage
Because Grace's husband Craig is having an affair she starts drinking. One night Grace witnesses a man attacking a girl; she helps her to the...
release : 1994.02.27popularis : 0.919
September Gun
Ben Sunday, a long-in-tooth gunfighter forms an uneasy alliance with a Catholic nun. The single-minded sister wants to erect a sanctuary for a group...
release : 1983.10.08popularis : 1.443
No Child of Mine
A woman attempts to stop her daughter signing away her down syndrome grandson for adoption. Based on a true story.
release : 1993.10.31popularis : 2.347
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
The maiden cruise of the ocean liner Italia travels from Italy to California for the premiere of the motion picture "Valley of the Dolls."
release : 1967.12.20popularis : 1.674
Hard Day at Blue Nose
Backwoods officers try to uncover clues about the mysterious death of a young woman at a dude ranch.
release : 1974.02.12popularis : 0.227
Meet Me in St. Louis
This adaptation of the classic 1944 film musical explores the lives of the close-knit Smith family -- mother, father, grandfather, and five children...
release : 1959.04.26popularis : 1.247
Before and After
Patty Duke loses weight and discovers her husband has been cheating on her.
release : 1979.10.05popularis : 2.153
Bigger Than the Sky
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of...
release : 2005.02.18popularis : 4.812
A Time to Triumph
Construction worker, Chuck Hassan, has a heart attack and is no longer able to work and support his family. After losing their home and savings, his...
release : 1986.01.07popularis : 1.751
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Directed by Kevin Burns, this documentary from Playboy Home Video examines the oftentimes tense relationship between sex, women, and popular...
release : 2003.09.23popularis : 5.127
Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure
Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30...
release : 1989.05.21popularis : 2.687
Unanswered Prayers
After his football career, Ben Beck returned to his Virginia small town and joined the family building firm. His family happiness with wife Lorrie...
release : 2012.02.07popularis : 1.948
Having Babies III
Dr. Julie Farr presides over three impending births and cannot help but get involved in the lives of her troubled patients.
release : 1978.03.03popularis : 1.542
Wuthering Heights
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting...
release : 1958.05.09popularis : 2.142
An American Girl
The story of a teenage girl who starts wearing a Jewish charm bracelet that she received for her birthday. She then begins to experience...
release : 1958.01.01popularis : 2.384
Power of the Air
An African Missionary shares with a Christian man in the United States how he feels the church in America is in great danger. The Christian is very...
release : 2018.10.02popularis : 2.292
Nightmare
A murder witness can't convince the police that the killer lives in the apartment across the courtyard from him, and he realizes he is the sniper's...
release : 1974.01.08popularis : 2.138
Murder Without Conviction
Recently released from her vows as a nun, Christine Bennett is discovering "life on the outside." After a visit to her mentally-handicapped cousin...
release : 2004.02.12popularis : 2.652
Deadly Harvest
An Iron Curtain defector who has been living for years as a California winegrower learns that Soviet agents are stalking him.
release : 1972.09.26popularis : 0.609
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Concerned that her feminist mom Deborah is going to stay single, Jenny Bergman plays matchmaker. She arranges a date between mom and unemployed Theo...
release : 1980.10.20popularis : 0.884
Something So Right
Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't take orders from anyone. In other words he is a...
release : 1982.11.30popularis : 0.743