Link (http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/03/29/oscar-winning-former-child-star-patty-duke-dies-age-69/82382666/)

Patty Duke, the teen who won an Oscar for The Miracle Worker and later played "identical cousins" in her own TV sitcom, has died. She was 69.

The news was confirmed Tuesday by one of her representatives, Mitchell Stubbs.

"Anna 'Patty Duke' Pearce passed away this morning March 29, 2016 at 1:20 am," his statement read. "Her cause of death was sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She was a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend, a mental health advocate and a cultural icon. She will be missed."

Three More Deaths in a week...

Garry Shandling...:rip:
Mother Angelica...:rip:
Patty Duke...:rip:

Sad To Hear! ohno:ohno:ohno:

Three More Deaths in a week...

Garry Shandling...:rip:
Mother Angelica...:rip:
Patty Duke...:rip:

Sad To Hear! ohno:ohno:ohno:

And James Noble.

That's so sad! BTW, I met her (and Mr. Pearce) once at a convention a few years back and even though I asked her questions about her experiences with celebs I'm sure she'd heard a few times before, they couldn't have been nicer or more gracious to me. Also, oddly enough, she was even smaller in person than I would have imagined from TV appearance. :(

I am completely shocked and heartbroken to hear about Patty Duke. I met her twice at two different autograph shows; she was such a doll and very down-to-earth both times. I bought the Season 2 DVD of her TV show from her which she signed (along with my copy of her first album). I'm going to watch the TV show for the next several nights in loving memory. :(

That's sad!! Very shocked to hear, she was another one who passed much to young. So many lately too! Patty Duke show was my older sisters very favorite TV show when she was a little girl! I liked it too seeing in reruns more recently !! She was so good being able to play two characters in the same show. Very talented actress!

RIP Patty!!!

:rip: Patty duke

Oh! I love Patty Duke! So sad to hear this . I have many of her tv movies . She was so talented. May she rest in peace. I will miss her terribly!:(

R.I.P Patty Duke

R.I.P. gone way too young

A real class act and such a terrific actress in everything she did from The Patty Duke Show to Valley of the Dolls to It Takes Two to guest appearances on everything from Ben Casey to Glee. RIP Anna, you will be missed!

Very sad to hear this but not a total surprise because in recent photos she didn't appear completely healthy and not aging well.

Classy lady, superb actress, very pretty during the 1960's and 70's. R.I.P. Patty. Maybe there will be a Patty Duke Show marathon on TV this weekend. One of the highlights of Patty's show is when she sings the song Funny Little Butterflies in the 3rd episode of season 3.

Very sad to hear this but not a total surprise because in recent photos she didn't appear completely healthy and not aging well.

Classy lady, superb actress, very pretty during the 1960's and 70's. R.I.P. Patty. Maybe there will be a Patty Duke Show marathon on TV this weekend. One of the highlights of Patty's show is when she sings the song Funny Little Butterflies in the 3rd episode of season 3.

I was thinking that too, it would be nice if they had a Patty Duke show marathon!! But it now is played on METV and they aren't that big on marathons! :( TPDS used to air on Antenna, and they do a much better job on marathons esp. when a celebrity who's show they broadcast passes away! ;)

A real class act and such a terrific actress in everything she did from The Patty Duke Show to Valley of the Dolls to It Takes Two to guest appearances on everything from Ben Casey to Glee. RIP Anna, you will be missed!

She was FANTASTIC in Valley of the dolls!! I loved that movie!! ;)


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It's hard to believe she's gone. I didn't actually see too many episodes of TPDS until a few years ago. It's a classic and Patty was great in it. She was so full of life. R.I.P. Patty. :(

:rip:

Awesome lady! She will be missed. I'll continue to remember her by watching TPDS.

She died one day before John Astin's 86th birthday. :(

Very sad. She was Mackenzie and Sean Astin's mother.

I was too young for the Patty Duke Show's original airing, and can you believe they never ran it in reruns around here? Weird.

I remember her from Valley of the Dolls, and a cute little movie called "Billie" with Warren Berlinger. She was also in "Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby" in 1976, and a lot of game shows.

Seemed like a very nice lady, and certainly one who didn't ever quite get the credit she deserved as an actress.

RIP

I was too young for the Patty Duke Show's original airing, and can you believe they never ran it in reruns around here? Weird.

I remember her from Valley of the Dolls, and a cute little movie called "Billie" with Warren Berlinger. She was also in "Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby" in 1976, and a lot of game shows.

Seemed like a very nice lady, and certainly one who didn't ever quite get the credit she deserved as an actress.

RIP
I was the same way Michael. They never reran the show where I lived. when N @ N showed it, my cable company would cut Nickelodeon off at night and by the time I got it, it was gone. I finally started watching it regularly when This TV starting airing it.

She died one day before John Astin's 86th birthday. :(


I know! My friend and I were just on the phone talking about that! :(

Yeah, we got N at N but it was after her show stopped airing on it. Too bad. I believe it only lasted two seasons, right?

I was very surprised and saddened to hear this news. She was such a fantastic actress. Sepsis scares me, so unpredictable.

I expected to see this on Chit Chat, but this makes sense too.

Yeah, we got N at N but it was after her show stopped airing on it. Too bad. I believe it only lasted two seasons, right?

3 seasons.

I was thinking that too, it would be nice if they had a Patty Duke show marathon!! But it now is played on METV and they aren't that big on marathons! :( TPDS used to air on Antenna, and they do a much better job on marathons esp. when a celebrity who's show they broadcast passes away! ;)

MeTV used to have marathons when they were just a Chicago station. Maybe now since they've gone national they don't schedule marathons anymore. Will wait and see if they have one for Patty Duke.

MeTV used to have marathons when they were just a Chicago station. Maybe now since they've gone national they don't schedule marathons anymore. Will wait and see if they have one for Patty Duke.

Like for instance when Mike Minor ( Steve from Petticoat Junction ) died, they didn't have a marathon, they just had episodes on for a week that he was featured prominently in! Shown at 7:30 the same time Petticoat Junction is always on! But than he wasn't the star of the show, so with Patty Duke maybe they will do something more? They really should! ;)

Remember the wonderful TV movies she was in..."Me, Natalie" and "My Sweet Charlie"? Although she was a bit over the top (who wasn't?) in "Valley Of The Dolls".

Was there ever a catchier theme song to a TV show?

Remember the wonderful TV movies she was in..."Me, Natalie" and "My Sweet Charlie"? Although she was a bit over the top (who wasn't?) in "Valley Of The Dolls".

Was there ever a catchier theme song to a TV show?



Neely O'Hara: I want a doll! I want a doll! :lol:

I loved Patty Duke. She was so real and candid about all the difficulties she went through. She may be gone physically, but she'll live on through her many works, which brought joy to many. I'm so glad I bought the entire series of TPDS seven years ago. She'll be deeply missed. RIP dear Patty.

I loved Patty Duke too. I grew up watching "The Patty Duke Show" on Nick at Nite and it really influenced my pre-teen years. For about 3 or 4 years, I wrapped my hair in sponge rollers every night so I could wear my hair like hers on the show. I also tried to start a newspaper business in my room after seeing the episode where Patty and Cathy sold homemade dresses. I did the great American novel bit like Patty too. I think what I got most out of the show was that nothing is impossible if you tried and came up with the cleverest idea. Over the years, I watched Patty in TV movies and interviews and it always felt like I was visiting a friend.

Farewell, Patty Duke! Thank you for the memories. I miss you already. My heart feels broken. :(

Link (http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/03/29/oscar-winning-former-child-star-patty-duke-dies-age-69/82382666/)

Patty Duke, the teen who won an Oscar for The Miracle Worker and later played "identical cousins" in her own TV sitcom, has died. She was 69.

The news was confirmed Tuesday by one of her representatives, Mitchell Stubbs.

"Anna 'Patty Duke' Pearce passed away this morning March 29, 2016 at 1:20 am," his statement read. "Her cause of death was sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She was a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend, a mental health advocate and a cultural icon. She will be missed."
:eek: RIP..

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-patty-duke-appreciation-20160330-column.html

L.A. Times film critic Kenneth Turan recalls working with Duke on her memoir, Call Me Anna, which delved into her bipolar disorder: "Perhaps what I remember most vividly about Anna was the way she managed to distill wisdom out of the worst things that had happened to her. Here is advice she took from then-husband, actor John Astin, who told her at an especially bleak moment, 'If you keep living the truth of your life, that, not the mistakes or exaggerations, is what will endure. If you live your life in truth, the truth will out.’” PLUS: Sean Astin pays tribute (http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/sean-astin-remembers-his-late-mother-patty-duke-we-celebrate-her-infinite-love-w200666) to his mom, and Duke was the original survivor of dysfunctional child stardom (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/03/29/patty-duke-the-original-survivor-of-dysfunctional-child-stardom/).

She was FANTASTIC in Valley of the dolls!! I loved that movie!! ;)


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I recall hearing an interview with her on radio that must have been in the 1980s .
She said that her performance in Valley of The Dolls was not her favorite.

I think I saw Valley of The Dolls when I was in my very early teens or slightly before. I saw it on TV and recall the ending with a house exploding
(unless I am thinking of a different movie). I only understood a certain amount of the plot. Wasn't that movie made in the very early 60s? Many years later I read that the plot is about a woman trying to get into show business and has to deal with drug or alcohol addiction as well as deal with other women who are also trying to be actresses who have eating disorders and other problems trying to look and be perfect for the public eye.

(If so, that is a plot that was ahead of its time. In the 80s or even 90s actress Susan Dey said that she had an eating disorder during the 70s while she was acting in the Partridge Family but in the 70s, it was a hardly-kown-of and hardly addressed psychological disorder. Of course, singer Karen Carpenter died of an eating disorder and an entire culture arose in which a lot of female former child or teen or young-adult actors or singers of the 60s and 70s came out telling about how they were under pressure to be thin and/or dealt with depression or bi-polar issues (Marie Osmond, Kristy McNichol, etc)

I recall watching the Patty Duke show when I was a kid in the 60s, but I did not completely understand the concept of identical cousins. Also, the theme song was sung in a way that I could not catch each word , and some of the words or sentences that were said ( or sung) I did not know the meaning of. There were only certain individual plots of the show that I completely understood. It was a show more for teens and older than kids 9 and under.

Didn't the "Patricia" character have a brother named "Ross"? I think there was an episode in which Patty literally handcuffed herself to Ross to keep her eye on him not realizing that Ross had lost the key a long time ago and there was no way to get the handcuffs off.
Also didn't the "Patricia " character have a boyfriend who was a silly high school guy? I forgot his name.

Also, anyone know what ever happened to the actors who played "Ross" and Patricia's boyfriend?

I absolutely agree! Either METV or Antenna TV should pay homage to Patty Duke with a marathon of The Patty Duke Show. The show's theme song was a classic and I also found out that it was sung by the same group who did The Flintstones theme, the Skip-Jacks.

Her death is one that is hard to take. Most importantly because she was talented and an outstanding spokesperson for those dealing with mental health issues and HIV, but also because her passing means a part of my childhood is now gone forever.

Everything I've read about her says she was a really nice person who used her celebrity for the betterment of all.

Her death is one that is hard to take. Most importantly because she was talented and an outstanding spokesperson for those dealing with mental health issues and HIV, but also because her passing means a part of my childhood is now gone forever.

Everything I've read about her says she was a really nice person who used her celebrity for the betterment of all.


Yes.
It always feels that way. It just happens sooner or later regarding people who grew up watching certain TV shows and how the actors or performers of those shows just "touched our lives." It is a cliche but it is very true for a lot of people.

There were a lot of TV shows in the 60s and 70s that could never be duplicated and though I have heard that the shows of the 60s and 70s were not as "golden" as those of the 40s and 50s , each decade had a generation growing up with certain TV characters or performers .

A lot of people who grew up or were young adults in the 40s and 50s lost their youth when people such as Gracie Allen and Jackie Gleason and Lou Costello died.

Those of us who lived through the 60s and 70s are now going to go through the loss of a lot of people of our favorite 1960s and 1970s TV shows.

There already was Bob Denver (Gilligan's island) (and there are only two surviving cast members of that show).

There was Fred Guynne (The Munsters) and there is only one surviving cast member of that show.

There was Davey Jones (The Monkees), surprisingly the older cast members have outlived him.

We are all so much older now

. I only understood a certain amount of the plot. Wasn't that movie made in the very early 60s?

Valley of the Dolls was released in 1967, probably made the same year or the year before.

I watched the Patty Duke Show in reruns growing up. I remember when I was maybe 9 or 10 and my mother insisted I watch The Miracle Worker. I also remember her making the rounds on the talk show circuit promoting her book.

She was also in a quirky movie that most people don't seem to be aware of. I remember it for one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen in a movie. The name of the movie is By Design (1982). I can't describe the scene in great detail, but it involves two men, two lesbians, an apartment, a hotel room, a telephone and a Playboy magazine.

This makes me even sadder:

Sean Astin Says Mother Patty Duke Was 'Suffering Terribly' Before Her Death

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/exclusive-sean-astin-says-mother-221100511.html

:(

http://www.closerweekly.com/posts/william-schallert-patty-duke-death-exclusive-95414

Mar 29, 2016 5:59PM
By Closer Staff

EXCLUSIVE: Patty Duke's On-Screen Father William Schallert Opens Up About the Beloved Star's Death

In an exclusive interview with Closer Weekly, William Schallert — who played Patty Duke’s father on The Patty Duke Show — reacts to the beloved star's death this morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine at age 69.

“When I think of her, she’s family as far as I’m concerned. We had a very close relationship. Whenever I saw her it was always like greeting one of my kids,” William tells Closer.

“She just had a wonderful quality and I got to know her over the years and she was admirable in a lot of ways. She really did her best to raise her own kids and she certainly had very little help in her own life to do that, but she was very mature and she did a lot of growing up very fast. People take that kind of thing for granted far too easily, and she doesn’t get the credit she deserves for that."



William tells Closer he admired Patty for being one of the first to go public with her bipolar disorder. “She was one of the pioneers who stuck her neck out so to speak to say ‘here I am’ at a time where people didn’t do that,” William says. “She had the courage to do it and she did a lot of good, I think, by doing that and by the rest of her life by example."



"For someone as young as she to step forward to say ‘we’re going to talk about this' — it showed quite remarkable maturity and real bravery on her part because that was not the kind of news that people wanted to hear until they found out what she was talking about. I think she did a lot of good.”

Very sad news. The world has lost a great talent.

It was clearly a shock, although I read some message boards claiming she doesn't look so well recently.


On the bright side, she got the chance to Twin it Up again for the Liv and Maddie episode "Grandma-A-Rooney" last year.


http://kissthemgoodbye.net/DisneyAndNickelodeon/thumbnails.php?album=311

https://twitter.com/hashtag/grandmaarooney

UPDATE: April 6, 2016:
I know Dove Cameron said she was dying to have Patty Duke as a guest star on her show in an interview once, but I never read any comments from her about Ms. Duke's death until now.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BDknF_SpBjO/

I have not heard anything about Broadway (NYC) dimming the lights for Patty.
It has been a few days since her death.
Anyone know if it was already done?
Of course I don't know for sure: Is there a certain amount of time that has to go by after the star's death before Broadway will dim the lights?

I am saddened to hear of Patty Duke's passing. I have been watching The Patty Duke Show on DVD in her memory. She will be missed. (It seems so surreal typing this with the forum nickname Cathy_Lane.)