Patty Duke Editorial Image

Stage/screen/tv actress Patty Duke is seen here with actor Herschel Bernardi taking closing bows after a performance of the stage production, The Goodbye People, at the Solari Theatre in Beverly Hills, California in January, 1979. Duke won 3 Emmy Awards several Golden Globes, and an Academy Award. Her Oscar was for the role of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. She penned 2 auto-biographies and was a past president of the Screen Actors Guild. Duke suffered from bi-polar disorder and was a staunch mental health advocate. She died at 69 from sepsis due to an intestinal obstruction.