Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke - Rilegato

Duke, Patty; Turan, Kenneth

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ISBN 10: 0553052098 ISBN 13: 9780553052091

Casa editrice: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1988

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A memoir reveals Patty Duke's traumatic and bizarre upbringing, her Academy Award-winning acting career, her headline-making behavior with drugs, drinking, and promiscuity, and her triumphant struggle to a responsible adulthood

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e public saw her as a gifted child  star: the youngest actor to win an Oscar for her role  as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and the  youngest actor to have a prime-time television series  bearing her own name.

The Nightmare--What the  public did not see was Anna Marie Duke, a young girl  whose life changed forever at age seven when  tyrannical mangers stripped her of nearly all that was  familiar, beginning with her name. She was deprived  of family and friends. Her every word was  programmed, her every action monitored and criticized. She  was fed liquor and prescription drugs, taught to  lie to get work, and relentlessly drilled to win  roles.

The Legend--Out of this nightmare emerged  Patty Duke, a show business legend still searching  for the child, Anna. She won three Emmy Awards and  divorced

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Book by Duke Patty

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• Editore: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0553052098
• ISBN 13: 9780553052091
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1