Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke

Duke, Patty

ISBN 10: 0553052098 / ISBN 13: 9780553052091

Editore: Bantam, 1987

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Riassunto:

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

Dal risvolto di copertina interno: 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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Titolo: Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke
Casa editrice: Bantam
Data di pubblicazione: 1987
Legatura: hardcover
Condizione: Very Good
Edizione: seconda edizione