Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke

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Overview

The Star--The 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 three husbands. A starring role in  Valley of the Dolls nearly ruined her  career. She was notorious for wild spending sprees,  turbulent liaisons, and an uncontrollable temper.  Until a long hidden illness was diagnosed, and her  amazing recovery recovery began.

The Triumph--  Call Me Anna is an American success  story that grew out of a bizarre and desperate  struggle for survival. A harrowing, ultimately  triumphant story told by Patty Duke herself--wife,  mother, political activist, President of the Screen  Actors Guild, and at last, a happy, fulfilled woman  whose miracle is her own life.

Call Me Anna is an American success story that grew out of a bizarre and desperate struggle for survival. A harrowing, ultimately triumphant story told by Patty Duke herself--wife, mother, political activist, President of The Screen Actors Guild, and at last, a happy, fulfilled woman whose miracle is her own life.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780553272055
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 5/28/1988
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 216,145
  • Product dimensions: 6.80 (w) x 11.00 (h) x 0.88 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 12, 2012

    Is it ALL true?.

    Good story and she had to overcome a LOT to get to where she is. But she said in the book that her marriage to Michael Tell was never consumated. However, in the early 1990's her son Sean Astin has DNA testing done and it showed Michael Tell is indeed his biological father. That makes me wonder how much of the rest of her life story as she telld it is accurate snd trur.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 28, 2011

    Anna is my favorite actress!

    I liked this book. It shows how a young girl can overcome so much. I am now very grateful to my wonderful family. God bless Patty Duke. On the other hand, I wish she had made her language a little cleaner. Then again im only 12 so...yeah. Good book.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 14, 2011

    ABSOLUTELY MUST READ!!!!!

    I have purchased both "Call Me Anna" and "A Brilliant Madness" and found that I could not put them down. It is such a gift to have someone of Anna Marie's (aka Patty Duke) stature to disclose such personal testimony on her childhood abuse, mental illness in the family and her own very severe struggles with Bipolar Disorder that went undiagnosed for so many years. I work with people in the mental health field struggling with severe and persistant mental illness, many with Bipolar Disorder. Anna Marie provides a ray of hope, validation and true understanding of how draumatic mental illness can be and how it permiates every aspect of a person's life, yet with threatment, many can reclaim their life and still lead productive and satisfying lives. People are not Bipolar or Mentally Ill, rather many people, both diagnosed and undiagnosed, struggle with the symptoms of a chemical imbalance resulting in a MEDICAL ILLNESS of Bipolar or other Mental Illness. Thank-you, Anna Marie Duke, for your courage and candidness in disclosing these very personal and painful issues.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 1, 2005

    Refreshingly different 'celebrity life story'

    'What's in a name?' Shakespeare's question gets a different answer in this autobiography, when a little girl named Anna Marie Duke is told by her managers, 'Anna Marie is dead. You're Patty now.' It starts there, the stripping away of a child's identity so that the managers can rebuild her to their own specifications. The one thing that makes this child worth the effort, though, is there already: phenomenal acting talent. The kind of talent that makes Patty Duke a Broadway star at twelve, and an Oscar-winner at sixteen. Alcoholism and mental illness surround her in childhood, and breaking away from her managers (who become her surrogate parents early on) just before her eighteenth birthday sets her adrift in a world for which she is totally unprepared. Pat, as she calls herself then, marries early and almost doesn't make the tricky transition from child star to adult actress. Disastrous career decisions, broken relationships, financial debacles - they're all here, and Ms. Duke recounts them without flinching. But running throughout her life story are other threads, the ones that keep her going until the manic depression that causes her roller coaster behavior is finally diagnosed and treated. This woman loves her craft, and she adores her children. Thanks to those two loves, she survives and eventually rediscovers herself. Not Patty; not Pat. Anna Marie. So many celebrity biographies end with an overdose of pills or booze, or a car crash, or a razor blade in a bathtub. I found it refreshing to read this outwardly similar tale, which ends instead with a life rebuilt. With - corny as this is going to sound - a new beginning.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 12, 2001

    Excellent

    I really appreciate this book. Patty Duke tells her story well and I applaud her for having the courage to let the whole world know about her private adversities, especially her struggle with illness. Since learning more about Patty Duke, I also highly recommend a little book by Taro Gold called 'Open Your Mind, Open Your Life' which contains many inspirational thoughts based on the Buddhism that Patty Duke practices. Excellent.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 14, 2000

    Can relate

    I loved this book!!! I read it in 2 days!!! I thought that Patty Duke told her story very well and that it took alot of courage for her to let the world know about her life and her illness!!

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