The Miracle Worker

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Miracle Worker, 1962.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Miracle Worker, 1962.

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At first with her boss Mr. Anagnos (Jack Hollander), Anne Bancroft (as teacher "Annie Sullivan") in her emphatically cinematic first scene in her Academy Award-winning performance, from Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker 1962.

Early in her stay with the Alabama Kellers, Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft) is more concerned with the behavior of her student Helen (Patty Duke) than with the opinions of the Captain, brother James and mother Kate (Victor Jory, Andrew Prine, Inga Swenson), in The Miracle Worker, 1962.

Famous big money-scene from Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker, 1962, after a big family blow-out, in which Annie (Anne Bancroft) teaches Helen (Patty Duke) that things have names.

Following the opening scene, credit sequence and young deaf-mute Helen Keller (Peggy Burke) getting embroiled with other kids, rescued by her mom Kate (Inga Swenson) in Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker, 1962.

Inga Swenson and Victor Jory in the intense opening scene from director Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker, 1962, from William Gibson's play, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.

Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke star in The Miracle Worker (1962), the true story of the determined teacher who taught a blind and deaf child - Helen Keller - how to communicate.