Film: Miracle Worker (1962)

Oscars: Best Actress for Anne Bancroft and Best Supporting Actress for Patty Duke
Thursday, 7/10/2025
5:30 - 7:15
Potrero Meeting Room
Potrero

1616 20th Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
United States

415-355-2822

With raw emotion and sometimes violence between them, Anne Sullivan is determined to teach her blind and deaf pupil, Helen Keller.  Anne Bancroft as Anne Sullivan and Patty Duke as Helen Keller delivers the performances of their lives. You would believe that this black and white film would transform into technicolor, when Helen miraculously forms the word aloud, "Water." That moment on film is a baptism, an immersion into a new life. Bring Kleenex.

Director: Arthur Penn

Stars: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke and Victor Jory

NR, 106 mins., 1962. Closed captions (CC) in English. 

 

 

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