Patty Duke, Oscar Winner and Sitcom Star, Dies at 69

Hollywood Reporter ^

[Blue Turtle]

Patty Duke, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and starred as two cousins, different as night and day, on her own sitcom, has died, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. She was 69.

[austingirl]

RIP. She was wonderful in the Miracle Worker.

[CaptainK]

Her performance in “The Miracle Worker” was one of the most brilliant performances ever put on screen by child or adult, man or woman.

[onyx]

Sad.
No cause of death stated in article.

[Southnsoul]

So sad to hear that Patty Duke has passed away. I will never, ever forget her stunning performance in “The Miracle Worker.”

[A CA Guy]

Young, must have had a illness.
She did some very good work.

RIP, one of the good ones.

[Psalm 73]

Too bad her cousin Kathy didn’t have much of a career after that show - you never heard from her again. I thought she was a better actress than Patty.

[Farmer Dean]

She died of infection caused by a ruptured intestine.

[dfwgator]

Sepsis, from a ruptured intestine.

[angcat]

RIP she was great in any Lifetime movie she played in.

[stars & stripes forever]

the actress died early Tuesday morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine.

[dfwgator]

I just remembered as a regular on “The Match Game.”

[Jane Long]

Yikes. Wonder what causes an intestine to rupture.

Too young....very sad.

[Doogle]

RIP

[ObozoMustGo2012]

(Wonder what causes an intestine to rupture.)

Colonoscopy?

[Wissa]

Sepsis, from a ruptured intestine.

How does somebody get a ruptured intestine?

[onyx]

Thanks very much.

I read that in the other posted article.

Sounds awful.

[onyx]

Thanks very much.

[dfwgator]

I think that’s what happened to John Paul II as well.

[PA-LU Student]

So sad, loved her Miracle worker performance, also loved the Patty Duke show. So them as reruns on Sky Angel, back four or five years ago.