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Mental Minor 
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TITLE |
Call
Me Anna (1990) (TV Film) |
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DISABILITY |
Mental Manic
depression |
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NOTES |
Patty Duke
acts herself in the film of her autobiography. |
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After a
great start in Helen Keller's story she now |
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concentrates
on TV films, usually in the 'disease of the week' |
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Most of the
film is about the young Patty Duke. As a child |
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actor she is
pushed along by her aunt and uncle and her |
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mother is
kept away. In fact the aunt and uncle seek a legal |
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separation
from her mother and have her sent to a |
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sanatorium.
Her father is a drunk she hasn't seen for ten |
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Early on she
is involved in a fraud on the $64,000 quiz |
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programme.
And she is coached mercilessly for the part in |
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The Miracle
Worker. But after receiving her Oscar her uncle |
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sneaks into
her bed sending her shrieking to the bathroom. |
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Later as an
adult she is a manic depressive but recovers from that. |
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This is
really only for Patty Duke fans. |
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