Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘The Miracle Worker’: The Helen Keller Story

Unrelenting kindness in the face of seemingly insurmountable limitations

Anne Bancroft (L) and Patty Duke star in “The Miracle Worker.” United Artists

Not Rated | 1h 46min| Biography, Drama | 28 July 1962 (USA)

The 1962 production of “The Miracle Worker” is based on an autobiographical work by Helen Keller that she wrote in 1902, titled “The Story of My Life.” This cinematic version is itself the re-creation of a Broadway play that debuted in 1959 (also titled “The Miracle Worker”), which was penned by screenwriter William Gibson.