"....It was Arthur Penn's film of the [The Miracle Worker] (1962) that brought her back to movies and a working of raw emotion, torn between independence and her bond with Helen Keller, great enough to justify the dissatisfaction with her early films. The Oscar for that part was irrelevant to its frightening complexity. As well as nursing the performance of Patty Duke, she so dramatized the struggle between liberty and discipline that she probably helped reveal Penn's own talent to himself...."
David Thomson, A Biographical Dictionary of Film (3rd Edition) (1994), p. 41
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