From a 1965 interview: ”Patty Duke is not only a girl of impeccable ... and the medication she was given triggered her first manic episode. She didn`t eat, didn`t sleep, spent enormous sums.

Patty Duke, former child star and Academy Award winner, died on Tuesday. She was 69. She may have been a theater veteran, but Duke never sang or danced on stage until Stephen Sondheim’s ...

Although she was known to the world as Patty Duke, the actress' real ... During one of Duke’s self-described manic episodes, the couple eloped, and the marriage was annulled after 13 days.

Actress Patty Duke died on Tuesday at age ... Eventually, after she was diagnosed with manic depression/bipolar disorder, Duke told all in her 1987 memoir. It was shocking at a time when mental ...

She went on to a have a successful television career, starring on "The Patty Duke Show," whose three-season run churned out more than 100 episodes. Over the course of her career, Duke would ...

Usually, a first episode happens in a sufferer's early ... the habit year round and not in association with a manic incident. Actress Patty Duke, the original "Parent Trap" twin, disclosed her ...

Her bipolar disorder, dormant for much of her youth, gripped her at 19, with the ending of "The Patty Duke Show" in 1966. The loss of the show triggered manic episodes in which she knew no ...

with the focus being on teenager Patty (Patty Duke), whose Scottish identical twin cousin, Cathy, moves in with them in the first episode. Comic gold (which fueled 104 episodes) is found in the ...

During one of Duke’s self-described manic episodes, the couple eloped ... and champion for mental health, Anna PATTY DUKE Pearce, closed her eyes, quieted her pain and ascended to a beautiful ...

Actress Patty Duke, 16, accepts the Oscar ... Eventually, after she was diagnosed with manic depression/bipolar disorder, Duke told all in her 1987 memoir. It was shocking at a time when mental ...

He adopted Sean, and he and Patty had Mackenzie together. Anna Marie Duke was born Dec. 14, 1946, and raised in Elmhurst, N.Y. She made her first television appearance in 1955 in an episode of The ...