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Not who you're looking for? Others named The Miracle Worker: 1957 three-act play by William Gibson · 1962 film by Arthur Penn · 2000 US television film directed by Nadia Tass · 1936 film by Aleksandr Medvedkin
The Miracle Worker refers to a broadcast, a play and various other adaptations of Helen Keller's 1903 autobiography The Story of My Life. The first of these works was a 1957 Playhouse 90 broadcast written by William Gibson and starring Teresa Wright as Anne Sullivan and Patricia McCormack as Keller. Gibson adapted his teleplay for a 1959 Broadway production with Patty Duke as Keller and Anne Bancroft as Sullivan. The 1962 film also starred Bancroft and Duke. Subsequent television films were released in 1979 and in 2000.
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