Danielle Darrieux

Although primarily a film actress, Darrieux appeared on the stage and in 1970, she replaced Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway production "Coco". All during the 1970s and through to the 21st century, Danielle Darrieux has continued to act in a remarkable career spanning eight decades. In addition, Patty Duke was:. Throughout her career, her singing voice proved a positive and during the 1960s she sang at concerts and did recordings for a French record label. You can see with whom she shares this identification by clicking on the People with Bipolar Disorder category link at the foot of this page. Successfully adapting to age, and a recognizable talent throughout Europe, she also made films in Germany, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Many attribute some of Patty Duke’s extraordinary abilities to her being affected by bipolar disorder, commonly known as manic depression. However, in 1961 she went to England at the request of director Lewis Gilbert to star opposite Kenneth More in The Greengage Summer. On November 2, 2004, it was announced that Duke would undergo single bypass surgery in her adoptive home state of Idaho.

Despite a strong cast and a competent director, the film was a critical and box office failure and it was the last English-language film she would make in America. She has written her autobiography Call me Anna (ISBN 0553272055) and Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness (ISBN 0553560727). Approaching the age of forty, she returned to Hollywood for a supporting role in United Artists' 1956 big budget epic Alexander the Great starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom. In 1984 she was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, the first woman to hold the position. Due to its sexual content, both the book and the film were banned in the United States. Duke has since become an activist for numerous causes, including an important spokesperson for mental health. Lawrence novel and the play by Philippe de Rothschild, it was adapted for the screen by co-writer and director, Marc Allégret. Ms.

The next year she starred as Lady Constance Chatterly in L'Amant de lady Chatterley (Lady Chatterly's Lover). Based on the D.H. Its treatment, which included lithium as a medication, put her on the true road to recovery. Back home, she appeared in the 1954 French drama Le Rouge et le noir opposite Gérard Philipe, one of the country's biggest box office draws. In 1982 an unusual reaction to a cortisone shot she received on a set led to her being diagnosed with manic depression. Mankiewicz lured her back to Hollywood to star opposite James Mason in the acclaimed 1952 spy thriller 5 Fingers. They have one son together of their own. Although she at once returned to her native France, the following year director Joseph L. She and Astin divorced in 1985, then in 1986 she married drill seargent Michael Pearce, who is her present-day husband.

Once again she received very positive reviews for her performance in the 1951 MGM musical, Rich, Young and Pretty. Anna still suffered from depression, however, and the episodes put a strain on her relationships. At the end of World War II, Darrieux kept her successful career going and eventually accepted another offer to appear in a Hollywood production. She received her second Emmy for the TV mini-series "Captains and the Kings" and her third for a TV version of The Miracle Worker in which she played Annie Sullivan. Rubirosa immediately married the American tobacco heiress, Doris Duke and Darrieux married her last husband, Pierre Louis. The marriage and her children greatly improved her self confidence and her career. Rubirosa was a notorious womanizer and the less than happy marriage ended within a few years and officially with a divorce in 1947. For a time, Patty Duke even added Astin to her professional name.

However, under the German occupation of France she continued to perform, a decision that was severely criticized by her compatriots. She fell in love with Porfirio Rubirosa, a Dominican Republic diplomat posted to Paris and after divorcing her husband, they married in 1942. Duke and Astin worked together extensively during their marriage. Although the film was well received by audiences and critics, World War II briefly interrupted her career. In 1972 John Astin married Duke and fathered her second son Mackenzie Astin born in 1973. in the sophisticated comedy The Rage of Paris. This was a daring thing for him to do, as there reporters outside the hospital that were eager for news that the newborn was his grandson. Offered numerous scripts, in 1938 she accepted a lucrative offer from Universal Studios to star opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. made a kindly visit to Duke when she was in the hospital.

In 1935, Darrieux married director/screenwriter Henri Decoin who, after she had made more than two dozen successful films in France, encouraged her to try Hollywood. had long since ended, Desi Arnaz, Sr. Her youthful beauty combined with her singing and dancing ability in the 1931 film immediately led to numerous other film offers and she went on to a hugely successful and enduring career. Even though the affair with Desi Jr. " At age 13, she auditioned for the role of a young girl in the musical film Le Bal and earned the part. On February 21, 1971 she gave birth to her first son Sean Astin (who has since become a major actor in his own right). Raised in the city of Paris she had a good singing voice and was musically gifted, studying the cello at the "Conservatoire de musique. Duke believed the father to be John Astin, however.

Born in Bordeaux, France, Darrieux was the daughter of a medical doctor who was at the time serving with the French Army during World War I but who later died unexpectedly when she was seven years old. Much of the public assumed that the father was Arnaz, due to the media hype of the affair, and therefore Duke was carrying the illegitimate grandchild of TV legends Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Danielle Darrieux (born May 1, 1917) is a French singer and actress. After the marriage Duke was pregnant with her first child. The marriage was annulled two weeks later. In what was likely to have been a depressive episode Duke quickly married rock promoter Michael Tell, who she had literally just met.

The relationship did not last, partially because Arnaz's mother, Lucille Ball, did not approve and reportedly ordered her son to stop seeing Duke. Around this time she became romantically involved with actor John Astin, and also entered into a short-lived but highly publicized affair with Desi Arnaz, Jr. However, Duke made a strong career comeback in the 1969 TV movie My Sweet Charlie, for which she won her first Emmy. It was during the marriage to Falk that she made Valley of the Dolls, a critical disaster that raised questions as to her ability as an adult actress.

Duke's heavy drinking and drug abuse, coupled with suicide attempts and anorexia drove the man into an affair that ended the marriage after four years. At the age of 18 she married director Harry Falk who was nearly twice her age at the time. Furthermore, she was not socially or emotionally prepared to live on her own. Upon turning 18, Duke became free of the Rosses, only to find that they had squandered most of her earnings (although she has stated that the money was nothing compared to what they had done to her life).

The phone was later connected when she befriended Frank Sinatra, Jr. Duke accused both John and Ethel Ross of sexual abuse. At the same time, efforts were taken to portray her as a normal teenager; publicity shots of Duke in her room showed a telephone which was not even connected. The Rosses also began providing Duke with alcohol and prescription drugs starting when she was as young as 13, which led to substance abuse problems later. The Rosses kept control over Duke and her mother by allowing them only a pittance.

She reports being treated as a virtual prisoner by her managers the Rosses and had little control over her own life and her own earnings. Despite the success of her career, Duke was deeply unhappy during her teenage years. The show lasted for three seasons, and earned her one Emmy Award nomination. In 1963 Duke landed her own series "The Patty Duke Show" in which she played both the main characters Patty Lane and her "identical cousin" Cathy Lane.

The play was made into the 1962 film The Miracle Worker, for which Duke received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; she was the youngest person to receive an Academy Award at age 16. Midway through the run, she was honored by having her name placed above the title on the marquee. However, Duke's first major role was playing Helen Keller (with Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan) in the Broadway play The Miracle Worker which ran for nearly two years. One of Duke's first acting jobs was on the soap opera The Brighter Day, in the late 1950s.

Ethel Ross gave the sweeping name-change order "Anna Marie is dead, you are Patty now" which, though perhaps innocently intended, resounded painfully with Anna for decades to come. The Rosses methods were somewhat unscrupulous: they consistently billed her as two years younger than she was, and padded her resume with some false credits. When she was 8, her life was essentially turned over to her managers John and Ethel Ross who recognized her talent and promoted her as a child actress. When Duke was 6, her mother threw her father out.

Her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was manic depressive prone to violence. Duke's personal life from childhood resembled something out of Dickens. In 1986 she married Michael Pierce. From 1972 to 1985, she was married to John Astin, the father of her actor children, Sean Astin and Mackenzie Astin.

She also won a Golden Globe for Me, Natalie in 1969, which also featured the first on screen role of actor Al Pacino. Born Anna Marie Duke in Elmhurst, Queens, New York, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1962 for her role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. Patty Duke (born December 14, 1946) is an actress of the stage and screen. First child actor to star in an eponymous television series, The Patty Duke Show, at the age of 16.

President of the Screen Actor's Guild from 1984-1988.