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THE MIRACLE WORKER, Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, 1962. © United Artists/Courtesy Everett Collection

‘The Miracle Worker’ Showed Movies and TV Can Change How the World Sees Disability — for Better or Worse

Patty Duke’s Oscar nominated performance in 1962’s “The Miracle Worker” wasn’t the first movie about a disabled person I saw, but it was the most ubiquitous.

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