Patty DUKE on InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse 

Patty Duke is a wonderful human being. The respect I have for her as an accomplished actress has just been eclipsed by my newly found admiration for her personal courage and heartfelt advocacy. Bravo, Ms. Duke!

What a fantastic interview. I love Patty Duke and was so sad to hear of her passing. RIP

I love Patty Duke not only as an actress but as a true survivor. She could easily have succumbed because of her illness BUT DIDN'Tas so many celebrities have. Would love to meet her and tell her but she probably has heard it before!

A pioneer in mental health advocacy!

This is actually making me very teary eyed. RIP to Patty Duke. i never realized she was biopolar. unbelievable interview Ernie. great job

I love this woman. She is so thoughtful about her life, friends and even the interviewer. A kind fearfully honest person.

What a great, great human being. So honest. So real. RIP Anna!💗

I always did like Patty-Anna Duke, good actress, sorry of Her passing.RIP

Patty Duke may be an amazing actress but she's so much more amazing as a simple human being. She is so real and honest.

This guy is a great interviewer!

And she looks wonderful in this interview. I’ve loved her work since the Patty Duke Show was originally on. She was so cute and pretty,and such a talented actress. Bless her departed soul.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Loved Patty Duke. Read her first book when it first came out. Really sad when she died. Her son is a chip off the block. He brings a real sweetness to his roles. She must be proud.

patty/anna, you have always had my heart. God bless John too.

God bless you Patty Duke for being so brave with bi-polar disorder as I have it myself and was hospitalized with it 4 times. I know exactly what you were talking about in your book.

I miss Patty Duke. RIP

Years ago, long before there was a Miley Cirus or Taylor Swift; this lady was the "famous" person who I looked up to. She was an Oscar award winner who also had her own tv show. She portrayed the teenager who I wanted to be but never could. She was funny, cute, popular & everything I was not. I think a lot of us "idolize" others because we see in them; a person who has it all... Well, today is a sad day for me because Patty Duke is no longer with us. She is gone way to soon. I was shocked when my husband told me he saw this online..How can it be true? It must be a mistake.. But it is no mistake.. I was so excited when I got to meet her in person a few yrs ago; I could hardly talk. I thought about all the things I wanted to say; on how she made my teen years so much better just by making me smile. But my mouth wouldn't say the words..I was almost speechless..So I am sending prayers to heaven to thank her. Rest in peace, Anna Marie Duke.

Best actress and a great singer. I still love and miss her very much.

So impressed with the courage and humor that Patty utilized in owning and dealing with her own foibles, however minor/major they may have been. Even moreso, her commitment to advocacy and the wellness of others has solidified her role as a great human being, in addition to a great actress. Giving back is the greatest gift to oneself.

I love Patty! One of my favorite actresses!

Patty left us too young I miss her 🙏🕊️ Great great actress .

I love her comment that "moody may be a character flaw, bipolar is not". Excellent perspective.

Fascinating interview and subject. Anna Duke is legend, not just for her great acting career but for her extraordinary life.

Such an inspiration. Thank you.

Patty was a wonderful human being so very honest & genuinely nice, it’s very refreshing and I can identify with much of what she says especially since I also have Bipolar disorder.

i loved her movies and acting ..a rare real talent.

Ernie sure knows how to interview....he's the best.

If only I could have gotten treatment for my bipolar depression before I became a husband and father. My childhood was a living nightmare.

I remember asking my brother how one person can’t play two different characters in the same show ? She was amazing in the Patty Duke show h 😃

Just heard about her death. She was a courageous, talented woman!

I have had Bipolar I my entire life. I was in my teens when I discovered that Patty Duke had it, too, and I started paying close attention to her. I felt kind of like she was my "Bipolar Mom," if that makes sense. She inspired...no, she still DOES inspire...me to improve myself and reach for the peace and love left in life.

She was so ahead of her time. A truth seeker, a pioneer, I love her still.

Patti Duke is really pretty! Makes me wonder why so many get botox and collagen. Age happens and when you let it happen the way it's supposed to, the results can be quite beautiful. Just something I noticed.

Love to watch The old patty Duke show. It's on now...loved her as Helen Keller.

Patty/Anna is one tough broad.

I love to watch A Season For Miracles where she played an angel. I loved the Patty Duke Show. I had forgotten that her first name was really Anna. I miss her so much.

Love to hear when people pull the covers off and take charge of this illness

Class act and a wonderful entertainer

It's comments like some of these that make living w/ a mental illness unbearable at times. Bipolar disorder, which I suffer, is very much genetic & not a "learned" behavior. To make such an assumption is not only disrespectful but highly ignorant. Anna has taken responsibility for her actions, forgiven not only her abusers but herself & has moved on. She has, in fact, overcome her illness, even though it is a lifelong struggle, & now chooses to help others despite backlash of this nature.

"God Bless Her Soul ..."

Always been a fan, will always be

God bless her. She is missed.

Rest in peace, Patty. You certainly deserve it.

A lovely intelligent person..

Fabulous interview with a fabulous lady.

I'm glad she was able to get help. She was a great actress. A " Natural". I do beleive had she not had so many personal problems her career would have equaled that of Bette Davis. She keep nail any role.

I wish I could have met her, unfortunately that will never happen 😥

R I P

a lady sooo well loved

Ernie is such a good interviewer.

rip

She's great.. episode when she lays a psychic is totally hilarious.

RIP

The doctor told us that the gene for the disease was passed from father to child. My late-husband had Bi-polar disorder. He could be hard to understand or live with, but we had our 25th anniversary when he was 68. His diabetes killed him months later.

RIP Anna

She's alive and well.

wish the sound was better

It's a hard thing to hear, but sadly true. Problem is one doesn't want to believe it has anything to do with them, when indeed it does. By all accounts, they have the power to overcome it, but don't want to believe it.

I wonder what Patty thought of working with Sal Mineo on her own show?

Thought it was Barbara Billingsley.

The interviewer is very good and he listens, which is so important and and my interviewers don't - I find her a bit forced I have to say but wish her well and good health, physical and mental.

Like Cathy role in show much more

A hotdog made her lose control.

The Patty Duke show , 2 people at once hmmmmm!

Lol yes sir I got bipolar too, such fun such fun, join us lol

having a son and a husband with bipolar, the HELL they have gone through,,,,so you you blame me for my own cancer? How about my MS? How about my Crohn's Disease? It is the same thing...so blame me for my cancer, MS and Crohns as much as you are blaming my son and Husband for bipolar,,,I DARE YOU!!!!!

Hello

Why do most women cut their hair so short as they get older?

crap everyone is mental

I think it's easier for Patty Duke to blame her past behavior on genetics rather than taking responsibility for her behavior. Manic depression is not a "gene". It's a learned behavior that one attaches oneself onto and feeds on a regular basis.