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** Creator/PattyDuke was 15 when the 1962 film was made, playing 7 year old Helen. The studio actually took quite a bit of convincing that she could still believably play that young. Melissa Gilbert was the same age when the 1979 film was shot.

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** Creator/PattyDuke was 15 when the 1962 film was made, playing 7 year old 7-year-old Helen. The studio actually took quite a bit of convincing that she could still believably play that young. Melissa Gilbert was the same age when the 1979 film was shot.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: During rehearsals, Creator/AnneBancroft and Creator/PattyDuke inadvertently bruised each others' ribs during the famous spoon scene, since neither was experienced in stage combat. It got to the point that the actors' wore heavy padding under their costumes to avoid more serious injuries, and the filmed version was shot over several days to avoid wearing them out.

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* EnforcedMethodActing: During rehearsals, Creator/AnneBancroft and Creator/PattyDuke inadvertently bruised each others' ribs during the famous spoon scene, since neither was experienced in stage combat. It got to the point that the actors' actors wore heavy padding under their costumes to avoid more serious injuries, and the filmed version was shot over several days to avoid wearing them out.

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Doesn't sound like an aversion to me. Also Never Work With Children Or Animals is when they cause a Troubled Production, not just being there.


* ExecutiveMeddling: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Creator/UnitedArtists offered writer William Gibson and director Arthur Penn a $2 million budget if they cast a more well-known starlet as Annie Sullivan. They insisted on reprising Creator/AnneBancroft, and UA responded by cutting their budget in half.
* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: The characters in the play include both a child (Helen) and an animal (Belle, the Kellers' dog).

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* ExecutiveMeddling: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Creator/UnitedArtists offered writer William Gibson and director Arthur Penn a $2 million budget if they cast a more well-known starlet as Annie Sullivan. They insisted on reprising Creator/AnneBancroft, and UA responded by cutting their budget in half.
* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: The characters in the play include both a child (Helen) and an animal (Belle, the Kellers' dog).
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* ExecutiveMeddling: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] United Artists offered writer William Gibson and director Arthur Penn a $2 million budget if they cast a more well-known starlet as Annie Sullivan. They insisted on reprising Anne Bancroft, and UA responded by cutting their budget in half.

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* ExecutiveMeddling: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] United Artists Creator/UnitedArtists offered writer William Gibson and director Arthur Penn a $2 million budget if they cast a more well-known starlet as Annie Sullivan. They insisted on reprising Anne Bancroft, Creator/AnneBancroft, and UA responded by cutting their budget in half.
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* AFIS100Years100Cheers: #15
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Annie and Helen's brawls led to Creator/AnneBancroft and Creator/PattyDuke frequently bruising themselves. It got to the point that the actors' wore heavy padding under their costumes to avoid more serious injuries.

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* EnforcedMethodActing: Annie and Helen's brawls led to During rehearsals, Creator/AnneBancroft and Creator/PattyDuke frequently bruising themselves. inadvertently bruised each others' ribs during the famous spoon scene, since neither was experienced in stage combat. It got to the point that the actors' wore heavy padding under their costumes to avoid more serious injuries.injuries, and the filmed version was shot over several days to avoid wearing them out.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Annie and Helen's brawls led to Creator/AnneBancroft and Creator/PattyDuke frequently bruising themselves. It got to the point that the actors' wore heavy padding under their costumes to avoid more serious injuries.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/AudreyHepburn were United Artists' preferred choices to play Annie. Creator/IngridBergman claimed in her autobiography that she'd been offered the part.

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Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/AudreyHepburn were United Artists' preferred choices to play Annie. Creator/IngridBergman claimed in her autobiography that she'd been offered the part.part.
** Creator/FrancoisTruffaut reportedly tried to buy the film rights. When he couldn't, he made ''L'Enfant Sauvage'', a film about a different feral child.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/AudreyHepburn were United Artists' preferred choices to play Annie.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/AudreyHepburn were United Artists' preferred choices to play Annie. Creator/IngridBergman claimed in her autobiography that she'd been offered the part.

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* DawsonCasting: Creator/PattyDuke was 15 when the 1962 film was made, playing 7 year old Helen. The studio actually took quite a bit of convincing that she could still believably play that young. Melissa Gilbert was the same age when the 1979 film was shot.

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* DawsonCasting: DawsonCasting:
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Creator/PattyDuke was 15 when the 1962 film was made, playing 7 year old Helen. The studio actually took quite a bit of convincing that she could still believably play that young. Melissa Gilbert was the same age when the 1979 film was shot.shot.
** Creator/AnneBancroft was 30 when she played Annie Sullivan, when the real Annie was 20 when she first met Helen.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] United Artists offered writer William Gibson and director Arthur Penn a $2 million budget if they cast a more well-known starlet as Annie Sullivan. They insisted on reprising Anne Bancroft, and UA responded by cutting their budget in half.


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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/AudreyHepburn were United Artists' preferred choices to play Annie.
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* DawsonCasting: Creator/PattyDuke was 15 when the 1962 film was made, playing 7 year old Helen. The studio actually took quite a bit of convincing that she could still believably play that young.

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* DawsonCasting: Creator/PattyDuke was 15 when the 1962 film was made, playing 7 year old Helen. The studio actually took quite a bit of convincing that she could still believably play that young. Melissa Gilbert was the same age when the 1979 film was shot.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The 1962 film was shot in Middletown, New Jersey and at the Big Sky Movie Ranch in Simi Valley, CA, doubling for Alabama. The 1979 film was also shot in California, and the 2000 film was shot in Canada.
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* CastingGag: Creator/PattyDuke played Helen to Anne Bancroft's Annie in both the Broadway version and the 1962 film, and then played Annie in the 1979 film, opposite Melissa Gilbert's Helen.
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* StarMakingRole: For Creator/PattyDuke. She got an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (the youngest-ever Oscar winner at the time), and her own sitcom, ''Series/ThePattyDukeShow''.

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* StarMakingRole: For Creator/PattyDuke. She got an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (the (becoming the youngest-ever Oscar winner at the time), and her own sitcom, ''Series/ThePattyDukeShow''.
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* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: The characters in the play include both a child (Helen) and an animal (Belle, the Kellers' dog).
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* StarMakingRole: For Creator/PattyDuke.

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* StarMakingRole: For Creator/PattyDuke. She got an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (the youngest-ever Oscar winner at the time), and her own sitcom, ''Series/ThePattyDukeShow''.
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* StarMakingRole: For Creator/PattyDuke.
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* CastingGag: Patty Duke played Helen to Anne Bancroft's Annie in both the Broadway version and the 1962 film, and then played Annie in the 1979 film, opposite Melissa Gilbert's Helen.
* DawsonCasting: Patty Duke was 15 when the 1962 film was made, playing 7 year old Helen. The studio actually took quite a bit of convincing that she could still believably play that young.

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* CastingGag: Patty Duke Creator/PattyDuke played Helen to Anne Bancroft's Annie in both the Broadway version and the 1962 film, and then played Annie in the 1979 film, opposite Melissa Gilbert's Helen.
* DawsonCasting: Patty Duke Creator/PattyDuke was 15 when the 1962 film was made, playing 7 year old Helen. The studio actually took quite a bit of convincing that she could still believably play that young.
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* DawsonCasting: Patty Duke was 15 when the 1962 film was made, playing 7 year old Helen. The studio actually took quite a bit of convincing that she could still believably play that young.
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* CastingGag: Patty Duke played Helen to Anne Bancroft's Annie in both the Broadway version and the 1962 film, and then played Annie in the 1979 film, opposite Melissa Gilbert's Helen.
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* CastingGag: Patty Duke played Helen to Anne Bancroft's Annie in both the Broadway version and the 1962 film, and then played Annie in the 1979 film, opposite Melissa Gilbert's Helen.
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* AFIS100Years100Cheers: #15
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*CastingGag: Patty Duke played Helen to Anne Bancroft's Annie in both the Broadway version and the 1962 film, and then played Annie in the 1979 film, opposite Melissa Gilbert's Helen.

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