Editing Helen Keller (section)

==Portrayals==
[[File:Anne Sullivan - Helen Keller memorial - Tewksbury, Massachusetts - DSC00072.JPG|thumb|left|''[[Anne Sullivan]]&nbsp;– Helen Keller Memorial''—a bronze sculpture in [[Tewksbury, Massachusetts]]]]

Keller's life has been interpreted many times. She and her companion Anne Sullivan appeared in a silent film, ''[[Deliverance (1919 movie)|Deliverance]]'' (1919), which told her story in a melodramatic, allegorical style.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010061/| access-date=June 15, 2006| title=Deliverance (1919)| website=[[IMDb]]| archive-date=March 27, 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070327044549/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010061/| url-status=live}}</ref> She was also the subject of the [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature|Academy Award]]-winning 1954 documentary ''[[Helen Keller in Her Story]]'', narrated by her friend and noted theatrical actress [[Katharine Cornell]];<ref name="Herrmann 1999, p. 310">{{cite book |last=Herrmann |first=Dorothy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VUp4uh87_eUC |title=Helen Keller: A Life |date=<!-- December 15, -->1999 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-32763-1 |page=[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Helen_Keller/VUp4uh87_eUC&pg=PA310 310] |archive-date=January 20, 2025 |access-date=March 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250120185657/https://books.google.com/books?id=VUp4uh87_eUC |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Documentary Film makers & Film Productions. Watch Documentaries Online |url=https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/51230/helen-keller-in-her-story |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=Culture Unplugged}}</ref> in 2023, the film was added to the [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] for being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>{{cite web |last=Tartaglione |first=Nancy |date=December 13, 2023 |title=National Film Registry: 'Apollo 13', 'Home Alone', 'Terminator 2', '12 Years A Slave' Among 25 Titles Added This Year |url=https://deadline.com/2023/12/national-film-registry-2023-list-apollo-13-home-alone-terminator-2-12-years-a-slave-1235665956/ |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=Deadline |archive-date=December 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231223095312/https://deadline.com/2023/12/national-film-registry-2023-list-apollo-13-home-alone-terminator-2-12-years-a-slave-1235665956/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She was also profiled in ''The Story of Helen Keller'', part of the Famous Americans series produced by [[Hearst Entertainment]]. In the 1950s, when she was considered by many worldwide the greatest woman alive, Hearst reporter [[Adela Rogers St. Johns]] told friends that she did not plan to include Keller in the book she was writing about the most famous women of the United States.<ref name="Herrmann 1999, p. 310"/>

''[[The Miracle Worker]]'' is a [[literature cycle]] of dramatic works ultimately derived from her autobiography, ''[[The Story of My Life (biography)|The Story of My Life]]''. The various dramas each describe the relationship between Keller and Sullivan, depicting how the teacher led her from a state of almost [[Feral children|feral wildness]] into education, activism, and intellectual celebrity. The common title of the cycle echoes [[Mark Twain]]'s description of Sullivan as a "miracle worker".<ref>{{cite news |last=Gibson |first=William |date=October 14, 1979 |title=Looking Back At The Miracle Worker on TV |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/14/archives/looking-back-at-the-miracle-worker-on-tv-keller.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117235454/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/14/archives/looking-back-at-the-miracle-worker-on-tv-keller.html |archive-date=November 17, 2021 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> Its first realization, starring [[Patty McCormack]] as Keller and [[Teresa Wright]] as Sullivan, was the 1957 ''[[Playhouse 90]]'' teleplay of that title by [[William Gibson (playwright)|William Gibson]]. When Keller heard about it, she was enthusiastic, saying: "Never did I dream a drama could be devised out of the story of my life."<ref>{{cite book |last=Herrmann |first=Dorothy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VUp4uh87_eUC |title=Helen Keller: A Life |date=<!-- December 15, -->1999 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-32763-1 |page=[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Helen_Keller/VUp4uh87_eUC&pg=PA324 324] |archive-date=January 20, 2025 |access-date=March 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250120185657/https://books.google.com/books?id=VUp4uh87_eUC |url-status=live }}</ref> Within the cultural context of the early [[civil rights movement]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Eliassen |first=Meredith |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQPHEAAAQBAJ |title=Helen Keller: A Life in American History |date=<!-- September 9, --> 2021 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=979-8-216-09540-8 |page=[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Helen_Keller/ZQPHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 13]}}</ref> Gibson adapted it for a [[The Miracle Worker (play)|Broadway production in 1959]], which was praised by critics as a contemporary classic,<ref name="Herrmann 1999, p. 321">{{cite book |last=Herrmann |first=Dorothy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VUp4uh87_eUC |title=Helen Keller: A Life |date=<!-- December 15, -->1999 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-32763-1 |page=[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Helen_Keller/VUp4uh87_eUC&pg=PA321 321] |archive-date=January 20, 2025 |access-date=March 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250120185657/https://books.google.com/books?id=VUp4uh87_eUC |url-status=live }}</ref> and an Oscar-winning [[The Miracle Worker (1962 film)|feature film in 1962]], starring [[Anne Bancroft]] and [[Patty Duke]].<ref name="Herrmann 1999, p. 321"/> It was remade for television in [[The Miracle Worker (1979 film)|1979]],<ref name="Herrmann 1999, p. 321"/> and then again in [[The Miracle Worker (2000 film)|2000]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Salamon |first=Julie |date=November 10, 2000 |title=Television Review: The Helen Keller Role Passes to the Pepsi Generation The Wonderful World of Disney The Miracle Worker |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/91401410 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |work=The New York Times |id={{ProQuest|91401410}} |via=ProQuest |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Daryl H. |date=November 11, 2000 |title=Disney's 'Miracle Worker' a Bit Too Polished but Still Powerful |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-nov-11-ca-50089-story.html |access-date=December 24, 2024 |work=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=November 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241113162639/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-nov-11-ca-50089-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Helen keller patty duke.jpg|thumb|Helen Keller with [[Patty Duke]], who portrayed Keller in both the play and film ''[[The Miracle Worker]]'' (1962). In a [[The Miracle Worker (1979 film)|1979 remake]], Patty Duke played [[Anne Sullivan]].]]

An anime movie called ''The Story of Helen Keller: Angel of Love and Light'' was made in 1981.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Clements |first1=Jonathan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E03KBgAAQBAJ |title=The Anime Encyclopedia: A Century of Japanese Animation |last2=McCarthy |first2=Helen |date=<!-- February 9 --> 2015 |publisher=Stone Bridge Press |isbn=978-1-61172-909-2 |edition=3rd revised |page=[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Anime_Encyclopedia_3rd_Revised_Editi/E03KBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT847 847] |language=en |archive-date=April 26, 2025 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250426050500/https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Anime_Encyclopedia_3rd_Revised_Editi/E03KBgAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1984, Keller's life story was made into a TV movie called ''[[The Miracle Continues]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Schuchman |first=John S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fThBPcCI3h8C |title=Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=1988 |isbn=978-0-252-06850-8 |page=[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hollywood_Speaks/fThBPcCI3h8C&pg=PA147 147] |archive-date=December 28, 2024 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241228211345/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hollywood_Speaks/fThBPcCI3h8C |url-status=live }} See also {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-YCAAAAMBAJ |title=New York Magazine |date=April 23, 1984 |publisher=New York Media<!-- , LLC --> |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=C-YCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA147 147] |access-date=December 24, 2024 }} {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f-UCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA134 |title=New York Magazine |date=April 30, 1984 |publisher=New York Media |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=f-UCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA134 134] }}</ref> This film, a semi-sequel to ''The Miracle Worker'', recounts her college years and her early adult life. None of the early movies hint at the social activism that would become the hallmark of Keller's later life, although a [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] version produced in 2000 states in the credits that she became an activist for [[social equality]]. The [[Bollywood]] movie ''[[Black (2005 film)|Black]]'' (2005) was largely based on Keller's story from her childhood to her graduation.<ref>{{cite news| last1=Güler| first1=Emrah| title=Helen Keller story inspires Turkish film|url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/helen-keller-story-inspires-turkish-film.aspx?pageID=238&nID=56916&NewsCatID=381| access-date=April 26, 2015| work=[[Hürriyet Daily News]]| date=October 28, 2013| archive-date=March 18, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318132455/http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/helen-keller-story-inspires-turkish-film.aspx?pageID=238&nID=56916&NewsCatID=381| url-status=live}}</ref>

A documentary called ''Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy'' was produced by the Swedenborg Foundation in 2005. The film focuses on the role played by [[Emanuel Swedenborg]]'s spiritual theology in her life and how it inspired Keller's triumph over her triple disabilities of blindness, deafness, and a severe speech impediment.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life & Legacy |journal=The Video Librarian |date=May 1, 2006 |volume=21 |issue=3 |page=86}}</ref> On March 6, 2008, the [[New England Historic Genealogical Society]] announced that a staff member had discovered a rare 1888 photograph showing Helen and Anne, which, although previously published, had escaped widespread attention.<ref name="independent picture">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/picture-of-helen-keller-as-a-child-revealed-after-120-years-792781.html| title=Picture of Helen Keller as a child revealed after 120 years| work=[[The Independent]]| location=London| date=March 7, 2008| access-date=May 4, 2010| archive-date=February 21, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221214910/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/picture-of-helen-keller-as-a-child-revealed-after-120-years-792781.html| url-status=live}}</ref> Depicting Helen holding one of her many dolls, it is believed to be the earliest surviving photograph of Anne Sullivan Macy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanancestors.org/uploadedFiles/American_Ancestors/Content/Marketing/PDF_Archive/hkeller_release_feb08v2.pdf |title=Newly Discovered Photograph Features Never Before Seen Image Of Young Helen Keller|publisher= [[New England Genealogical Society]]|access-date=March 6, 2008}} {{dead link|date=April 2023}}</ref> Video footage showing Keller speaking also exists.<ref>{{cite web |title=Helen Keller Speaks Out |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ch_H8pt9M8 |website=YouTube |date=April 11, 2011 |access-date=April 15, 2023 |archive-date=April 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413083124/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ch_H8pt9M8 |url-status=live }}</ref>

A biography of Keller was written by the German Jewish author [[H. J. Kaeser]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Phillips |first=Zlata Fuss |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGvDBQ64WPgC |title=German Children's and Youth Literature in Exile 1933−1950: Biographies and Bibliographies |date=<!-- November 2 -->2011 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-095285-8 |page=[https://www.google.com/books/edition/German_Children_s_and_Youth_Literature_i/tGvDBQ64WPgC&pg=PA118 118]}}</ref> A {{convert|10|by|7|ft|adj=on}} painting titled ''The Advocate: Tribute to Helen Keller'' was created by three artists from [[Kerala]], India, as a tribute to Keller. The painting, which depicts the major events of Keller's life and is one of the biggest paintings done based on her life, was created in association with a non-profit organization Art d'Hope Foundation, artists groups Palette People, and XakBoX Design & Art Studio.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/2016/jul/12/a-tribute-to-helen-keller-879851.html |title=A tribute to Helen Keller |work=[[The New Indian Express]] |date=July 12, 2016 |access-date=October 17, 2016 |archive-date=October 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019003737/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/2016/jul/12/A-tribute-to-Helen-Keller-879851.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This painting was created for a fundraising event to help blind students in India,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artdhope.org/tribute-helen-keller-art-raise-funds-blind-students/ |title='Tribute to Helen Keller': Art for raising funds for blind students |date=July 25, 2016 |website=www.artdhope.org |access-date=October 17, 2016 |archive-date=October 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018233646/http://www.artdhope.org/tribute-helen-keller-art-raise-funds-blind-students/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and was inaugurated by M. G. Rajamanikyam, IAS (District Collector Ernakulam) on Helen Keller day (June 27, 2016).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/tribute-to-helen-keller/article8798547.ece |title=Tribute to Helen Keller |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=October 17, 2016 |archive-date=January 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109211533/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/Tribute-to-Helen-Keller/article14465603.ece |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2020, the documentary essay ''Her Socialist Smile'' by [[John Gianvito]] evolves around Keller's first public talk in 1913 before a general audience, when she started speaking out on behalf of [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]] causes.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Her Socialist Smile|url=https://www.filmlinc.org/films/her-socialist-smile/|access-date=November 1, 2020|website=Film at Lincoln Center|language=en|archive-date=July 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702151620/https://www.filmlinc.org/films/her-socialist-smile/|url-status=live}}</ref>