Patty Duke, Child Star and Oscar Winner, Dies at 69 Patty Duke, an Oscar-winning actress renowned at midcentury as a child star of stage, film and television, who, amid public struggles with bipolar disorder, went on to cultivate a respected career in adulthood as an actress and mental-health advocate, died on Tuesday at a hospital near her home in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. She was 69. The cause was complications of a ruptured intestine that Ms. Duke suffered on Thursday, said her husband, Michael Pearce. Ms. Duke came to wide public...

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