LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Actress Anne Bancroft, who seduced Dustin ... deaf Helen Keller out of her isolation, and won an Academy Award for best actress for the same role two years later.

Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano ... her a Tony Award for best supporting actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Annie Sullivan in The Miracle ...

Academy Awards went to Best Actress Anne Bancroft and Best Supporting Actress Patty Duke for their moving portrayals of Annie Sullivan and her remarkable blind and deaf pupil, Helen Keller.