The Miracle Continues

Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues is a 1984 semisequel to the 1979 telefilm version of The Miracle Worker. It is a drama based on the life of Helen Keller.

Summary

The film covers the period of Keller's life from her college years at Radcliffe through her writing of The Story of My Life assisted by John Macy, who falls in love with and marries Keller's teacher and companion, Anne Sullivan. Helen wants to live a full life but is hampered by her actual disabilities and by people's attitudes and beliefs about the disabled at that time. Sullivan is hampered by psychological problems from her own past, as well as by her symbiotic, almost codependent bond with Helen, which affects Macy to the extent that he eventually self-destructs into alcoholism. Keller and Sullivan raise money by going on the road with a lecture tour where they describe her education.

Cast

Blythe Danner as Anne Sullivan
Mare Winningham as Helen Keller
Perry King as John Macy
Vera Miles as Kate Keller
Jack Warden as Mark Twain
Peter Cushing as Professor Charles Copeland
Alexander Knox as Mr. Gilman

External links

Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues at the Internet Movie Database

Helen Keller

Life history	Ivy Green Tuscumbia, Alabama Laura Bridgman Alexander Graham Bell Charles W. Adams

Schools attended	Perkins School for the Blind Anne Sullivan Wright-Humason School for the Deaf Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing The Cambridge School of Weston Radcliffe College

Related foundations	Helen Keller International American Civil Liberties Union Helen Keller Services for the Blind

Related works	"The Frost King" The Story of My Life The World I Live In My Religion Light in My Darkness Deliverance Helen Keller in Her Story The Miracle Worker The Miracle Continues Black

Related topics	Helen Keller Day

Helen Keller's The Story of My Life (1903)

Characters	Anne Sullivan Helen Keller

Film	The Miracle Worker (1962) The Miracle Worker (1979) The Miracle Worker (2000) Black (2005)

Stage	The Miracle Worker (1959 play)

Related	The Miracle Continues

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