Thursday, March 31, 2016

Duke Patty Duke Revisited

Dear Folks, 

Satire1 laments the passing of one of the great child/youth stars of the 1960's, Anna Marie Duke known to the world as Patty Duke. We celebrated her groundbreaking portrayal of Helen Keller as a girl in 2014 which we share with you again here.

The Senate appointed special task force to determine the relationship between John Wayne and Anna Marie "Patty" Duke will deliver its findings to the full Senate on the morning of Friday, April 25th. Though the Senate Intelligence Committee meetings dealing with the controversy have been closed to the public, Satire1, through a discrete and corrupt source, has bought iPhone photographs of the chairwoman's secretary's notes. Since shorthand is not a set language or code, some guessing is involved in translating any given stenographer's hand.

--A twelve year search through internet data bases, police, newspaper and magazine files, movie memorabilia stores and family members of the stars in question by the Federal Bureau of Investigation has yet to produce one photograph of the actors John "The Duke" Wayne and "Patty" Duke together.

-- Both "Dukes" were at the height of their careers in 1963 when Patty received her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker.

--The FBI searches combined with the Central Intelligence Agency's oversea searches and the National Security Agency's searches of the rest of our solar system have yet to produce one single photograph of John Wayne and Anne Bancroft together.

--With the exception of Mel "Muscles" Brooks, the widower of Ms. Bancroft, no one who knew Patty and Anne and John appears to still be alive. Everyone suspected of knowing all three either committed questionable suicide or died in a mudslide in the midst of California's record drought.

--Rumors that John Wayne took over the role of Anne Sullivan in the filming of The Miracle Worker in New Jersey in 1962 were widely ignored in the press and by Hollywood Gossip columnists due to pressure from the Academy which saw the role as belonging exclusively to actresses. Van Johnson's stepping in for Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in all the song sequences a decade earlier was still scandalizing Europe and the Middle East where American diplomats are still asked just who is a diamond's best friend.

--Patty's identical "cousin" Cathy in The Patty Duke Show was supposed to be a trick of wigs, stand ins and double exposure filming and was credited to Patty Duke was in fact an Irish Republican Army hit woman wanted by both Britain's MI5 and Interpol for international murder and terrorism. Her close resemblance to the actress was further exploited by plastic surgery and evil make up artistry. Cathy aka Katherine "Deadeye" Henehan adjusted her accent just enough to pass as an American teenager trying to do the Scottish brogue the script called for. 

--John Wayne, who joined the IRA cause during his filming of The Quiet Man some years earlier was thought to have sired both the Irish and American "cousins" who were actually half sisters as part of his and John Ford's conspiracy to populate a future Celtic takeover of the English speaking world. 

--Just seven months after Patty Duke and John Wayne/Anne Bancroft won Best Supporting and Best Actress at the Oscars, John Kennedy, the only American president of Irish descent up until that time, who had refused to support the Celtic Generational Conspiracy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, a known fan of the Patty Duke Show.

Don Arrup
Satire1

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