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A lesser known aspect of Keller’s career is her work as a performer. In the teens and 20's she and her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy toured the country on the lecture circuit and gave vaudeville performances. In 1918 she went to Hollywood and was the star in the movie "Deliverance." There she met movie stars Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. In our Helen Keller Gallery in New York City, we proudly display the honorary Academy Award she received as the inspiration for the documentary "Helen Keller in Her Story." The film won the 1956 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Please help us preserve and create online access to fascinating material surrounding her career as a performer: help digitize the stage plans, transcripts of her on-stage routines, musical scores, photographs and outtakes. At a time when women rarely had a career, Helen had several— she was a writer, a performer, an advocate and a major public figure— and she was deaf and blind. Please donate to this important fundraising campaign.
Like the Helen Keller: The Official Fan Page on Facebook for more inspirational photos, quotes, and letters, and use the #beamiracleworker hashtag on Twitter to raise awareness of our efforts to save the Helen Keller Archives.
Image: Helen Keller holding her honorary Academy Award. She was the inspiration for a documentary film about her life, 1956.
