Helen Ludlam

Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.

"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.

À la suite d'une maladie, Helen Keller, une petite fille de 7 ans, perd l'usage de la parole, de la vue et de l'ouïe. Ses parents font alors appel à Annie Sullivan, une jeune éducatrice, pour ramener l'enfant à une vie normale. Mais celle-ci va devoir face à l'hostilité d'Helen et de ses parents effrayés par ses méthodes.

Le névrosé Alvy Singer rencontre Annie Hall une femme excentrique dans la ville qu'il aime, New York.