There's so much more to Hellen Keller than this movie portrays!

Also figure that _The Miracle Worker_ is at least as much about Annie as it is about Helen -- it's actually the story of how commitment to Helen opens Annie up enough to admit affection after all the loss and hardship of her childhood, and about how that enables her to become Teacher; to start the long triumph that would be as much hers as Helen's - and it takes someone like Annie to get to someone like Helen. No one else would have had the guts and the sense of recognition to accomplish it. The keynotes are at the start, when Annie says that God owes her a resurrection; when she blurts out her past to the Kellers, in order to save Helen from a similar fate; and at the very end when she says "I love Helen." Annie gets her resurrection - it's hers as well as Helen's and she's had to work for it, because resurrections don't come easily.

That's very true. And as was said, this movie is just meant to be about how Helen Keller got her start becoming what she was. It's not meant to be a full-fledged biography movie. Plus, the 'Miracle Worker' referenced in the title is Annie Sullivan, not Helen herself. One could argue that Annie, not Helen, was the main character in this case. Of course, there's a lot more to her life, but that's not what the movie was meant to illustrate. There is one thing, however, which I do wish had been included in the play, and it's something the original poster referenced. I wish they had found a way to put Alexander Graham Bell in it, because he was in the picture at the time it's set. In fact, Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan would probably never have met if it weren't for Bell. He was the one who recommended her parents contact Perkins School for the blind and deaf and try to find someone to help Helen. In fact, if not for Bell, we may never have even heard of Helen Keller, let alone Annie Sullivan. He may have been mentioned in the play, though, but I don't remember. I wonder who would have played him if he had been included. My first thought was Edmund Gwenn, but he was already dead by this time.