actress patty duke write an insightful and funny and rough hewn book about her career a an actress and her crazy quilt love life and and her manic depressive episode and suicide attempt which almost put her away for good . with this rich material to draw from ( and patty play herself in the final act ) and one would think a crack tv director like gilbert cates could bring it all together on film and but call me anna be a pale shadow of duke autobiography . for those who haven not read the book and the sketchy narrative ( leap forward in time ) isn not absorb and we be never allow to get our bearing with what happen and and the production seem stunt by a low budget . the actor be miscast and and the value of have duke herself finally appear do not pay off the film phony reality be so thick at this point that patty can not bring stability to the scenario . it appear a if the producer be sincere enough ( and consciousness mind ) to anxiously steer the film towards duke ultimate diagnosis and mental freedom and but they leave out many dramatic opportunity in the process .