Anne Bancroft passed away today at the age of 73.
Here's to you Mrs. Robinson......
...and Annie Sullivan
Chris
Here's to you Mrs. Robinson......
...and Annie Sullivan
Chris
R.I.P. Anne Bancroft.
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That's very young. What a shame - I was looking forward to seeing her become an even grander grande dame...
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That is sad. She was a great Mrs. Robinson.
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Sad. She was a classy lady and a great actress.
Yes ~ here's to you Mrs. Robinson
Sue
Yes ~ here's to you Mrs. Robinson
Sue
She was only 73? I thought she was much older.
that was "according to her publicist" so i guess that is with a grain of salt.
At the OP, there were no reports available, but now its later and I read a couple and interesting how facts differ. the IMDB report never mentions Mel Brooks by name and implied that she was married to Alan Jackson.
IMDB report:
Actress Anne Bancroft, who won an Oscar for The Miracle Worker and a place in pop culture history as the seductive Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, died Monday of cancer; she was 73. The wife of comedian Mel Brooks, Bancroft died in New York at Mt. Sinai Hospital. One of the most popular actresses of the '60s, Bancroft's career started off dubiously in the '50s with a number of B movies for 20th Century Fox such as Gorilla at Large and Demetrius and the Gladiators. The studio also renamed the young actress, who was born Anna Maria Louise Italiano and originally went by Anne Marno; given a list of names, she chose the dignified Bancroft. However, fulfilling roles for the versatile TV and movie actress didn't follow, and Bancroft left both big and small screens for Broadway in the late 50s, winning two Tonys, for Two for the Seesaw and The Miracle Worker. When Hollywood came calling to adapt both films, Bancroft lost the role in the former to Shirley MacLaine. However, when studio heads wanted a more glamorous actress for the role of Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker, director Arthur Penn put his foot down and refused to budge. Then faced with a minimal budget, Penn created a gripping black-and-white film which won Oscars in 1962 for both Bancroft and co-star Patty Duke (as Helen Keller).
That role was followed by another Oscar-nominated performance in The Pumpkin Eater and the acclaimed The Slender Thread and 7 Women. In 1967, however, Bancroft did a total 180 from her saintly persona as Annie Sullivan and donned leopard-skin lingerie for her role as the wily Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, which nabbed her another Oscar nomination and permanent enshrinement in film history. By then, she had seduced not just Dustin Hoffman but the filmgoing public as well, and for the rest of her career she was pretty much able to call her own shots. She worked almost non-stop through the '70s and '80s in both comedic and dramatic films, including The Turning Point (another Oscar nomination), The Elephant Man, To Be or Not To Be (directed by her husband), Agnes of God (her last Oscar nomination), 84 Charing Cross Road, and Torch Song Trilogy. In the '90s Bancroft took a number of character roles, most notably as a mysterious old con woman in Malice, a menacing senator in G.I. Jane, a comedic matriarch in Home For the Holidays, an elegant trainer of a young assassin in Point of No Return, and an updated Mrs. Havisham in Great Expectations; she most recently appeared in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, for which she received an Emmy nomination. Bancroft is survived by her husband, whom she married in 1964, and their son, Max. --Prepared by IMDb staff
The AP report
NEW YORK (AP) - Anne Bancroft, who won the 1962 best actress Oscar as the teacher of a young Helen Keller in ``The Miracle Worker'' but achieved greater fame as Mrs. Robinson, the seducer of her daughter's boyfriend in the 1967 movie ``The Graduate,'' has died, a spokesman for her husband, producer Mel Brooks, said Tuesday. She was 73.
She died of cancer on Monday at Mount Sinai Hospital, spokesman John Barlow said.
Bancroft was awarded the Tony for creating the role on Broadway of poor-sighted Annie Sullivan, the teacher of Keller, who was born deaf and blind. She repeated her portrayal in the film version. Despite her Academy Award and four other nominations, ``The Graduate'' overshadowed her other achievements.
Dustin Hoffman delivered the famous line when he realized his girlfriend's mother was coming on to him in a hotel room: ``Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. ... Aren't you?''
Bancroft complained to a 2003 interviewer: ``I am quite surprised that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about `The Miracle Worker.' We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world.... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.''
Her beginnings in Hollywood were unimpressive. She was signed by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1952 and given the glamour treatment. She had been acting in television as Anne Marno (her real name: Anna Maria Louise Italiano), but it sounded too ethnic for movies. The studio gave her a choice of names; she picked Bancroft ``because it sounded dignified.''
After a series of B pictures, she escaped to Broadway in 1958 and won her first Tony opposite Henry Fonda in ``Two for the Seesaw.'' The stage and movie versions of ``The Miracle Worker'' followed. Her other Academy nominations: ``The Pumpkin Eater'' (1964); ``The Graduate'' (1967); ``The Turning Point'' (1977); ``Agnes of God'' (1985).
that was "according to her publicist" so i guess that is with a grain of salt.
At the OP, there were no reports available, but now its later and I read a couple and interesting how facts differ. the IMDB report never mentions Mel Brooks by name and implied that she was married to Alan Jackson.
IMDB report:
Actress Anne Bancroft, who won an Oscar for The Miracle Worker and a place in pop culture history as the seductive Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, died Monday of cancer; she was 73. The wife of comedian Mel Brooks, Bancroft died in New York at Mt. Sinai Hospital. One of the most popular actresses of the '60s, Bancroft's career started off dubiously in the '50s with a number of B movies for 20th Century Fox such as Gorilla at Large and Demetrius and the Gladiators. The studio also renamed the young actress, who was born Anna Maria Louise Italiano and originally went by Anne Marno; given a list of names, she chose the dignified Bancroft. However, fulfilling roles for the versatile TV and movie actress didn't follow, and Bancroft left both big and small screens for Broadway in the late 50s, winning two Tonys, for Two for the Seesaw and The Miracle Worker. When Hollywood came calling to adapt both films, Bancroft lost the role in the former to Shirley MacLaine. However, when studio heads wanted a more glamorous actress for the role of Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker, director Arthur Penn put his foot down and refused to budge. Then faced with a minimal budget, Penn created a gripping black-and-white film which won Oscars in 1962 for both Bancroft and co-star Patty Duke (as Helen Keller).
That role was followed by another Oscar-nominated performance in The Pumpkin Eater and the acclaimed The Slender Thread and 7 Women. In 1967, however, Bancroft did a total 180 from her saintly persona as Annie Sullivan and donned leopard-skin lingerie for her role as the wily Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, which nabbed her another Oscar nomination and permanent enshrinement in film history. By then, she had seduced not just Dustin Hoffman but the filmgoing public as well, and for the rest of her career she was pretty much able to call her own shots. She worked almost non-stop through the '70s and '80s in both comedic and dramatic films, including The Turning Point (another Oscar nomination), The Elephant Man, To Be or Not To Be (directed by her husband), Agnes of God (her last Oscar nomination), 84 Charing Cross Road, and Torch Song Trilogy. In the '90s Bancroft took a number of character roles, most notably as a mysterious old con woman in Malice, a menacing senator in G.I. Jane, a comedic matriarch in Home For the Holidays, an elegant trainer of a young assassin in Point of No Return, and an updated Mrs. Havisham in Great Expectations; she most recently appeared in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, for which she received an Emmy nomination. Bancroft is survived by her husband, whom she married in 1964, and their son, Max. --Prepared by IMDb staff
The AP report
NEW YORK (AP) - Anne Bancroft, who won the 1962 best actress Oscar as the teacher of a young Helen Keller in ``The Miracle Worker'' but achieved greater fame as Mrs. Robinson, the seducer of her daughter's boyfriend in the 1967 movie ``The Graduate,'' has died, a spokesman for her husband, producer Mel Brooks, said Tuesday. She was 73.
She died of cancer on Monday at Mount Sinai Hospital, spokesman John Barlow said.
Bancroft was awarded the Tony for creating the role on Broadway of poor-sighted Annie Sullivan, the teacher of Keller, who was born deaf and blind. She repeated her portrayal in the film version. Despite her Academy Award and four other nominations, ``The Graduate'' overshadowed her other achievements.
Dustin Hoffman delivered the famous line when he realized his girlfriend's mother was coming on to him in a hotel room: ``Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. ... Aren't you?''
Bancroft complained to a 2003 interviewer: ``I am quite surprised that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about `The Miracle Worker.' We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world.... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.''
Her beginnings in Hollywood were unimpressive. She was signed by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1952 and given the glamour treatment. She had been acting in television as Anne Marno (her real name: Anna Maria Louise Italiano), but it sounded too ethnic for movies. The studio gave her a choice of names; she picked Bancroft ``because it sounded dignified.''
After a series of B pictures, she escaped to Broadway in 1958 and won her first Tony opposite Henry Fonda in ``Two for the Seesaw.'' The stage and movie versions of ``The Miracle Worker'' followed. Her other Academy nominations: ``The Pumpkin Eater'' (1964); ``The Graduate'' (1967); ``The Turning Point'' (1977); ``Agnes of God'' (1985).