Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft, the acclaimed Oscar-, Emmy-, and Tony-winning actress who appeared in dozens of plays, movies, and television productions, and the longtime wife of writer-director Mel Brooks has died. Bancroft had been suffering from uterine cancer and died on July 6 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She was 73.
During the actress’ five-decade-plus career, she starred in numerous prestige productions onstage, including her Tony-winning turns in Two for the Seesaw and, as Anne Sullivan, in The Miracle Worker.
Among her most important films are Arthur Penn’s 1962 adaptation of The Miracle Worker — for which Bancroft won a best actress Oscar — and the epoch-making The Graduate (1967), in which she plays a hypocritical, middle-aged married woman who seduces Dustin Hoffman’s innocent and geeky youth.
Bancroft’s four additional Academy Award nominations were for her roles in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), as Peter Finch’s despondent housewife; the aforementioned The Graduate; The Turning Point (1977), as an ageing ballerina; and Agnes of God (1985), as a well-meaning, if cunning, Mother Superior.
On television, Bancroft made her mark with Emmy-winning roles in the variety special Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man and the TV movie Deep in My Heart.
Lauren Bacall and the 1997 Oscars
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