Anne Bancroft Articles

Anne Bancroft, Mel Brooks in To Be or Not to Be (top); Mel Brooks at the 1969 Oscar ceremony (bottom) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a tribute to Mel Brooks on Friday, July 24, at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Hosted by film historian Leonard Maltin, the evening will feature numerous film clips and stories [...]

James Robert Parish, author of countless film books (The RKO Gals, Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops), answers a few questions on the subject of his upcoming biography, It's Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks (Wiley, 2007). Many comedians are supposed to be major bores when they're not "on." Does Mel Brooks fit into that mold? Over the [...]

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 [...]