That is sad. I didn't realise her and Mel Brooks were still married.
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1645640,00.html June 08,
> 2005
> Here's to you, Ms Bancroft, screen and stage superstar
> From James Bone in New York
I would have thought, she was past the age for uterine cancer to be honest.
Just goes to show eh.
Anyway, thanks for that info.
> THE show-business world united in a final “Here’s to you, Mrs Robinson”
> yesterday on the death of Anne Bancroft, who was immortalised on screen as
> the middle-aged seductress in The Graduate.
> The Oscar-winning actress succumbed to uterine cancer on Monday night at
> the age of 73 at New York’s Mount Sinai hospital, according to a spokesman
> for her husband, the comedian and director Mel Brooks.
> Bancroft won her Oscar for her performance as Annie Sullivan, the woman
> who taught the deaf, dumb and blind Helen Keller, in the 1962 film The
> Miracle Worker.
> It was a role that she had originated on stage in the play by William
> Gibson in 1959, winning her second successive Tony Award.
> But it was for her iconic performance as Mrs Robinson, who shatters
> middle-class American values by seducing her daughter’s boyfriend in the
> 1967 film The Graduate, that Bancroft will be remembered. Mrs Robinson’s
> sexual adventure with Dustin Hoffman’s Benjamin Braddock jolted America
> just as the women’s movement was gaining momentum. Hoffman, in the title
> role, delivered the famous line when he realised his girlfriend’s mother
> was coming on to him in a hotel room: “Mrs Robinson, you’re trying to
> seduce me . . . Aren’t you?” The part was made even more famous by the
> success of Simon and Garfunkel’s song, And here’s to you, Mrs Robinson,
> part of the film score.
> In 2003 she admitted that nearly everyone was discouraged from taking the
> role “because it was all about sex with a younger man”. She viewed the
> character as having unfulfilled dreams, relegated to a conventional life
> with a conventional husband. She added: “Film critics said I gave a voice
> to the fear we all have: that we’ll reach a certain point in our lives,
> look around and realise that all the things we said we’d do and become
> will never come to be — and that we’re ordinary.”
> She spoke of her sadness that none of her other works was appreciated as
> much: “I’m 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.”
> Born Anna Maria Louise Italiano in the Bronx in New York, she started
> acting on television as Anne Marno. Offered a choice of screen names by
> her Hollywood studio, she picked Bancroft “because it sounded dignified”.
> After a string of B-movies, she escaped to Broadway in 1958 and won her
> first Tony opposite Henry Fonda in Two for the Seesaw.
> Other Oscar nominations came for The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Graduate
> (1967), The Turning Point (1977) and Agnes of God (1985).
> Mel Brooks, who co-starred with Bancroft in To Be Or Not To Be, met her on
> the set of a television talk show. He found out which restaurant she aimed
> to dine in, walked in and “accidentally” met her again.
> The couple married on August 5, 1964, and had one son Max, a screenwriter,
> in 1972.
> A LIFE IN THE LIMELIGHT
> Born Anna Italiano in September 1931 in the Bronx to Italian immigrant
> parents
> Signed by 20th Century Fox in 1952 after acting in television
> Won her first Tony award in 1958 opposite Henry Fonda in Two for the
> Seesaw
> Won Best Actress Oscar in 1962 for The Miracle Worker
> Married Mel Brooks in 1964
> Nominated for an Oscar for The Graduate in 1967
> Returned to Broadway in 2002 in Occupant
