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Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Cannes Film Festival Award. She is one of 24 thespians to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.
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entertainment · American actress (1931–2005) · film actor · voice actor · screenwriter · film director · character actor · stage actor · television actor · actor · also Anne Bancroft, Anna Maria Louise Italiano, Bancroft
Born 17 September 1931 · Died 6 June 2005 · Q183532
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2026· 3 entries
Public attention spiked: 28,684 Wikipedia readers in one day, 10.1× the usual 2,834, with 2 article edits.
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Yahoo: Mel Brooks wed Anne Bancroft in 1964 and they remained together until her death in 2005
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2024· 2 entries
Artnet news: Anne Bancroft Behind the Scenes on the Set of ‘The Graduate’
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Yahoo: More Than 'Mrs. Robinson' — Take a Look at These Photos of Anne Bancroft Over the Years
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2022· 1 entry
Page Six: Jack Black: Anne Bancroft ‘helped me at the right moment’
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2021· 1 entry
Vulture: How I Fell for Anne Bancroft
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2018· 2 entries
Gold Derby: Anne Bancroft movies: 12 greatest films, ranked worst to best, include ‘The Graduate,’ ‘The Miracle Worker’
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Observer: Anne Bancroft
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2005· 5 entries
Died 2005-06-06.
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Shortly before her death, Bancroft became a grandmother when her daughter-in-law Michelle had a boy, Henry Michael Brooks
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“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.”
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“I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?”
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At the age of 73, as a result of uterine cancer
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Deep in My Heart (1999).
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for 84 Charing Cross Road (1988).
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Played Harvey Fierstein's mother in the film version of his play Torch Song Trilogy
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for The Turning Point (1977).
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1967· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for The Graduate (1967).
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She also worked with Bancroft in The Graduate (1967) and The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975).
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1964· 3 entries
At the Manhattan Marriage Bureau near New York City Hall, and remained married until her death in 2005
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for The Pumpkin Eater (1964).
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Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for The Pumpkin Eater (1964).
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for The Miracle Worker (1963).
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for The Miracle Worker (1962).
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1961· 3 entries
In the same interview, he said of their first meeting in 1961, "From that day, until her death on June 6, 2005, we were glued together." Bancroft's son, Max, said in a 2020 interview that she was "a secret, closet scientist".
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Bancroft met Mel Brooks at a rehearsal for Perry Como's variety show Kraft Music Hall
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"From that day, until her death on June 6, 2005, we were glued together
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1960· 4 entries
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (1960).
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Again with playwright Gibson and director Penn, when she played Annie Sullivan, the young woman who teaches the child Helen Keller to communicate in The Miracle Worker
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Had recently appeared in several TV series
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1958· 4 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1958).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (1958).
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Made her Broadway debut with the play Two for the Seesaw, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
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Made her Broadway debut as lovelorn, Bronx-accented Gittel Mosca opposite Henry Fonda (as the married man Gittel loves) in William Gibson's two-character play Two for the Seesaw, directed by Arthur Penn
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1957· 1 entry
Bancroft was directed by Jacques Tourneur in a David Goodis adaptation, Nightfall
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1953· 1 entry
Separated in November 1955, and divorced on February 13, 1957
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1952· 1 entry
And appeared in 14 other films over the following five years
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1950· 1 entry
Studied at American Academy of Dramatic Arts (1950).
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1931· 2 entries
Born 1931-09-17.
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In the Bronx, New York, the middle of three daughters of Mildred Carmela (née Di Napoli; 1907–2010), a telephone operator, and Michael Gregory Italiano (1905–2001), a dress pattern maker
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