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The miracle worker awards12/11/2022 ![]() ![]() "As the years went on, I began to have fun and take pleasure in it. "I didn't appreciate it at first," she said in a 2002 interview with the New York Times. It was a part no one would let Bancroft forget. ![]() Robinson gave California's bland suburban landscape a new, generation-hopping heat. Enshrined in a soundtrack song lyric by Simon & Garfunkel and the famous film poster with a long, silk-stockinged leg in the foreground, the character stretched yet another 1960s sexual boundary. Robinson fused icy detachment to an almost desperate erotic will. Playing opposite a tremulous Dustin Hoffman, as freshly minted college graduate Benjamin Braddock, Bancroft's tautly satiric Mrs. Undeniably, indelibly - and sometimes to her vexation - Bancroft was best known for "The Graduate," the 1967 Mike Nichols film in which she created the role and overnight pop cultural landmark of a sexually determined older woman who seduces a younger man. She played Golda Meir onstage in "Golda" and a creaky ballerina in "The Turning Point" film, both in 1977 cavorted with husband Mel Brooks in his loopy "Silent Movie" (1976) and the ill-judged "To Be or Not To Be" (1983) won acclaim as a distraught, betrayed wife in 1964's "The Pumpkin Eater " wrote, directed and co-starred in 1980's "Fatso " played Brecht's "Mother Courage" on Broadway in 1963 and appeared as Miss Havisham in a 1998 update of "Great Expectations." With her husky voice, withering gaze and a commanding presence that could send high voltage through both dramatic and comic material, Bancroft projected a masterly air. Those two roles suggest the range of Bancroft's talent, as well as the mixed blessings of definitive, career-making parts. Robinson in "The Graduate" and Helen Keller's deeply engaged teacher, Annie Sullivan, in the stage and screen versions of "The Miracle Worker," died of uterine cancer Monday at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) MARK LENNIHAN Show More Show LessĪnne Bancroft, the potent film and stage actress who played the voraciously bored and predatory Mrs. She died of cancer on Monday, June 6, 2005, at Mount Sinai Hospital, in New York, John Barlow, a spokesman for her husband, Mel Brooks, said Tuesday, June 7, 2005. 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 the seductive Mrs. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) NICK UT Show More Show Less 5 of6 ** FILE ** Mel Brooks and his wife Anne Bancroft arrive for 75th anniversary gala for Time magazine at Radio City Music Hall in New York Tin this Mafile photo. 3 of6 4 of6 ** FILE ** Stage and screen actress Anne Bancroft poses in Los Angeles, Calif., in this April 1992 file photo.
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