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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Graduate" Great Anne Bancroft Dies <!-- END HEADLINE -->
<!-- BEGIN STORY BODY -->By Joal Ryan 23 minutes ago
Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson--one last time.
Anne Bancroft, the Oscar-winning actress who handled the drama of The Miracle Worker, the satire of The Graduate and the shtick of husband Mel Brooks' comedy with equal aplomb, died Monday of cancer at a New York hospital. She was 73.
If not the biggest of stars, Bancroft was one of Hollywood's steadiest-working and most acclaimed actresses of her generation. In her nearly 55-year stage and screen career, she won one Oscar, two Emmys and two Tonys.
Bancroft owed to the Oscar and half of her Tonys to one role: Annie Sullivan. Bancroft played the schoolmarm in both the 1960 Broadway and 1962 film versions of The Miracle Worker.
But she became a full-fledged pop-culture icon as Mrs. Robinson, the boozy seductress of Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, a part immortalized in song by the Simon and Garfunkel classic.
Bancroft was almost as well-known for her long marriage to Brooks as for her own career. The two wed in 1964, and had one son, Max, a former writer for Saturday Night Live.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Graduate" Great Anne Bancroft Dies <!-- END HEADLINE --><!-- BEGIN STORY BODY -->By Joal Ryan 23 minutes ago
Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson--one last time.
Anne Bancroft, the Oscar-winning actress who handled the drama of The Miracle Worker, the satire of The Graduate and the shtick of husband Mel Brooks' comedy with equal aplomb, died Monday of cancer at a New York hospital. She was 73.
If not the biggest of stars, Bancroft was one of Hollywood's steadiest-working and most acclaimed actresses of her generation. In her nearly 55-year stage and screen career, she won one Oscar, two Emmys and two Tonys.
Bancroft owed to the Oscar and half of her Tonys to one role: Annie Sullivan. Bancroft played the schoolmarm in both the 1960 Broadway and 1962 film versions of The Miracle Worker.
But she became a full-fledged pop-culture icon as Mrs. Robinson, the boozy seductress of Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, a part immortalized in song by the Simon and Garfunkel classic.
Bancroft was almost as well-known for her long marriage to Brooks as for her own career. The two wed in 1964, and had one son, Max, a former writer for Saturday Night Live.
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