Anne Bancroft, 73
Posted: Tuesday, June 7th, 2005 4:15 pm
Anne Bancroft, enshrined in film history as the iconic Mrs. Robinson, the seductress who devours her daughter’s nerdy boyfriend-to-be (Dustin Hoffman) in the 1967 film “The Graduate,” and also remembered for her sensitive portrayal on both stage and screen of Annie Sullivan, the teacher who leads the blind and deaf Helen Keller out of darkness into light in “The Miracle Worker,” died Monday at Mount Sinai Medical Center. She was 73.
The cause was uterine cancer, said John Barlow, a spokesman for the family. …
During more than 50 years of acting in films, theater and television she played everything from Brecht’s “Mother Courage” to the mother superior of a convent, and from an aging ballerina to the Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel, and repeatedly won praise for her work. …
Anna Maria Louisa Italiano was born Sept. 17, 1931, in the Bronx to Italian immigrant parents. …
During her first stay in Hollywood she married Martin A. May, a building contractor, in 1954. They were divorced in 1957. In 1964 she married Mel Brooks, who survives her along with their son, Maximilian, and grandson. … Read full obituary
