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06-08-2005, 10:44 AM
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5039772.html
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Oscar winner Anne Bancroft, who played the seductive Mrs Robinson in The Graduate, has died.
The 73-year-old lost her battle with cancer on Monday, said a spokesman for her husband Mel Brooks.
Bancroft won her best actress Oscar in 1962 for playing Helen Keller's teacher in The Miracle Worker.
She was awarded a Tony for creating the role on Broadway of Annie Sullivan, the teacher of the deaf and blind Keller.
Yet despite her Academy Award and four other nominations, The Graduate in 1967 overshadowed her other achievements.
Dustin Hoffman delivered the famous line when he realised his girlfriend's mother was coming on to him: "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"
Mike Nichols, who directed The Graduate, said of Bancroft: "Her combination of brains, humour, frankness and sense were unlike any other artist. She was a consummate actress."
Bancroft, who was born Anna Maria Louise Italiano in 1931, was signed by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1952.
But after a series of B movies, she went to Broadway in 1958 and won a Tony opposite Henry Fonda.
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Oscar winner Anne Bancroft, who played the seductive Mrs Robinson in The Graduate, has died.
The 73-year-old lost her battle with cancer on Monday, said a spokesman for her husband Mel Brooks.
Bancroft won her best actress Oscar in 1962 for playing Helen Keller's teacher in The Miracle Worker.
She was awarded a Tony for creating the role on Broadway of Annie Sullivan, the teacher of the deaf and blind Keller.
Yet despite her Academy Award and four other nominations, The Graduate in 1967 overshadowed her other achievements.
Dustin Hoffman delivered the famous line when he realised his girlfriend's mother was coming on to him: "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"
Mike Nichols, who directed The Graduate, said of Bancroft: "Her combination of brains, humour, frankness and sense were unlike any other artist. She was a consummate actress."
Bancroft, who was born Anna Maria Louise Italiano in 1931, was signed by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1952.
But after a series of B movies, she went to Broadway in 1958 and won a Tony opposite Henry Fonda.