The actress poses in this still for her film The Slender Thread. 1967: Anne Bancroft brings to life Mrs. Robinson Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate, 1967 ...

She had been acting in television as Anne Marno (her real name: Anna Maria Louise Italiano), but it sounded too ethnic for movies. The studio gave her a choice of names; she picked Bancroft ...

Bancroft got to exercise her hauteur in a few later films (The Turning Point, Agnes of God), but her longest and most piquant role was as wife, muse and keeper of Mel Brooks. They made an ...

Anne Bancroft, the woman famed for playing seductress Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, has died at the age of 73. The star, who won the 1962 Best Actress Oscar for her role as the teacher of a young ...

Bancroft was awarded the Tony for creating the role on Broadway of poor-sighted Annie Sullivan, the teacher of the deaf and blind Keller. She repeated her portrayal in the film version.