Wow. I just saw this via Defamer and was absolutely shocked: Anne Bancroft died today at the age of 73. I must have missed or simply forgotten the news that she had cancer. Even though I’m sure he had time to prepare, I’m sure this is a devastating day for her husband, Mel Brooks — that the clown prince of film and theater who certainly is not laughing today.
Bancroft will always be known first and foremost as one of cinema’s all-time great seductresses, the iconic Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. As brilliant as she was in that seminal late-’60s film, let us not forget her performance in The Miracle Worker, which netted her only Oscar (among 5 total nominations), in a role she recreated after winning the Tony in the stage version on Broadway. Performances in The Pumpkin Eater, Agnes of God and ‘Night, Mother were also very notable.
R.I.P. Anne. We’ll miss you.
Update: The greatest obituary ever?
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i’d like to eat HER PUMPKIN!!
(whatever that means)
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