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Ricky Retardo
06-07-2005, 05:58 PM
Anne Bancroft dead of cancer at 72.

and my heart also goes out to her long-time husband, Mel Brooks.

rest in peace
Rory L. Aronsky
06-07-2005, 06:14 PM
I always thought she would outlive him. At least she'll be well-remembered.
Furious D
06-07-2005, 08:15 PM
I'm sure Mel's devastated. They were together a long time. She had a great career and will be missed.
Rory L. Aronsky
06-07-2005, 10:08 PM
I'm sure Mel's devastated.

I don't doubt that. After all, she was the one who said that he should do "The Producers" as a stage musical.
Ellen M.
06-08-2005, 05:03 AM
Just read that Anne Bancroft died at 74 of uterine cancer... what a bummer!
Anyone who loved her in "The Graduate", or her many broadway plays will be in mourning.

Ellen :(
Phil Hall
06-08-2005, 06:55 AM
I know she is immortalized as Mrs. Robinson and she won the Oscar for "The Miracle Worker," but my fave Anne Bancroft movie was "The Pumpkin Eater." She won an award at Cannes and an Oscar nomination for it -- she was gorgeous and complex in that strange but compelling movie.
GiGi
06-08-2005, 06:42 PM
What a sad loss. I remember reading a quote from her (talking about how much she loved Mel Brooks) saying when she heard his key in the lock, she knew the fun was going to begin. :)

I loved her in everything she did...from the beotch senator in "GI JAne" to the wig wearing heroine mom in "Home for the Holidays". She was all class and an excellent actress. I didn't even know she was sick.

Rest in peace.
AmaiStina
06-08-2005, 07:04 PM
Just read that Anne Bancroft died at 74 of uterine cancer... what a bummer!
Anyone who loved her in "The Graduate", or her many broadway plays will be in mourning.

Ellen :(


does cancer get the best of many of them?

when it cant be attributed to heart failure due to "old age" ?
Joey Dixie
06-08-2005, 10:40 PM
My Favourite Anne Bancroft Scene....

From the film 'Home for the Holidays'. When she's taking off her clothes reciting a "Dear Abby Letter" to Claudia (her daughter) and the stunning grace she had and somehow embodying every theme that film had in that moment. Thank you Ms Foster for getting that scene right.... Anne.. You will be missed.
GiGi
06-08-2005, 11:54 PM
Well said, Joey...

And I can't believe I left out her role in "Agnes of God". How great she was as a street smart, cursing, closet smoking mother superior. She was so enjoyable and real in that role, and made a gripping story even more memorable.

She was one of those comforting faces you were always glad to see around.