Anne bancroft biography wikipedia
Anne bancroft biography wikipedia
Anne Bancroft.
Bancroft was bemused by her fame as Mrs Robinson |
Yet, ask anyone their memory of Anne Bancroft and it's the image of the bored housewife in The Graduate listening to Dustin Hoffman asking the question "Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me, aren't you?"
It was the role which, for a short time at least, gave an impetus to "mature female" roles.
Anne Bancroft felt it was an albatross around her neck. 30 years later, she was still addressed as "Mrs Robinson" by passers-by on the street.
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"I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet," she said.
The woman who was to become one of America's most popular character actresses learned her craft in 1950s' B-movies and in live television shows.
She was born Anna Maria Louise Italiano in New York's Bronx in 1931, and began acting as Anne Ma