Mel Brooks & Anne Bancroft
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Anne Bancroft
born: 17-09-1931
birth place: New York, USA
died: 06-06-2005
- Although Bancroft played Dustin Hoffman’s much older lover in The Graduate, she is only six years older than him.
- She has appeared onscreen three times with her husband Mel Brooks: in Silent Movie (1976), To Be or Not to Be (1983) and an episode of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.
- Bancroft was the original choice to play Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1981) but she backed out at the eleventh hour. The part went to Faye Dunaway.
- After meeting Mel Brooks she told her therapist to conclude the therapy as fast as possible because she had met the man she was going to marry.
- Bancroft died of uterine cancer aged 73 at Mount Sinai Hospital, NYC. As she was a very private person, her friends were unaware of her failing health.
- 20th Century Fox thought her birth name of Italiano was “too ethnic” so she chose Bancroft because it sounded dignified.
- Bancroft is also one of only eight actors to have won a Tony and an Oscar for the same role on screen and on stage in The Miracle Worker.
- Although she was raised a Catholic she converted to Judaism after meeting Mel Brooks.
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born: 17-09-1931
birth place: New York, USA
died: 06-06-2005
- Although Bancroft played Dustin Hoffman’s much older lover in The Graduate, she is only six years older than him.
- She has appeared onscreen three times with her husband Mel Brooks: in Silent Movie (1976), To Be or Not to Be (1983) and an episode of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.
- Bancroft was the original choice to play Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1981) but she backed out at the eleventh hour. The part went to Faye Dunaway.
- After meeting Mel Brooks she told her therapist to conclude the therapy as fast as possible because she had met the man she was going to marry.
- Bancroft died of uterine cancer aged 73 at Mount Sinai Hospital, NYC. As she was a very private person, her friends were unaware of her failing health.
- 20th Century Fox thought her birth name of Italiano was “too ethnic” so she chose Bancroft because it sounded dignified.
- Bancroft is also one of only eight actors to have won a Tony and an Oscar for the same role on screen and on stage in The Miracle Worker.
- Although she was raised a Catholic she converted to Judaism after meeting Mel Brooks.
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