RIP, Mrs. Robinson

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Anne Bancroft has died.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Bastard. :-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

This is the major suck.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Poor Mel. :(

― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, they were one of my favorite showbiz couples.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

info, where?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

WOAH

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

It just flashed across the wires. There should be a story soon.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

RIP pretty and talented lady.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Loved her in '84 Charing Cross Road'.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

RIP MIRACLE WORKER!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Anne Bancroft, dead at 73

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

So very, very sad :-(

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

she was beyond awesome.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

bummers
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

That's really sad. Was she still married to Mel Brooks?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Yup. 41 years.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Bugger. :(

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

R.I.P - such a lovely lady and so talented.

as M.White said, i LOVED "84 charing cross road".

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

One of the most lovely things ever about the Brooks/Bancroft marriage, I thought, was the fact that Mel Brooks purchased the film rights to 84 Charing Cross Road and gave them to her as an anniversary gift. Now that to my mind is class all around.

It's not necessarily one of Brooks' best but the remake of To Be Or Not to Be, where Brooks and Bancroft got to play off each other, remains a treat.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

I loved seeing her on Curb Your Enthusiasm last year.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

she'll be missed.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

"as M.White said, i LOVED "84 charing cross road"."

double-ditto. one of my fave films.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

anthony.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

Aw, man.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

I watched Brando's One Eyed Jacks again the other night and noticed a very young AB plays the street vendor "Kid" (Brando) buys a necklace from. Pretty sure it was her and she was gorgeous.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

The classic poster for The Graduate is how I will remember her. Even though it's only of her legs. She wuz awesome.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

My parents were involved in staging a pantomime with the British Embassy people in Poland, when they were stationed in Warsaw, and they asked me if they had any ideas for a final song to finish off with. So I furnished them with the soundtrack to "To be or not to be" with Mel and Anne's version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" in polish.

Went down a storm, they had to encore with it as well.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

who can forget?

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/gallery/2005/06/08/leg300.jpg

and still stunning a few years ago

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/gallery/2005/06/08/anne300.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

She was only 6 years older than Hoffman. Their perfs still hold up and distract you from how the second half of The Graduate isn't very good. Love her cigarette exhalation gag.

Mel and Anne's version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" in Polish was the only thing about the To Be remake that wasn't disgraceful.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

Disgraceful? Well, I really enjoyed that film, although I hadn't seen the previous versions. Why?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

For the first time, I agree with Dr. Morbius.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

Why why why?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Or is this not the time and the place? Fair enough...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

fwiw i think "the graduate" is mostly awful but Bancroft is incredibe in it.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

There was only one previous version of 2B (Lubitsch-Jack Benny-Carole Lombard) which MB's doesn't remotely approach. Brooks' films headed for the drain shortly after he started playing the lead.

AB did cross her eyes nicely in Silent Movie.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

she was also great in "The Elephant Man"

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Too young :-(.

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

"Agnes of God" was terrible despite her efforts (well you can't really show much creative spirit when your character is a dowdy mother superior and the movie is 95% comprised of grey convent walls). In her memory they should burn the source tape.

Bye Anne.

― JTS, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

she was brilliant, wise, funny, clever and just a little bit nasty, with a charming yiddish charm, in the few scenes she had in keeping the faith--a movie that i think was too genuine and honest in how religion is lived, to be very popular.

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

she was the only reason i kept watching Point Of No Return last week - it was late but i stayed up because she kept appearing and adding these odd sad magnetic punctuations to every line she delivered. people probably wind up saying "she was a class act" over and over about actors like bancroft because they're afraid of sounding like unhinged melancholics if they get any more specific.

― jones (actual), Thursday, 9 June 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

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― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

fourteen years pass...

I think I saw most of The Miracle Worker when I was very young and I had no idea of the film was obscure or not until last night I saw the trailer (getting a bluray) on Eureka label's youtube channel and I'm guessing it's the same film surely? Major scene I remember had them communicating through balloon vibrations. Different film?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 7 December 2019 19:06 (six years ago)

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