Topic: Anne Bancroft
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It was absolutely love at first sight -- like when I first met Mel Brooks
Actress Anne Bancroft produces first play Jul 06, 2004
It was like, 'OK, this has been done before, and it was done really well, but it really hasn't been done since.' I like that this is a revival of it. I liked that it was one of the first movies that I saw. So, I was really, really looking forward to being able to inspire kids in the way that it inspired me, and it's been challenging. I mean, I'm exhausted to the bone, physically and mentally
Entertainment Today: Showbiz News Mar 27, 2003
Anne Bancroft (September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress associated with the Method acting school, which she had studied under Lee Strasberg.
She made her film debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) and, following a string of supporting film roles during the 1950s, won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Miracle Worker (1962), receiving subsequent nominations for her roles in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Graduate (1967), The Turning Point (1977), and Agnes of God (1985). Bancroft's other acclaimed movies as a lead actress include Young Winston (1972), The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), To Be or Not to Be (1983), and 84 Charing Cross Road (1987).
Later in her career, she made the transition back to supporting roles in theatrical films such as Point of No Return (1993), Home for the Holidays (1995), Great Expectations (1998), Antz (1998),Keeping the Faith (2000), and Heartbreakers (2001). She also starred in seven television films, the last of which was The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003) for which she received Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
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