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Article: Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.(Anne Bancroft)(Obituary)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- June 8, 2005
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HOLLYWOOD -- Anne Bancroft, best known for her perf as the adult seducer of her daughter's boyfriend in "The Graduate," died Monday of uterine cancer in New York. She was 73.
The stage, screen and television actress was winner of an Oscar, two Tonys and two Emmys.
The longtime spouse of writer-director Mel Brooks won her Oscar for "The Miracle Worker," which had also brought her a second Tony. The first came for "Two for the Seesaw,' the play that had made her a star. She won two Emmys, for variety special "Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man" and TV movie "Deep in My Heart."
She also received an Oscar nom for her seminal role as Mrs. ...