Article: Inside story: `I got stuck in a role rut' It may be the role of a lifetime - but is it worth jeopardising the rest of your career for? We ask three icons who will forever be remembered for `that part'.(Features)

Byline: Debra L Wallace

ANNE BANCROFT, 71, played the most famous toy boy shagger of all time as Mrs Robinson in 1967's The Graduate. She lives in New York with her husband, writer and director Mel Brooks. They have a son, Max.

`Mrs. Robinson is a part I'm happy to be identified with, but it's not my favourite role. You know, once I'm through with a part, I'm through with it, goodbye. I'm looking to the future. Mrs Robinson is so far behind me that I didn't even see the show in London or on Broadway.

I feel my first signature role was as Annie ...

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