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Anne Bancroft: Miracle Worker
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Anne Bancroft was an iconic Academy Award, Golden Globe, Tony, and Emmy-winning American actress. In 1958 she appeared opposite Henry Fonda in the Broadway production of Two for the Seesaw, for which she won a Tony Award, and another in 1960 for The Miracle Worker. She took the latter role back to Hollywood, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1962.
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NEW YORK - Anne Bancroft, who won the 1962 best actress Oscar as the teacher of a young Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker" but achieved greater fame as the seductive Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate," has died. She was 73. She died of cancer on Monday at Mount Sinai Hospital, John Barlow, a spokesman for her husband, Mel Brooks, said Tuesday.
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Born in the Bronx in 1931, Anne Bancroft starred on stage and screen in such hits as The Miracle Worker and The Graduate. In 1964 she married Mel Brooks. She died on June 6, 2005. Her career can still be enjoyed through viewing these titles that are part of the Library’s collection.
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Actress Anne Bancroft, 73, who came to define a generation of outdated parents attempting to relate to the apathetic next generation with an Oscar-nominated performance in the 1967 classic "The Graduate," has died from cancer. With more than 50 television and film performances to her credit, Bancroft was nominated for five Oscars in her lifetime, winning Best Actress in 1963 for "The Miracle Worker."
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[C]ame Two for the Seesaw (1958), in which Bancroft played a kooky Jewish ballet dancer, who has an affair with a lawyer, played by Henry Fonda. Bancroft studied at the Actors’ Studio, the New York studio associated with intense Method acting technique, and she was duly compared with its acclaimed alumnus Marlon Brando. So completely successful was she in becoming her character in Two for the Seesaw that she had to go to therapy to find her true self again. It was followed by The Miracle Worker, with Bancroft as Annie Sullivan, who takes on the challenge of teaching communication skills to Helen Keller (played by the 12-year-old Patty Duke), who is blind, deaf, mute and antisocial. Bancroft’s character is herself almost blind. To prepare for the role she spent weeks working with blind children, and to experience the loss of sight for herself she tried to go about life in an unfamiliar neighbourhood with bandages over her eyes.
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Returning to New York in the late 1950s, Bancroft found success on the Broadway stage. She co-starred with Henry Fonda in William Gibson’s Two for the Seesaw, which was directed by Arthur Penn. Her portrayal of a bohemian dancer netted her a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1958. Again showing her talent for transformation, Bancroft tackled another challenging role in The Miracle Worker the next year. Again working with Penn, she played Annie Sullivan, a teacher of the blind, who tries to help Helen Keller (played by Patty Duke), a young blind anddeaf girl, learn to communicate. Bancroft won another Tony Award for her convincing performance as the devoted and determined educator.
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