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Anne Bancroft: Roles
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Anne Bancroft made it sexy to be middle-aged, and with her spanking body it's easy to see why maturity has its pluses. Those assets were front and center in her most famous role as the sexual dynamo Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967). That movie ... marks her sole skin onscreen. Seducing her daughter's beau, played by Dustin Hoffman, she flashes shocking breastage, … Join Mr. Skin to read her entire Biography
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In her most famous role, Bancroft is super as the sexy, wryly unhappy older woman who seduces her daughter’s 21-year-old boyfriend. AFI ranks this classic black comedy as the seventh-best movie ever. The pic’s seven Oscar noms include Best Picture, director Mike Nichols (he won), the adapted screenplay by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham and the performances of Dustin Hoffman, Bancroft and Katherine Ross.
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Bancroft made her film debut with her new name in 1952's Don't Bother To Knock. Starring Marilyn Monroe and Richard Widmark, the movie gave Monroe her first big dramatic role and featured Bancroft as a cabaret singer, but hardly made Bancroft a household name. Other films of that time included The Kid from Left Field (1953), Gorilla at Large (1954), and Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954). After her contract with Fox lapsed, Bancroft remained in California for a time as an independent artist, appearing in such movies as New York Confidential (1955), The Last Frontier (1955), Walk the Proud Land (1956), and Nightfall (1957). But neither did these later efforts bring Bancroft any particular notice.
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In her first screen role, 20-year-old Bancroft does a good supporting turn as the nightclub singer whose rejection sends unreliable boyfriend Richard Widmark into the arms of Marilyn Monroe. MM is very good as a mentally ill woman who tries to hold it together through one stressful night of babysitting. Bancroft has a memorable scene where she attempts to talk the Marilyn out of suicide.
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Almost from the start, Mike Nichols knew that Anne Bancroft should play the seductive Mrs. Robinson. But the young film director surprised himself, as well as everyone else, with his choice for "The Graduate's" misfit hero, Benjamin Braddock: not Robert Redford, who'd wanted the role, but a little-known Jewish stage actor, Dustin Hoffman. From producer Lawrence Turman's $1,000 option of a minor novel in 1964 to the movie's out-of-left-field triumph three years later, Sam Kashner recalls a breako
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Bancroft became a pop culture icon five years later when she tackled the role of seductive Mrs. Robinson opposite a young Dustin Hoffman in the film ''The Graduate." The movie made older women seem more sexually appealing to younger men, turned Hoffman into a star and earned Bancroft another Oscar nod. She ... received Academy nominations for ''The Pumpkin Eater," "The Turning Point" and "Agnes of God."
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