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Anne Bancroft: Stars
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Anne Bancroft stars in this made-for-TV film about the Tillerman children, who go off in search of the mother who abandoned them. Instead, they find their grandmother (Bancroft), a stodgy woman who at first resists the children's affections.
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In January of 1958 Bancroft made her Broadway debut in William Gibson's Two for the Seesaw. The two-person play featured her as a bohemian girl from the Bronx who has an affair with a married businessman (Henry Fonda). It was an unmitigated success, with such glowing reviews as that of John McLain's of the N.Y. Journal America, as quoted by Les Spindle in Back Stage West: "Bancroft threatens at times to take the entire theatre under her arm and go home. She can swear outlandishly without being at all vulgar; in the next sentence, she can break your heart." The plaudits were topped off with Bancroft's winning a Tony Award for best featured actress in 1958, and her lagging career was jump-started.
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Ms. Bancroft voices the villain Sedessa, an intelligent and eccentric leader who is as charming as she is ambitious. The film ... stars, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Chris Kattan, Val Kilmer, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kelly Ripa, Burt Reynolds, Eric Idle, Lou Gossett, Jr, and Malcolm McDowell.
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