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THE GRADUATE ANNE BANCROFT 1967 (RIP BY ENORME72) THE GRADUATE ANN BANCROFT 1967 (RIP BY ENORME72)
Mrs. Robinson dies at age 73
By Jerry Tallmer
(More) THE GRADUATE ANN BANCROFT 1967 (RIP BY ENORME72)
Mrs. Robinson dies at age 73
By Jerry Tallmer
There are only six of us left on this earth who remember a movie called "Don't Bother to Knock." It was released in 1952 -- script by Daniel Taradash and Charlotte Armstrong (from her novel), direction by Roy Ward Baker -- and it was the flick in which Marilyn Monroe, as a sub-psychotic baby sitter, gave the best performance of her life, or, if you like, second best to what she did in "The Misfits."
"Don't Bother to Knock" is set in a New York hotel, where a husband and wife from squaresville need somebody to keep an eye for a few hours on their young daughter, Bunny, while they, the hicks, attend a banquet of some sort. A slightly off-center hotel elevator operator (Elisha Cook, Jr.) has just the answer, his teenage niece, Nell — and they go for it!
Nell of course is quite a bit farther off center. After fingering all the perfume and soaps and jewelry in the place, she stares out the window at a man in another room of the same hotel. On the house phone they strike up a conversation. He (Richard Widmark) is an airline pilot who has just had a fight with his girlfriend, the thrush -- the cabaret singer -- in the bar and lounge downstairs.
This glamorous young woman is played by an actress who in that year must have been 20 years old (Monroe was 25) and in the very first of some 65 motion pictures she was in from 1952 to 2002. Her name was Anne Bancroft. At the end of the picture, when the baby sitter is being escorted off the premises, Monroe looks at Widmark and Bancroft, who have reunited, and murmurs, with wonder: "People who love one another."
In 1952, Bancroft's performance would have been six years before "Two for the Seesaw" on Broadway, which is where her fire and talent and sexuality first hit most of us between the eyes; would have been seven years before "The Miracle Worker" on Broadway, which deepened and strengthened the foregoing; ten years before the movie of "The Miracle Worker"; and 15 years before the film that forever more would imprint her upon the world as Mrs. Robinson, sneering seducer of a kid who will fumble his way out of bed with her and into bed with her daughter.
But before "The Graduate" -- three years before "The Graduate" -- there was a movie that those six of us left on earth who saw this one, too, will surely never forget. I first saw it that summer of '64 in London -- at a screening also attended, as it happens, by Eli Walach and Anne Jackson, which complicates things for people who say "Anne Jackson" when they mean "Anne Bancroft," or "Anne Bancroft" when they mean "Anne Jackson."
"The Pumpkin Eater," script by Harold Pinter from the novel by Penelope Mortimer, direction by Jack Clayton -- is set mostly in London, and it is in fact smack in the middle of Harrods department store in the middle of London that Jo Armitage (Bancroft), simply gorgeous in a big side-of-the-head picture hat, has a full-blown nervous breakdown because her husband Jake (Peter Finch, the one and only) is carrying on with the reckless, nerveless young Philpott (Maggie Smith, the other and only) while she, Jo, gives tender loving birth to child after child after child.
The moment in Harrods is almost topped by Bancroft's throwing a cup of coffee or tea or soup or something all over the obnoxious businessman (James Mason) who's trying to move in on Peter Finch's lost ground. If you need one more big talent, it's Sir Cedrick Hardwicke as Bancroft's father.
In 1994 she was nominated for an Emmy for her TV performance as the 99-year-old heroine of Allan Gurganus's "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All." Gurganus was on the set daily in a small part. "She was fantastic, totally professional," he says. "With the energy of a 26-year-old" -- though she was then 63. "Everybody, even the extras, felt easy talking with her. She bought tremendous stature to the role, and obviously had read all 800 pages of the book."
Each of us has our own Anne Bancroft. The Pumpkin Eater's was mine and will remain mine. William Gibson, who wrote "Two for the Seesaw" and "The Miracle Worker" and "The Seesaw Log," that 1959 memoir about, among other things, how Broadway newcomer Bancroft held her own against the royal aloofness of Henry Fonda, probably has two or three Bancrofts in his head, or more.
Anna Louisa Maria Italiano was born in the Bronx on September 17, 1931. She died on June 6, 2005, in Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City. Mel Brooks has lost a star, and so have we. (Less)
Naruto is the Luckiest Loser ...
well, where should i start?
its all in naruto's point of view of sasuke and his new (More) ...
well, where should i start?
its all in naruto's point of view of sasuke and his new girlfriend (sakura)...
yah...
(i don't actually like sasusaku or narusaku BLEH) ^^
enjoy! ^^
Man, you're really one heck of a guy
best friend since Jr. High
you showed me Playboy for the very first time
that was rad
We saw Bon Jovi, we sat in the front row
I pierced your ear right before the show
we stole your brother's beer and he didn't know, whoa
Whoa, your new girlfriend is a son of a gun
did you fall in love or did you just wanna get some? (just wanna get some?)
That girl is crazy, she's a locomotion
I know you know she used to be my girl
you'd better run for cover, 'cause she's ticking like a time bomb
and did I mention that you both suck dot com?
now your stuck with her
like mellencamp is stuck with cougar
guess that makes me the luckiest loser
I met her at a kegger passed out in the yard
getting in her pants wasn't really that hard
6 months later she crashed my car
that was rad
She's got a glow from her spray on tan
Marilyn Manson is her favorite band
I really think she mite worship satan
not a fan
Whoa, Your new boyfriend is a son of a gun
did you fall in love or did you just wanna get some? (just wanna get some?)
That girl is crazy, she's a locomotion
I know you know she used to be my girl
you should run for cover, 'cause she's ticking like a time bomb
and did I mention that you both suck dot com?
now she's stuck with you
like a frat guy with a bad tattoo
like celebrity golf with Alice Cooper
guess that makes me the luckiest loser
Mel Gibson, Danny Glover
you deserve each other
A lethal weapon when you take her home to meet your mother
she was a superstar
backseat of my car
those days are over now, but life goes on, yeah
Your new girlfriend is a son of a gun
did you fall in love or did you just wanna get some? (just wanna get some?) (just wanna get some?)
Yeah
That girl is crazy, she's a locomotion
I know you know she used to be my girl
you'd better run for cover, 'cause she's ticking like a time bomb
and did I mention that you both suck dot com?
now your stuck with her
like melincamp is stuck with cougar
like number two on a pooper scooper
I guess that makes me the luckiest loser
That girl is crazy, she's a locomotion (luckiest loser)
I know you know she used to be my girl (luckiest loser)
you'd better run for cover, 'cause she's ticking like a time bomb (luckiest loser)
and did I mention that you both suck? (Less)
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