Anne Bancroft, known for her perf as the seductress of her daughter’s boyfriend in “The Graduate,” as well as her Oscar-winning role in “The Miracle Worker,” died Monday of uterine cancer in New York.

NEW YORK -- Despite a long list of memorable film and stage roles, Anne Bancroft was best remembered for her role as Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate." It was a part she almost didn't take. She said in ...

(NY-AP) June 7, 2005 - It's probably not how she wanted to be remembered. The actress best known for playing the seductive Mrs. Robinson in the 1967 movie "The Graduate" has died. Anne Bancroft was 73 ...

New York (AP) -- 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 ...

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Anne Bancroft, who died of cancer Monday at 73, was an Academy Award and Tony award-winning actress known, above all, for her portrayal of the world-weary, frustrated Mrs. Robinson in “The Graduate.” ...

I was a freshman in college when I met Mrs. Robinson. It was 1968, a year of assassination, war and social turmoil. So there I was, in the middle of a theater, viewing "The Graduate," listening to ...

"To this day, when men meet me, there's always that movie in the back of their mind," Anne Bancroft said to me in the winter of 2002. She was referring, of course, to a movie she'd made half a ...