Just saw this on Fox News.
Hard to imagine
Mrs. Robinson was mariied to Dr. Richard Thorndyke?! :eek:
Koo-koo-ka-choo, Mrs. Robinson…
For the last 41 years. Since before The Graduate. You’re just hearing about it now? :dubious:
What is it with Dopers these days.
They don’t know that Maya Rudolph was Minnie Ripperton’s daughter.
They don’t know that the Car Talk guys had degrees.
Now this. It’s true: video games are ruining America’s youth!
Ooops. Didn’t see this thread when I started the other.
Still, for someone of her stature, two threads isn’t too much to ask.
The woman had a lot of class!
She was also memorable in The Miracle Worker.
I just saw her in 84, Charing Cross Lane as Helene Hanff, a part which suited her to a T.
I thought she was married to Mel Brooks?
Teela, Dr Richard Thorndyke is Mel Brooks. High Anxiety. And yeah, I thought that was pretty cool. She said she liked men who made her laugh. I can relate.
Dr. Richard Throndyke was Mel’s character in High Anxiety.
Miracle worker and Graduate were good work where my mind went first.
Her Mary Magdelan in Jesus of Nazareth was pretty memorable too. In fact other than Jesus her performance is the only one I still recalled w/o imdb. So when imdb tells me “Anne received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her work in television” I am unsurprised.
In some ways she and Brooks were an under the radar super-couple – can you imagine what dinner at the Brook’s must have been like? Wow!
RIP, neat Lady.
The role that earned her a Tony & an Oscar (her other nominations: Agnes of God, The Turning Point, The Pumpkin Eater and Mrs. Robinson). Her other Tony was for “Two for the Seesaw”, and she had 2 Emmy wins as well. Combined with husband Brooks (1 Oscar, 3 Emmys, 1 Grammy, 3 Tonys), that was one heck of an awards shelf.
An unlikely, but terrifically likable, show-biz couple. RIP. 
Wow that is sad. I loved her in “Dracula - Dead And Loving It” (among many other movies of course).
Many people have mentioned “The Miracle Worker” (1962) and so for the few who weren’t aware of this, she won the Best Actress Academy Award for that role.
Rest well Anne.
Posted that 3 minutes too late … sorry.
She was the only thing great about Great Expectations- the demented sensuality of her Miss Havisham (actually Ms. Dinsmoor, but the Ms. Havisham character) was Oscar worthy in a movie that was straight to video worthy.
Ah, she’ll be missed. She was human saffron- just a little dose added such spice and color and elegance.
Yes, she will be missed. Best wishes to her husband, and family.
By all accounts a very classy lady, as well as a very talented actress.
She was fantastic. I hope Mel’s holding up okay. I always thought they were such a cool couple.
I saw her and Mel a few years back. It was at the musical Oklahoma! and they were there watching the show. I feel so bad for Mel. I know he is a big hypocondriac and knows a lot about medicine and disease so her dying of cancer had to be extreme torture.
Anna Maria Italiano was, I think, the most famous person ever to come out of my neighborhood in the Bronx. Local lore said whe she was growing up she lived in an apartment over the candy store at the corner of Zerega and St. Raymond’s Avenues, a few blocks from my house.
I loved her in all her different roles.
Standing out in my mind was her performance in Torch Song Trilogy and in the remake of To Be Or Not To Be with her husband.
Shit.