# "...and here's to you, Mrs. Robinson" Anne Bancroft dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360 "2005-06-07T21:36:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/1 "2005-06-07T21:36:27Z")
Just saw this on Fox News. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/2 "2005-06-07T21:42:26Z")
[Apparently](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050607/ap_on_en_mo/obit_bancroft). ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/3 "2005-06-07T21:52:15Z")
Hard to imagine Mrs. Robinson was mariied to [Dr. Richard Thorndyke](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000316/)?! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/4 "2005-06-07T22:11:50Z")
Koo-koo-ka-choo, Mrs. Robinson… ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/5 "2005-06-07T22:14:31Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > Hard to imagine > > Mrs. Robinson was mariied to [Dr. Richard Thorndyke](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000316/)?! :eek: 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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=319298) daughter. They don’t know that the [Car Talk guys](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=319916) had degrees. Now this. It’s true: video games are ruining America’s youth! ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/6 "2005-06-07T22:14:33Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/7 "2005-06-07T22:19:17Z")
She was also memorable in _The Miracle Worker_. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/8 "2005-06-07T22:29:31Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/9 "2005-06-07T22:32:41Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/10 "2005-06-07T22:32:56Z")
> [@teela brown](#): > > I thought she was married to Mel Brooks? [Dr. Richard Throndyke](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076141/) was Mel’s character in _High Anxiety_. ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/11 "2005-06-07T22:41:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/12 "2005-06-07T23:10:22Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > She was also memorable in _The Miracle Worker_. 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. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/13 "2005-06-07T23:13:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/14 "2005-06-07T23:14:57Z")
Posted that 3 minutes too late … sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/15 "2005-06-08T00:23:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/16 "2005-06-08T00:33:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/17 "2005-06-08T02:00:45Z")
She was fantastic. I hope Mel’s holding up okay. I always thought they were such a cool couple. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/18 "2005-06-08T02:12:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/19 "2005-06-08T02:13:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360/20 "2005-06-08T04:28:17Z")
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._ ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-heres-to-you-mrs-robinson-anne-bancroft-dead/307360.md?page=2)