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...wanted parts that called for something more than guttural one-liners, but the pattern seemed set. Then, in March 1968, Fox announced that it had purchased the rights to Myra. Trouble was, Fox was at a loss to cast the transsexual title role. Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury and Anne Bancroft were considered. Fox even tested eight real transvestites, but decided that an uncloseted queen just wouldn't do. Then Producer Robert Fryer (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) had an inspiration. "If a man were going to become a woman, he would want to become the most beautiful woman...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, p.m.). Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch and James Mason in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), about a woman whose fourth marriage has reached a shattering crisis stage...
KRAFT MUSIC HALL&$151;WITH PETER COOK AND DUDLEY MOORE FROM LONDON (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Featuring two of the Beyond the Fringe zanies and their guests, Anne Bancroft and Mel Torme, in the first of two specials produced in England...
...TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke both won Oscars for their roles in The Miracle Worker...
Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center--Two interesting, if not great, productions--Lee J. Cobb in director Gerald Freedman's "King Lear" and Frank Langella and Anne Bancroft as the Shakespeares in William Gibson's new "Cry of Players." At the VIVIAN BEAUMONT, W. 65th...