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...achieve such precise stagecraft, Actress Bancroft worked hard with a variety of teachers, still submits to the rigorous and introspective training of the Actors' Studio. What sets Anne apart from other Method actors is the stubborn perseverance with which she has kept her quick and sensitive emotions unfettered by theory and cant. "I've never liked to read," says she. "But I don't cover up my ignorance ; if I admit it, people will teach me. On the third TV show I ever did, Rod Steiger told me about Stanislavsky. I said...
Mamma Was Boss. So much of Anne Bancroft seems never to have left home that one friend still describes her as "a Girl Scout of The Bronx, leading Brownies through Palisades Park." Anne likes to disagree. "I get so tired of saying I was born in The Bronx," says she. But the continuing search for herself keeps taking her back to the series of low-rent apartments in the neighborhood of St. Peter's Avenue. "We were a typical Italian family," says Anne, "very lower middle class." Mamma was the boss. It was Mamma, working as a telephone operator...
...last, Anna Maria Louise Italiano chose the Hollywood name, Anne Bancroft, from a list handed out by Darryl Zanuck; it was the only name, she thought, that "did not sound like I should look like Lana Turner." Hollywood historians remember her first movie, Don't Bother to Knock, chiefly because it was the first big role for a future star named Marilyn Monroe. Anne Bancroft was just an added starter...
...turns 13 this week-notwithstanding the pressagentry that kept her ten years old for three years-Patty backstage is still often the grade-school child, an inveterate lap sitter. Onstage she is a polished professional who can think on her feet. Once, when a set door stuck and Anne Bancroft swore helplessly under her breath, Patty promptly began making her "noises," the grunts of the speechless, to cover Anne's indiscretion. When Anne finally whispered, "I'm going to shove you out the window," Patty made the drop and managed to make her way to her stage mother...
Bronx to Broadway. The approaching maturity which Patty-and her agent-would dearly love to delay, is exactly what her backstage friend Anne Bancroft has been hunting down for years. At 28, Anne has progressed from The Bronx to Broadway, where the people she portrays still seem more meaningful and manageable than Anne Bancroft herself...