Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Money for Dates. Bronx neighbors still remember the thin, dark-haired girl on the way home from school, munching a 5? pickle and reading plays as she walked. But in her senior year Anne inexplicably decided to become a lab technician and work nobly at the side of some great researcher. Mamma again called the shots, scraped up the $500 tuition to send Anne to the august American Academy of Dramatic Arts. It was just two weeks before graduation from the Academy that she was discovered practicing alone on the school's darkened stage while everyone else...
...Anne tried for a church annulment and failed; Martin then got a divorce on the ground of mental cruelty. Anne no longer enjoyed the life of a Hollywood bachelor girl. "One can always be popular with the boys," she says, "but the rules are different in Hollywood than The Bronx. Out there you play for keeps...
...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...
...Moss Hart. Playwright (You Can't Take It with You) and Director (My Fair Lady) Hart tells of his youthful trek from The Bronx to Broadway. Few memoirs, theatrical or otherwise, can equal this autobiography's suspenseful plot, zany supporting cast and surefire humor...