Word: itness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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No 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...
In 1951, 20th Century-Fox screen-tested an aspiring actor named Doug Rogers, and Anne agreed to help him out by playing opposite. Result: no one noticed Rogers (says Anne: "I don't know where the kid is now"), but Fox signed Anne. Of course Mamma went along to...
On her own at 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...
Eccentric Alliance. Hollywood gossips kept track of Anne's long and apparently aimless list of dates. Says she: "I wanted to get married-just about anybody would have done. I'd even thought of marrying Jessel." She finally married Martin A. May, nine years her senior, the son...
After the couple moved into one apartment, it was often filled with young actors sitting up all night reading plays. "Annie was intense about everything," May remembers now. "She'd lie on the floor and watch television by the hour, or she'd fry an egg, standing there...