ANNE BANCROFT, AT 73; FROM STAGE TO TELEVISION TO SCREEN, A SPIRITED FORCE

The Boston Globe | June 8, 2005| | Copyright

Anne Bancroft, the fiery, funny, larger-than-life actress who turned the role of a bored adulteress into a household name, died of cancer yesterday at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York at the age of 73.

She will be remembered as many things: an eternal Manhattanite, the wife and co-conspirator of comic madman Mel Brooks, one of the few winners of acting's triple crown, a performer whose theatrical gifts could shade into subtlety or blossom into outright ham.

More than anything, two roles burned Ms. Bancroft into the popular consciousness. As Helen Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, in "The Miracle ...

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