Ann Bancroft has died

[Raph's Girl]

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Anne Bancroft, the Americanhusky-voiced beauty who rose from an Italian neighborhood in New York to become a Hollywood star immortalized as the seductive Mrs. Robinson in 1967's "The Graduate" has died.

She was 73.

Bancroft died in New York of uterine cancer, a representative for her husband, Mel Brooks, said on Tuesday.

Brooks' spokeswoman said the actress died on Monday evening at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

Born Anna Maria Italiano in 1931 in New York's Bronx borough, she got her start in movies in the 1950s.

She won an Oscar for her 1962 film "The Miracle Worker," where she played the teacher to Helen Keller in the movie directed by Arthur Penn.

Over her long career, she garnered a further four Academy Award nominations and won two
Tony Awards for her work on the Broadway stage, including one for the stage version of "The Miracle Worker" in 1960.

In 1964, she married comedian and director Mel Brooks.

Raph's Girl note: Wow! I didn't know she was married to Mel Brooks!