Graduate star Anne Bancroft dies
Anne Bancroft with husband Mel Brooks
Anne Bancroft was married to comedian Mel Brooks
Oscar-winning actress Anne Bancroft, who starred opposite Dustin Hoffman in 1967 film The Graduate, has died.
The actress, who was 73, died of cancer, spokesman John Barlow said.
She had five Oscar nominations, including one win for playing the teacher of a young Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker in 1963.
She married comedian Mel Brooks the following year and her most famous role came as the mother of Hoffman's girlfriend who seduced the younger man.
The Graduate earned her third Oscar nomination, after The Miracle Worker and 1964 marriage drama The Pumpkin Eater.
She was also up for Academy Awards for ballet saga The Turning Point in 1978 and as a nun in 1985 thriller Agnes of God.
She died of uterine cancer on Monday at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, Mr Barlow said.
In 2003, she complained that her role as Mrs Robinson in The Graduate overshadowed her other acting.
"I am quite surprised that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker," she said.
"We're talking about Mrs Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet."
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