Anne Bancroft, the potent film and stage actress ... in the stage and screen versions of "The Miracle Worker," died of uterine cancer Monday at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.

Anne Bancroft was one of the few performers to ... Helen Keller's feisty teacher Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker and Mrs. Robinson, the sultry older woman who seduces Dustin Hoffman in ...

The story of Anne Sullivan's efforts to teach Helen Keller, a young Victorian-era blind and deaf girl, how to communicate is so well-known, it's taken on an almost legendary quality. Helen had ...

Anne Bancroft has won several awards throughout her career. Some of her notable wins include the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for "The Miracle Worker." ...

Immortalized on screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke ... With compassion, humor and dramatic tension, The Miracle Worker explores the volatile relationship between a lonely teacher and her ...

Anne Bancroft, the versatile, husky-voiced actress who won an Academy Award for portraying Helen Keller’s teacher in “The Miracle Worker” but will forever be remembered as the coldly seducti ...

Working frequently with director Arthur Penn, he helped make a star of actress Anne Bancroft in the plays “The Miracle Worker” (1959) and “Two for the Seesaw” (1958). They also ...

Anne Bancroft, known for her perf as the seductress of her daughter’s boyfriend in “The Graduate,” as well as her Oscar-winning role in “The Miracle Worker,” died Monday of uterine ...

Anne Bancroft can! Her stage work in the following year earned her yet another statue at the 1960 Tony Awards for her portrayal of Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker (Fun fact: she reprised the ...