Experience Anne Bancroft

Here I will endeavor to share samples of Anne's rare TV appearances, including singing, comedy sketches and talk shows. Obtaining the right software to transfer the old tapes has taken longer to work out than I had anticipated, but I am very excited about what you're going to hear in this section in short order. Humble thanks to Trisha J. and Jeff F. for their assistance with this page!

Ann Randolph's site has a brief, but nice, interview with Anne and Mel about Squeezebox on her main page here.

Clips from Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man (1970)
Anne's interview on Good Morning America (1987) for 84 Charing Cross Road (requires Flash). Watch (click only once)	Anne's interview on Good Morning America (02-23-89) for Bert Rigby, You're a Fool and Torch Song Trilogy (requires Flash). Watch (click only once)
Clip from Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004). Watch (click only once)	Clip from Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004). Watch (click only once)
Listen to Anne's voice sample from voicebank.net.
Now available for free at YouTube here! Anne's interview with Charlie Rose (04-25-00) is a must-see. Google Video will sell you the opportunity to see it as often as you wish, for a one-time payment of just 99-cents. Go here, set up an account quickly, download Google Video Player quickly, search for Anne's videos, buy it, and watch the full, wonderful hour... it's as easy as that! If you don't wish to purchase the full hour, you can at least see the first 3 minutes here for free. While you're over at Google, there is a short video here from last year when the lights of Broadway were dimmed. Susie notes that if you have an iPod, you can go to iTunes and get Charlie's interview with Anne as an audio book for $6.95 and download it to your iPod. Or you iPod users might try downloading it here for free -- I don't have an iPod and have no way of knowing if this link works, I'd love to get some feedback about it.
A great moment from The Miracle Worker (requires Flash). Watch (click only once)	My favorite clip from The Miracle Worker -- the scene that captured me for life (requires Flash). Watch (click only once)
Here's a brief interview with Anne about her love for Fire Island, NY (05-29-99) by Savvy Traveler for public radio (show has since gone off the air). Thanks, Trisha J.! Listen	Here's a favorite clip from To Be or Not To Be -- Anne & Mel dance and sing "Sweet Georgia Brown" in Polish (requires Flash). Watch (click only once)

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Here are some interesting/quirky items found at YouTube:

Anne presents Oscar to Sidney Poitier	Lovely tribute to Anne

Anne talks about her role as Annie Sullivan	Clip from Anne's 1987 Terry Wogan interview (begins about 5:55)

Tribute to photographer Bob Willoughby (Anne is at 1:03 & 2:43	Casting Anne Bancroft in "The Graduate"

"Lipstick" trailer	"The Miracle Worker" original trailer

"The Elephant Man" trailer	"The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" trailer

After the Countess wins in "The Hindenburg"	Nice scene from "The Hindenburg"

"How to Make an American Quilt" trailer	Long dinner scene from "Home for the Holidays"

"Seven Women" original trailer	Promo for "The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All"

Lovely scene from "The Miracle Worker"	"The Turning Point" class warmups

"Home for the Holidays" trailer	"The Graduate" original trailer

Breakfast scene from "The Miracle Worker"	"Delgo" trailer

"The Slender Thread" trailer	RIP Anne Bancroft

Romantic scene from "Gorilla at Large"	"Gorilla at Large" trailer

Last 5 mins. of "The Miracle Worker"	"Seven Women" (last 5 minutes)

Excellent clip from "Silent Movie"	"Bert Rigby" Clip with Robert Lindsay

The Lemonheads "Mrs. Robinson"	Great Catfights: MacLaine vs. Bancroft

And enjoy these film trailers, courtesy of The Video Detective
(scroll down a wee bit on each page and click on the "preview" link):

"The Miracle Worker"	"The Graduate"
"The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue"	"The Elephant Man"
"Garbo Talks"	"Agnes of God"

E! has a nice page of AB film trailers here.

Here is the current national cable TV schedule for the month to you can catch Anne's movies at home -- plus there is a link at that page to check your local listings, too!

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away."