Anne Bancroft winning Best Actress | 35th Oscars (1963)

Despite her character becoming an archetype of the “older woman” role, Anne Bancroft was only 36 years old at the time she starred as the much older mother of the woman Dustin Hoffman would eventually fall in love with—just eight years older than her onscreen daughter, Katharine Ross and just six years older than Dustin Hoffman. Isn’t that crazy???!!! The most iconic and enduring quote from The Graduate is “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me... aren’t you?” 😎 Did you know that The Gradua

Mel Brooks on his wife Anne Bancroft