{"id":22430,"date":"2022-03-24T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22430"},"modified":"2022-03-16T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T17:56:11","slug":"anne-bancroft-a-life-a-fascinating-look-at-bancrofts-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/03\/24\/anne-bancroft-a-life-a-fascinating-look-at-bancrofts-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Bancroft: A Life<\/em> a fascinating look at Bancroft’s life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As a movie fan and an aspiring filmmaker, I love reading books about old Hollywood. The main thing that makes Anne Bancroft: A Life<\/i>, Douglass K. Daniel\u2019s beautifully written new biography on the life of legendary actress Anne Bancroft, so fascinating is everything the reader learns about Bancroft and old Hollywood as a whole.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What I loved about this novel is how each page seems to bleed knowledge. For example, the book starts off with a short description about how the eras of World War II and the Great Depression were seen as the golden age of Hollywood. According to Daniel, humankind\u2019s need to escape from the harsh reality of war resulted in the rise of Hollywood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What Daniel means by this is that before World War II broke out, the Hollywood industry had not been doing so great. There were no breakout hits at the box office outside of the movies that had big Hollywood stars in them. Then, war broke out and suddenly business was booming in Hollywood, and\u00a0 <\/span>everyone in it enjoyed a nearly four-year renaissance. Then the war ended, and this is where Bancroft\u2019s career really started to pick up steam.<\/p>\n

Bancroft\u2019s first movie role was in Roy Ward Baker\u2019s 1952\u2019s psychological thriller Don\u2019t Bother to Knock<\/em>; after that, she had a string of glamorous supporting roles that won her critical acclaim. Suddenly, Bancroft was a star and there was no stopping her from reaching her full potential as one of Hollywood\u2019s finest actresses. The details the book goes into while covering this make it a must read.<\/p>\n

Another thing that I like about this book is Daniel\u2019s clearly documented research of Bancroft\u2019s career, from her early days to her romantic relationships with lawyer Martin May and Hollywood director and screenwriter Mel Brooks. My favourite part of the book is Daniel\u2019s description of Bancroft\u2019s experience of making what is considered to be one of the best comedies of all time, The Graduate<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the book, Daniel describes an altercation between Bancroft and the film\u2019s director, Mike Nichols. According to Daniel, the fight was about the now iconic \u201cMrs. Robinson, you\u2019re trying to seduce me\u201d scene. The script required Bancroft to wear nothing but a bra and a slip throughout the majority of the scene. The problem with this is Bancroft had always felt uncomfortable revealing any part of her body, so she protested this, and Nichols was forced to hire a double for the shots where the script required Bancroft\u2019s character to be naked. It\u2019s details like this that really makes the book interesting.<\/p>\n

When it all comes down to it, Anne Bancroft: A Life<\/i> is a great read for film lovers and will leave readers with plenty of new information that they will cherish long after the book\u2019s concluding sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a movie fan and an aspiring filmmaker, I love reading books about old Hollywood. The main thing that makes Anne Bancroft: A Life, Douglass K. Daniel\u2019s beautifully written new biography on the life of legendary actress Anne Bancroft, so fascinating is everything the reader learns about Bancroft and old Hollywood as a whole.\u00a0 What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22435,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22430\/revisions\/22435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}