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Maybe she'll be awarded an Oscar maybe not;
in any case, she's already victor in a far more important ordeal
IF things go on schedule a week from Mon
day, Anne Bancroft will be shucking off a
coarse woollen shawl and tossing her peddler's
sack in a corner about the time the "Best Ac
tress of the Year" award is made at the annual
Academy Awards in Hollywood.
Anne will have just finished her performance in one of
Broadway's most challenging parts, the title role in Bertolt
Brecht's "Mother Courage and He Children," and in her
basement dressing room in the Martin Beck Theater she
may hear the news that she is 1963's Oscar winner.
There is a possibility there will be a little sulfur to spice
the usual sentimentality if Anne is selected by the Acad
emy for her performance as Annie Sullivan in "The Mir
acle Worker." It was from Hollywood in 1957 that Anne,
after seven years and 16 films in tinsel town, phoned her
mother in the Bronx, N. Y., that she was coming home.
Things were sickeningly wrong, professionally and per
sonally. She was getting parts from squaw to ape woman,
and each seemed more degrading than the last.
"In the first years in Hollywood," she says, "I thought
I was great. I didn't know any better. Then I did a tele
vision show for director Robert Penn, and I realized that
acting is more than just runaway feeling it's thinking
and discipline. My bubble popped. I knew what I was as an
actress a nothing."
Her personal life popped, too. When she arrived in
Hollywood at 19, Anne was fresh from the close-knit,
protective immigrant family of Mike and Mildred Italiano.
On the Coast, she lived first with the family of her per
sonal agent; then Hollywood took over, and she rapidly
progressed from bachelor girl to gossip-column madcap to
wife of a young Texas oil heir, Martin A. May. After two
years she still hadn't gotten around to furnishing a simple
apartment "too many other things came up." After three
years. May was telling a divorce court:
"She worked from 4 a.m. to 6 p.m. She came home and
couldn't talk. Once she wouldn't talk to me for three weeks.
There was a lack of companionship with millions of people
tracking into the house. She tried to combine two loves
one a marriage and the other a career. The career turned
out to be the greater of the two."
Anne tried to laugh off the break. "The only men in my
life from now on will be my father, my agent, and my psy
chiatrist," she said. Instead, there were more men and
more "B" films. Each picture and each man got worse.
Family Wrrkly, Marrk It. IU
What had gone wrong? Possibly it was the familiar "too
easy, too soon." As a teen-ager, Anne Marie Italiano was
shy personally yet extroverted in performing; she was
boy-crazy yet was refused dating privileges. Her outlets
were Sunday matinees and the fluff of fan magazines.
Her ambition was to be a laboratory technician. "Acting
was something to dream of, but unattainable," she says.
"But just before graduation, a boy I had a crush on held
my hand in assembly and told me he was enrolling in the
Academy of Dramatic Arts. I rushed home and told my
mother I wanted to be an actress. My mother gave me
the tuition we'd saved for lab school. Funny, that boy never
did enroll."
At acting school she didn't have enough money for
lunch and was rehearsing one noon when the wife of
a television producer spied her. That encounter led to 80
tv roles. Subsequently, a friend asked her to appear opposite
him in a screen test. He missed, but Anne got a contract.
Still, acting was a foreign word to her; if anything, she
defined it as good money, excitement, and famous people.
In 1957 came the nightmarish self-appraisal.
"I had told mother I was quitting," she says, "but I had
told myself I'd take one more chance. I'd had a taste of
what real acting was and wanted more. I decided to go to
an expert If he said I didn't have it, then I'd quit."
ACTING COACH Herbert Berghof's decision was unquali
Xi. fied : "You must stay in the theater." She did and won
Antoinette Perry (Tony) awards for "Two for the Seesaw"
and "The Miracle Worker."
The personal reappraisal is more difficult to evaluate.
A frugal woman, Anne just bought a $96,000 brownstone
apartment building in Greenwich Village "because I got
tired of paying exorbitant New York rents." Her romances
have been lengthy, but no marriage is in sight. Does she
believe bachelor life best for an actress?
"It's not best for any woman," she replies. "I will marry,
but certainly my husband has to understand that some
times I muat work from 4 a.m. to 6 p.m. but not always."
Are there such men?
"There better be. But I've learned enough to make things
work, too. Acting and my personal life are too tied up to
gether not to influence each other. Acting has taught me
discipline and how to think. It has taught me that I have
a lot to give, too."
It's obvious that she means personally aa well as profes
sionally. And it's equally obvious that her new confidence
in herself as an actress extends to herself as a woman.