Anne Bancroft starred in a dramatic production.
She was perhaps best known as the seductress , Mrs. Robinson , in The Graduate -LRB- 1967 -RRB- , a role that she later stated had come to overshadow her other work.
The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry , based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Webb , who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College.
