Anne Bancroft was born on September 17, 1931 in the Bronx, the daughter of Michael Italiano (1905-2001), a dress pattern maker, and Mildred DiNapoli (1908-2010), a telephone operator. She made her cinema debut in Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) in 1952 and over the next five years appeared in a lot of undistinguished movies as …
