Requiem in Pace

The news of Anne Bancroft's death leaves me sad for her suffering (she died of uterine cancer) and for her family's loss, but most of all at the thought that we'll never see a her in a new role on any screen large or small. Most people remembering her will talk about Mrs. Robinson and The Graduate in the coming hours, but my two favorite roles of hers were Gilbert's mother in Garbo Talks and Mrs. Cage, a one-act that appeared on PBS and isn't yet out on video (and may never be). I hope TCM will soon schedule a tribute to her; that'd be a marathon worth watching.