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Mel Brooks: b/w Portrait Photo Mel Brooks and his wife Anne Bancroft.
Hand-signed by Ann Bancroft and Mel Brooks.
8 x 10 inches, fine condition.
Melvin "Mel" Kaminsky better known by his stage name Mel Brooks, is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor, and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony award. Three of his films ranked in the Top 20 on the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 comedy films of all-time.
Anne Bancroft (1931 –2005) was an American actress associated with the Method acting school, after studying it under Lee Strasberg.
She made her film debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) with Marilyn Monroe and worked as a contract player in several films before returning to her native New York and appearing in several Broadway plays. She later won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Miracle Worker (1962), and received subsequent nominations for her roles in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Graduate (1967), The Turning Point (1977) and Agnes of God (1985).
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