Anne Bancroft starred in a dramatic production.
84 Charing Cross Road is a 1987 British-American drama film directed by David Jones . Anne Bancroft . She was perhaps best known as the seductress , Mrs. Robinson , in The Graduate ( 1967 ) , 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 . The Turning Point is a 1977 American drama film centered on the world of ballet in New York City , written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross .