Anne Bancroft was in a film.
Agnes of God is a 1985 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison , written by John Pielmeier based on his play of the same name , and starring Jane Fonda , Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly , about a novice nun who gives birth and insists that the dead child was the result of a virgin conception . Anne Bancroft . She played a ballet dancer in The Turning Point ( 1977 ) , and in Agnes of God ( 1985 ) , she played the mother superior of a convent who clashes with a psychiatrist played by Jane Fonda over dealings with a troubled young novice nun played by Meg Tilly . She appeared in several movies directed or produced by her second husband , comedian Mel Brooks , including the award-winning drama The Elephant Man as well as comedies To Be or Not to Be and Dracula : Dead and Loving It . The Elephant Man (film) . The film was directed by David Lynch and stars John Hurt , Anthony Hopkins , Anne Bancroft , John Gielgud , Wendy Hiller , Michael Elphick , Hannah Gordon and Freddie Jones . The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003 film) . The film stars Helen Mirren , Olivier Martinez , Anne Bancroft and Brian Dennehy with Rodrigo Santoro , Victor Alfieri and Suzanne Bertish : it follows the odessey of Karen Stone , an actress who loses her husband to a heart attack .