Anne Bancroft
…in 2005, at the age of 73, as a result of uterine cancer. She was married to director, actor, and writer Mel Brooks, with whom she had a son, author Max Brooks. Bancroft was born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano on September 17, 1931, in the Bronx, New York, the middle of three daughters of Mildred Carmela (née Di…