It's Anne Bancroft's birthday, as she turns 80 today. Bancroft, one of our finest actresses over the past 50 years or so, was most famous for her great turn as Mrs. Robinson in Mike Nichols' The Graduate (1967), which was probably the first "adult" movie I saw when I was a kid. (She's also been Mrs. Mel Brooks for a long time, which marks her down as a good egg in my book.) Anyway, here she is as Mrs. Robinson with, of course, Dustin Hoffman, in the movie's famous seduction scene:
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