Angela Lansbury death

Lansbury's acting career extended over an extraordinary seven decades. She says she knew early on that she'd never be "groomed to be a glamorous movie star" ...

"Being Jessica was second nature to me because she embodied all of the qualities that I like about women," Lansbury said. She told Fresh Air's Terry Gross that she was "happily trapped" in the role of Jessica Fletcher, the mystery novelist who solved a murder every week. That way of acting a song served Lansbury very well when she starred as Mama Rose in the 1974 revival of Gypsy, and as the cold-blooded Mrs. "And, lo and behold, when she walked down that staircase in gold-lamé pajamas, in 1966, she was 40 years old and Broadway embraced her in a way that it has embraced few actresses in its storied history." Lansbury got the acting bug as a teenager, playing Audrey in a student production of As You Like It. Angela Lansbury was destined to become an actress; born in London, England in 1925, her mother was a leading lady of the British stage.

Angela Lansbury, who crooned as a teapot in Beauty and the Beast and solved mysteries as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, died October 11 at the age ...

Lansbury’s Mame won her the Tony—her first of five—and became so beloved she would return to the part more than a decade later in a revival. While MGM served as her training ground, she was frustrated by the limitations of the opportunities it provided. [was out for tea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTWIz8kxtKE) with her mother, she met the actor Michael Dyne, who was planning to audition for an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Her father died when she was 9; and six years later, her mother picked up and moved her family to North America, as London was reeling from the Blitz. Later in her career, the actress became a sort of granny-for-all in such films as Mary Poppins Returns and Nanny McPhee, but the extent of her talent could also be measured by the menace she could hide behind her wide-set eyes. Angela Lansbury, who crooned as a teapot in Beauty and the Beast and solved mysteries as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, died October 11 at the age of 96, just days shy of her 97th birthday, her family has confirmed.

Actress Angela Lansbury, whose 75-year career encompassed triumphs on the big screen, in musical theater and on television, died on Tuesday. She was 96.

She reprised the role in a direct-to-video “Beauty” sequel and a video game. Lansbury’s indelible work in “The Manchurian Candidate” bolstered her somewhat dormant rep as one of Hollywood’s most versatile performers. She made memorable appearances in such ‘50s dramas as “The Long, Hot Summer” (1958) and “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.” During her pact at the studio, she was loaned out to Paramount for the melodrama “The Private Affairs of Bel Ami,” which reunited her with “Dorian Gray” director Arthur Lewis, and Cecil B. Her instant success in “Gaslight,” which won her a best supporting actress Golden Globe, led to her MGM contract. Potts in the animated smash “ After the onset of the Nazi Blitz, Lansbury’s mother moved her and her younger brothers to the U.S. Queen Elizabeth II appointed her a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2014. Two years later, she took the title role in “Mame,” the musical adaptation (by Jerry Herman, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. In 1964, she appeared in Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’ “Anyone Can Whistle.” The tuner was a quick flop, lasting only nine performances, but it would be the last time she would fail on the Great White Way. (It was a hit 1958 movie vehicle for Rosalind Russell.) Lansbury appeared in the long-running smash for nearly two years, taking just a two-week break, and she notched a Tony Award as best actress in a musical. In 1984 she stepped into a role originally offered to Jean Stapleton: the flinty crime-solving mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher on CBS’ “Murder, She Wrote.” The show became appointment TV for its fans on Sunday nights, and ran for 12 highly rated seasons.

She also excelled as the world's most evil mother in the film “The Manchurian Candidate.”

By Elsa Maishman · Dame Angela Lansbury, who won international acclaim as the star of the US TV crime series Murder, She Wrote, has died aged 96. · The three-time Oscar nominee had a career spanning eight decades, across film, theatre and television.

Angela Lansbury was that artist." She earned Oscar nominations for her role as the maid in Gaslight, and as Sibyl in The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1945, and Laurence Harvey's manipulative mother in The Manchurian Candidate in 1962. The show made her one of the wealthiest women in the US at the time, with a fortune estimated at $100m. She was noticed by a Hollywood executive at a party in 1942, and given her first role as a maid in the 1944 film Gaslight. "The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles," the family said. Born in 1925, she was one of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.