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Angela Lansbury

British and American actress (1925–2022)

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was a British, Irish and American actress. In a career spanning 80 years, she played various roles across film, stage, and television. Although based for much of her life in the United States, her work attracted international attention.

Lansbury was born into an upper-middle-class family in central London, the daughter of Irish actress Moyna Macgill and English politician Edgar Lansbury. To escape the Blitz, she moved to the United States in 1940, studying acting in New York City. Proceeding to Hollywood in 1942, she signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and obtained her first film roles, in Gaslight (1944), National Velvet (1944), and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). She appeared in 11 further MGM films, mostly in minor roles, and after her contract ended in 1952, she began to supplement her cinematic work with theatrical appearances. Lansbury was largely seen as a B-list star during this period, but her role in The Manchurian Candidate (196

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Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury

February 8, 2025

I was gifted this book at the end of the last century by one of my theater-going buddies, but never got around to reading it until now.
Angela Lansbury was one of the great stars of late 20th Century Broadway, and I enjoyed reading about her biggest star turns, in "Mame" and then as Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd."
Much of the great lady's movie career is told here as a series of disappointing roles, where she was cast as much older, bitchier women even when she was in her lovely twenties, and never in leading roles. Hollywood, says critic and author Martin Gottfried, never knew quite what to do with her.
I learned a heap about Lansbury's youth and family, including her actress mother Moyna and sister Izzy, her brothers, who became notable TV and theater producers, and the private life she tried to maintain while traveling and working. I also learned about her career choices as she moved into middle age, when she and her husband/agent, Peter Shaw, often chose projects with a goal of exposure and financi

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Angela
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One of the most remarkable icons of Hollywood’s vintage Golden Age, Angela Lansbury still works every day. At the age of 86, she’s an inadvertent role model for how to live one’s later years with absolute imagination and style.

Her whole life is one of amazing accolades, from her first Oscar nomination at the age of 19 to her status as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, her homeland, since 1994. In fact, Angela is so fabulous, she’s honoured with not just one but two stars on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. And while her charming New York apartment may be a modest affair, her staggering career – encompassing highlights from The Manchurian Candidate to Murder, She Wrote – has been anything but.

It was never about her looks. While other actresses were paid to let the camera linger over the play of light and shadow on their faces, Angela Lansbury was signed as Ingrid Bergman’s maid or the sister of Elizabeth Taylor or Hedy Lamarr. The heroine, the siren, the ingénue who gets the guy was always somebody else.

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