Angela Lansbury has had quite the career, conquering both stage and screen (big and small) in her sixty-plus years in show business. And she did it with a mug that, while not typically glamorous, sure was interesting. Not to mention a voice that was equally unique.Lansbury hit the ball out of the park with her first film, Gaslight, netting her first of three Oscar nominations. She would alternate roles between "loose women" meant to make the leading lady look better (The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Harvey Girls) to the star's eccentric sister or mother (National Velvet, Blue Hawaii) until she shocked everyone with her manipulative mother from hell in The Manchurian Candidate.
Broadway was next, with her Tony Award-winning turns in Mame, Gypsy and Sweeney Todd (Helena Bonham Carter has huge shoes to fill in the upcoming movie version). Musicals continued to dominate her filmography as well, such as the Disney favorites Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Beauty and the Beast, but it was her long-running television series Murder, She Wrote that cemented her status as pop culture icon.
From Mrs. John Iselin to Mrs. Potts to Mrs. Lovett to Miss Jessica Fletcher: what a range. And that is why we love Miss Angela Lansbury.
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