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Angela Lansbury

January 13, 2023

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was an Irish-British and American actress and singer. In a career spanning eight decades, 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 as well as a large number of awards.

Dame

Angela Lansbury

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Lansbury in 1950
Born
Angela Brigid Lansbury

(1925-10-16)October 16, 1925
Regent's Park, London, England
DiedOctober 11, 2022(2022-10-11) (aged 96)
Los Angeles, California, US
Resting placeWestwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • United States (from 1951)
  • Ireland (from c. 1970)
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
Years active1942–2022
Notable workFull list
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Lansbury was born to 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 to MGM and obtained her first film roles, in Gaslight (1944), National Velvet (1944), and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), earning various awards. 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, however her role in the film The Manchurian Candidate (1962) received widespread acclaim and is frequently cited as one of her best performances. Moving into musical theatre, Lansbury gained stardom for playing the leading role in the Broadway musical Mame (1966), winning her first Tony Award and becoming a gay icon.

Amidst difficulties in her personal life, Lansbury moved from California to Ireland's County Cork in 1970. She continued to make theatrical and cinematic appearances throughout that decade, including leading roles in the stage musicals Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, and The King and I, as well as in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). Moving into television in 1984, she achieved worldwide fame as the fictional sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the American whodunit series Murder, She Wrote, which ran for twelve seasons until 1996, becoming one of the longest-running and most popular detective drama series in television history. Through Corymore Productions, a company that she co-owned with her husband Peter Shaw, Lansbury assumed ownership of the series and was its executive producer during its final four seasons. She also moved into voice work, contributing to animated films like Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Anastasia (1997). In the 21st century, she toured in several theatrical productions and appeared in family films such as Nanny McPhee (2005) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).

At the time of her death, Lansbury was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Among her numerous accolades were six Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award), six Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and the Academy Honorary Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, eighteen Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award.

Early life and career beginnings

See also: Angela Lansbury on screen and stage

Childhood: 1925–1942

Angela Brigid Lansbury was born to an upper middle class family on October 16, 1925.[1] Although her birthplace has often been given as Poplar, East London,[2] she has rejected this, stating that while she had ancestral connections to Poplar, she was born in Regent's Park, Central London.[a] Her mother was Belfast-born Irish Moyna Macgill (born Charlotte Lillian McIldowie), an actress who regularly appeared on stage in London's West End and who also appeared in several films.[4] Her father was the wealthy English timber merchant and politician Edgar Lansbury, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and former mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.[5] Her paternal grandfather was the Labour Party leader George Lansbury, a man whom she felt "awed" by and considered "a giant in my youth".[6] Angela had an older half sister, Isolde, who was the offspring of Macgill's previous marriage to Reginald Denham.[7] In January 1930, Macgill gave birth to twin boys, Bruce and Edgar, leading the Lansburys to move from their Poplar flat to a house in Mill Hill, North London; on weekends, they would vacate to a rural farm in Berrick Salome, Oxfordshire.[8]

I'm eternally grateful for the Irish side of me. That's where I got my sense of comedy and whimsy. As for the English half–that's my reserved side ... But put me onstage, and the Irish comes out. The combination makes a good mix for acting.

 – Angela Lansbury.[9]

When Lansbury was nine, her father died from stomach cancer; she retreated into playing characters as a coping mechanism.[10] Facing financial difficulty, her mother became engaged to a Scottish colonel, Leckie Forbes, and moved into his house in Hampstead, with Lansbury receiving an education at South Hampstead High School from 1934 until 1939,[11] where she was two years below actress Glynis Johns.[12] She nevertheless considered herself largely self-educated, learning from books, theatre and cinema.[13] She became a self-professed "complete movie maniac", visiting the cinema regularly.[14] Keen on playing the piano, she briefly studied music at the Ritman School of Dancing, and in 1940 began studying acting at the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art in Kensington, West London, first appearing onstage as a lady-in-waiting in the school's production of Maxwell Anderson's Mary of Scotland.[15]

That year, Angela's grandfather died, and with the onset of the Blitz, Macgill decided to take Angela, Bruce and Edgar to the United States; Isolde remained in Britain with her new husband, the actor Peter Ustinov. Macgill secured a job supervising 60 British children who were being evacuated to North America aboard the Duchess of Athol, arriving with them in Montreal, Canada, in August 1940.[16] She then proceeded by train to New York City, where she was financially sponsored by a Wall Street businessman, Charles T. Smith, moving in with his family at their home at Mahopac, New York.[17] Lansbury gained a scholarship from the American Theatre Wing to study at the Feagin School of Drama and Radio, where she appeared in performances of William Congreve's The Way of the World and Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan. She graduated in March 1942, by which time the family had moved to a flat in Morton Street, Greenwich Village.[18]

Career breakthrough: 1942–1945

Macgill secured work in a Canadian touring production of Tonight at 8:30, and was joined by her daughter. There, Lansbury gained her first theatrical job as a nightclub act at the Samovar Club, Montreal, singing songs by Noël Coward. Although 16 years old, she claimed to be 19 to secure the job.[19] Lansbury returned to New York City in August 1942, but her mother had moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, to resurrect her cinematic career; Lansbury and her brothers followed.[20] Moving into a bungalow in Laurel Canyon, both Lansbury and her mother obtained Christmas jobs at the Bullocks Wilshire department store in Los Angeles; Macgill was sacked for incompetence, leaving the family to subsist on Lansbury's wages of $28 a week.[21] Befriending a group of gay men, Lansbury became privy to the city's underground gay scene.[22] With her mother, she attended lectures by the spiritual guru Jiddu Krishnamurtif, at one of these meeting the writer Aldous Huxley.[22]

 
Lansbury in the trailer for The Picture of Dorian Gray

At a party hosted by her mother, Lansbury met John van Druten, who had recently co-authored a script for Gaslight (1944), a mystery-thriller based on Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play, Gas Light. The film was being directed by George Cukor and starred Ingrid Bergman in the lead role of Paula Alquist, a woman in Victorian London being psychologically tormented by her husband. Druten suggested that Lansbury would be perfect for the role of Nancy Oliver, a cockney maid; she was accepted for the part, although, since she was only 17, a social worker had to accompany her on the set.[23] Obtaining an agent, Earl Kramer, she was signed to a seven-year contract with MGM, earning $500 a week. Although in her personal life she was widely known by her second name, "Brigid," she adopted "Angela Lansbury" as her stage name.[24] Gaslight received mixed critical reviews, although Lansbury's role was widely praised; the film earned six Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Supporting Actress for Lansbury.[25]

Her next film appearance was as Edwina Brown in National Velvet (1944); the film became a major commercial hit and Lansbury developed a lifelong friendship with co-star Elizabeth Taylor.[26] Lansbury next starred in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), a cinematic adaptation of Wilde's 1890 novel of the same name, which was again set in Victorian London. Directed by Albert Lewin, Lansbury was cast as Sybil Vane, a working class music hall singer who falls in love with the protagonist, Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield). Although the film was not a financial success, Lansbury's performance once more drew praise, earning her a Golden Globe Award, and she was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards, losing to Anne Revere, her co-star in National Velvet.[27]

Later MGM films: 1945–1951

On September 27, 1945, Lansbury married Richard Cromwell, an artist and decorator whose acting career had come to a standstill. Their marriage was troubled; Cromwell was gay, and had married Lansbury in the unsuccessful hope that it would turn him heterosexual. Lansbury filed for divorce within a year, it being granted on September 11, 1946, but they remained friends until his death.[28] In December 1946, she was introduced to fellow English expatriate Peter Pullen Shaw at a party held by former co-star Hurd Hatfield in Ojai Valley. Shaw was an aspiring actor, also signed to MGM, and had recently left a relationship with Joan Crawford. He and Lansbury became a couple, living together before she proposed marriage.[29] They wanted a wedding in Britain, but the Church of England refused to marry two divorcees. Instead, they wed at St. Columba's Church, a place of worship under the jurisdiction of the Church of Scotland, in Knightsbridge, London, in August 1949, followed by a honeymoon in France.[30] Returning to the U.S., they settled into Lansbury's home in Rustic Canyon, Malibu.[31] In 1951, the couple both became naturalized U.S. citizens, albeit retaining their British citizenship via dual nationality.[32]

 
Lansbury in a scene from MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), one of her earliest film appearances

Following the success of Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray, MGM cast Lansbury in 11 further films until her contract with the company ended in 1952. Keeping her among their B-list stars, MGM used her less than their similar-aged actresses; Lansbury biographers Rob Edelman and Audrey E. Kupferberg believed that the majority of these films were "mediocre", doing little to further her career.[33] This view was echoed by Cukor, who believed Lansbury had been "consistently miscast" by MGM.[34] She was repeatedly made to portray older women, often villainous, and as a result became increasingly dissatisfied with working for MGM, commenting that "I kept wanting to play the Jean Arthur roles, and Mr Mayer kept casting me as a series of venal bitches."[35] The company was suffering from the post-1948 slump in cinema sales, as a result slashing film budgets and cutting their number of staff.[35]

In 1946, Lansbury played her first American character as Em, a honky-tonk saloon singer in the Oscar-winning Wild West musical The Harvey Girls;[36] her singing was dubbed by Virginia Reese.[37] She appeared in The Hoodlum Saint (1946), Till the Clouds Roll By (1947), If Winter Comes (1947), Tenth Avenue Angel (1948), The Three Musketeers (1948), State of the Union (1948) and The Red Danube (1949). She was loaned by MGM first to United Artists for The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947), and then to Paramount for Samson and Delilah (1949).[38] She appeared as a villainous maidservant in Kind Lady (1951) and a French adventuress in Mutiny (1952).[39] Turning to radio, in 1948, she appeared in an audio adaptation of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage for NBC University Theatre and the following year, she starred in their adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.[40] Moving into television, she appeared in a 1950 episode of Robert Montgomery Presents adapted from A.J. Cronin's The Citadel.[41]

Mid career

The Manchurian Candidate and minor roles: 1952–1965

 
Lansbury with her children in 1957

Unhappy with the roles she was being given by MGM, Lansbury instructed her manager, Harry Friedman of MCA Inc., to terminate her contract in 1952.[42] She was pregnant with Shaw's child, and that year her son Anthony was born.[43] Soon after the birth, she joined the East Coast touring productions of two former-Broadway plays: Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's Remains to be Seen and Louis Verneuil's Affairs of State.[44] Biographer Margaret Bonanno later stated that at this point, Lansbury's career had "hit an all-time low".[45] In April 1953, her daughter Deirdre Angela Shaw was born.[46] Shaw had a son by a previous marriage, David, whom he brought to California to live with the family after he gained legal custody of the boy in 1953. Now with three children to care for, Lansbury moved to a larger house in San Vicente Boulevard in Santa Monica.[47] Lansbury did not feel entirely comfortable in the Hollywood social scene, later commenting that as a result of her British roots, "in Hollywood, I always felt like a stranger in a strange land."[48] In 1959, the family moved to Malibu, settling into a house on the Pacific Coast Highway that had been designed by Aaron Green; there, she and Peter escaped the Hollywood scene, and sent their children to state school.[49]

Returning to cinema as a freelance actress, Lansbury found herself typecast as an older, maternal figure, appearing in this capacity in most of her films from this period.[50] She later stated that "Hollywood made me old before my time", noting that in her twenties she was receiving fan mail from people who thought her in her forties.[51] She obtained minor roles in such films as A Life at Stake (1954), A Lawless Street (1955) and The Purple Mask (1955), later describing the latter as "the worst movie I ever made."[52] She played Princess Gwendolyn in the comedy film The Court Jester (1956), before taking on the role of a wife who kills her husband in Please Murder Me (1956). From there she appeared as Minnie Littlejohn in The Long Hot Summer (1958), and as Mabel Claremont in The Reluctant Debutante (1958), for which she filmed in Paris.[53] Biographer Martin Gottfried has claimed that it was these latter two cinematic appearances which restored Lansbury's status as an "A-picture actress."[54] Throughout this period, she continued making television appearances, starring in episodes of The Revlon Mirror Theater, Ford Theatre and The George Gobel Show, and became a regular on game show Pantomime Quiz.[55]

 
Lansbury in a publicity shot from 1966

In April 1957, she debuted on Broadway at the Henry Miller Theatre in Hotel Paradiso, a French burlesque directed by Peter Glenville. The play only ran for 15 weeks, although she earned good reviews for her role as Marcel Cat. She later stated that had she not appeared in the play, her "whole career would have fizzled out."[56] Into the 1960s, she followed this with an appearance in a Broadway performance of A Taste of Honey at the Lyceum Theatre, directed by Tony Richardson and George Devine. Lansbury played Helen, the boorish, verbally abusive mother of Josephine (played by Joan Plowright, only four years Lansbury's junior), remarking that she gained "a great deal of satisfaction" from the role.[57] During the show's run, Lansbury developed a friendship with both Plowright and Plowright's lover Laurence Olivier; it was from Lansbury's rented flat on East 97th Street that Plowright and Olivier eloped to be married.[58]

After a well-reviewed appearance in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959) – for which she had filmed in the Australian Outback – and a minor role in A Breath of Scandal (1960), Lansbury appeared in 1961's Blue Hawaii as the mother of a character played by Elvis Presley.[59] Although believing that the film was of poor quality, she commented that she agreed to appear in it because she "was desperate".[60] Her role as Mavis in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) drew critical acclaim, as did her appearance in All Fall Down (1962) as a manipulative, destructive mother.[61] In 1962, she appeared in the Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate as Eleanor Iselin, cast for the role by John Frankenheimer. Although Lansbury played actor Laurence Harvey's mother in the film, she was in fact only three years older than him.[62] She had agreed to appear in the film after reading the original novel, describing it as "one of the most exciting political books I ever read".[63] Biographers Edelman and Kupferberg considered this role "her enduring cinematic triumph,"[64] while Gottfried stated that it was "the strongest, the most memorable and the best picture she ever made... she gives her finest film performance in it."[65] Lansbury received her third Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination for the film.[66]

She followed this with a performance as Sybil Logan in In the Cool of the Day (1963) – a film she renounced as awful – before appearing as wealthy Isabel Boyd in The World of Henry Orient (1964) and the widow Phyllis in Dear Heart (1964).[67] Her first appearance in a theatrical musical was the short-lived Anyone Can Whistle, written by Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim. An experimental work, it opened at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway in April 1964, but was critically panned and closed after nine performances. Lansbury had played the role of crooked mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper, and although she loved Sondheim's score she experienced personal differences with Laurents and was glad when the show closed.[68] She appeared in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), a cinematic biopic of Jesus, but was cut almost entirely from the final edit.[69] She followed this with appearances as Mama Jean Bello in Harlow (1965), as Lady Blystone in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965), and as Gloria in Mister Buddwing (1966).[70] Although many of her cinematic roles had been well received, "celluloid superstardom" evaded Lansbury, and she became increasingly dissatisfied with these minor roles, feeling that none allowed her to explore her potential as an actress.[71]

Mame and theatrical stardom: 1966–1969

I was a wife and a mother, and I was completely fulfilled. But my husband recognised the signals in me which said 'I've been doing enough gardening, I've cooked enough good dinners, I've sat around the house and mooned about what more interior decoration I can get my fingers into.' It's a curious thing with actors and actresses, but suddenly the alarm goes off. My husband is a very sensitive person to my moods and he recognised the fact that I had to get on with something. Mame came along out of the blue just at this time. Now isn't that a miracle?.

 – Angela Lansbury.[72]

In 1966, Lansbury took on the title role of Mame Dennis in the musical Mame, Jerry Herman's musical adaptation of the 1955 novel Auntie Mame. The director's first choice for the role had been Rosalind Russell, who played Mame in the 1958 non-musical film adaptation, but she had declined. Lansbury actively sought the role in the hope that it would mark a change in her career. When she was chosen, it came as a surprise to theatre critics, who believed that the part would go to a better-known actress; Lansbury was 41 years old, and it was her first starring role.[73] Mame Dennis was a glamorous character, with over 20 costume changes throughout the play, and Lansbury's role involved ten songs and dance routines for which she trained extensively.[74] First appearing in Philadelphia and then Boston, Mame opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in May 1966.[75] Auntie Mame was already popular among the gay community,[76] and Mame gained Lansbury a cult gay following, something that she later attributed to the fact that Mame Dennis was "every gay person's idea of glamour... Everything about Mame coincided with every young man's idea of beauty and glory and it was lovely."[77]

Reviews of Lansbury's performance were overwhelmingly positive.[78] In The New York Times, Stanley Kauffmann wrote: "Miss Lansbury is a singing-dancing actress, not a singer or dancer who also acts... In this marathon role she has wit, poise, warmth and a very taking coolth."[79] The role resulted in Lansbury receiving her first Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical,[80] as well as the Antoinette Perry Award.[81] Lansbury's later biographer Margaret Bonanno claimed that Mame made Lansbury a "superstar",[82] with the actress herself commenting on her success: "Everyone loves you, everyone loves the success, and enjoys it as much as you do. And it lasts as long as you are on that stage and as long as you keep coming out of that stage door."[83]

Off the stage, Lansbury made further television appearances, such as on Perry Como's Thanksgiving Special in November 1966.[84] She also engaged in high-profile charitable endeavours, for instance appearing as the guest of honour at the 1967 March of Dimes annual benefit luncheon.[84] She was invited to star in a musical performance for the 1968 Academy Awards ceremony, and co-hosted that year's Tony Awards with former brother-in-law Peter Ustinov.[85] That year, Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Club elected her "Woman of the Year".[86] When the film adaptation of Mame was put into production, Lansbury hoped to be offered the part, but it instead went to Lucille Ball, an established box-office success.[87] Lansbury considered this to be "one of my bitterest disappointments".[88] Her personal life was further complicated when she learned that both of her children had become involved with the counterculture of the 1960s and had been using recreational drugs; as a result, Anthony had become addicted to cocaine and heroin.[89]

Lansbury followed the success of Mame with a performance as Countess Aurelia, the 75-year-old Parisian eccentric in Dear World, a musical adaptation of Jean Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot. The show opened at Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theatre in February 1969, but Lansbury found it a "pretty depressing" experience. Reviews of her performance were positive, and she was awarded her second Tony Award on the basis of it. Reviews of the show more generally were critical, however, and it ended after 132 performances.[90] She followed this with an appearance in the title role of the musical Prettybelle, based upon Jean Arnold's Prettybelle: A Lively Tale of Rape and Resurrection. Set in the Deep South, it dealt with issues of racism, with Lansbury playing a wealthy alcoholic who seeks sexual encounters with black men. The play opened in Boston, but received poor reviews and was cancelled before it reached Broadway.[91] Lansbury later described the play as "a complete and utter fiasco", admitting that in her opinion, her "performance was awful".[92]

Ireland and Gypsy: 1970–1978

In the early 1970s, Lansbury declined several cinematic roles, including the lead in The Killing of Sister George and the role of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.[93] Instead, she accepted the role of the Countess von Ornstein, an ageing German aristocrat who falls in love with a younger man, in Something for Everyone (1970), for which she filmed on location in Hohenschwangen, Bavaria.[94] That same year, she appeared as the middle-aged English witch Eglentine Price in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks; this was her first lead in a screen musical, and led to her publicizing the film on television programmes like the David Frost Show.[95] She later noted that as a big commercial hit, this film "secured an enormous audience for me".[96]

1970 was a traumatic year for the Lansbury family, as Peter underwent a hip replacement, Anthony suffered a heroin overdose and entered a coma, and the family's Malibu home was destroyed in a brush fire.[97] They then purchased Knockmourne Glebe, a farmhouse built in the 1820s which was located near Conna in rural County Cork, and, after Anthony quit using cocaine and heroin, took him there to recover from his drug addiction.[98] He subsequently enrolled in the Webber-Douglas School, his mother's alma mater, and became a professional actor, before moving into television directing.[99] Lansbury and her husband did not return to California, instead dividing their time between Cork and New York City, where they lived in a flat opposite the Lincoln Center.[100]

[In Ireland, our gardener] had no idea who I was. Nobody there did. I was just Mrs. Shaw, which suited me down to the ground. I had absolute anonymity in those days, which was wonderful.

 – Angela Lansbury.[101]

In 1972, Lansbury returned to London's West End to perform in the Royal Shakespeare Company's theatrical production of Edward Albee's All Over at the Aldwych Theatre. She portrayed the mistress of a dying New England millionaire, and although the play's reviews were mixed, Lansbury's acting was widely praised.[102] This was followed by her reluctant involvement in a revival of Mame, which was then touring the United States,[103] after which she returned to the West End to play the character of Rose in the musical Gypsy. She had initially turned down the role, not wishing to be in the shadow of Ethel Merman, who had portrayed the character in the original Broadway production, but eventually accepted it; when the show started in May 1973, she earned a standing ovation and rave reviews.[104] Settling into a Belgravia flat, she was soon in demand among London society, having dinners held in her honour.[105] Following the culmination of the London run, in 1974 Gypsy toured the U.S.; in Chicago, Lansbury was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance. The show eventually reached Broadway, where it ran until January 1975. A critical success, it earned Lansbury her third Tony Award.[106] After several months' break, Gypsy toured the country again in the summer of 1975.[107]

Wanting to move on from musicals, Lansbury obtained the role of Gertrude in the National Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, staged at the Old Vic. Directed by Peter Hall, the production ran from December 1975 to May 1976, receiving mixed reviews; Lansbury disliked the role, later commenting that she found it "very trying playing restrained roles" such as Gertrude.[108] Her mood was worsened by her mother's death in November 1975.[109] Her next theatrical appearance was in two one-act plays by Albee, Counting the Ways and Listening, performed side by side at the Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut. Reviews of the production were mixed, although Lansbury was again singled out for praise.[110] This was followed by another revival tour of Gypsy.[111] In April 1978, Lansbury appeared in 24 performances of a revival of The King and I musical staged at Broadway's Uris Theatre; Lansbury played the role of Mrs Anna, replacing Constance Towers, who was on a short break.[112] Her first cinematic role in seven years was as novelist Salome Otterbourne in a 1978 adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, filmed in both London and Egypt. In the film, Lansbury starred alongside Ustinov and Bette Davis, who became a close friend. The role earned Lansbury the National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actress of 1978.[113]

Sweeney Todd and continued cinematic work: 1979–1984

In March 1979, Lansbury appeared as Nellie Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a Sondheim musical directed by Harold Prince. Opening at the Uris Theatre, she starred alongside Len Cariou as Sweeney Todd, the murderous barber in 19th-century London. After being offered the role, she jumped on the opportunity due to Sondheim's involvement, commenting that she loved "the extraordinary wit and intelligence of his lyrics."[114] She remained in the role for 14 months before being replaced by Dorothy Loudon; the musical received mixed critical reviews, although earned Lansbury her fourth Tony Award and After Dark magazine's Ruby Award for Broadway Performer of the Year.[115] She returned to the role in October 1980 for a ten-month U.S. tour; the production was also filmed and broadcast on the Entertainment Channel.[116]

In 1982, Lansbury took on the role of an upper middle-class housewife who champions workers' rights in A Little Family Business, a farce set in Baltimore in which her son Anthony also starred. It debuted at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre before moving to Broadway's Martin Beck Theatre. It was critically panned and faced protests from California's Japanese-American community for including anti-Japanese slurs.[117] That year, Lansbury was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame,[118] and the following year appeared in a Mame revival at Broadway's Gershwin Theatre. Although Lansbury was praised, the show was a commercial failure, with Lansbury noting: "I realised that it's not a show of today. It's a period piece."[119]

A small number of people have seen me on the stage. [Television] is a chance for me to play to a vast U.S. public, and I think that's a chance you don't pass up... I'm interested in reaching everybody. I don't want to reach just the people who can pay forty-five or fifty dollars for a [theatre] seat.

 – Angela Lansbury.[120]

Working prolifically in cinema, in 1979 Lansbury appeared as Miss Froy in The Lady Vanishes, a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film.[121] The following year she appeared in The Mirror Crack'd, another film based on an Agatha Christie novel, this time as Miss Marple, a sleuth in 1950s Kent. Lansbury hoped to get away from the depiction of the role made famous by Margaret Rutherford, instead returning to Christie's description of the character. She was signed to appear in two sequels as Miss Marple, but these were never made.[122] Lansbury's next film was the animated The Last Unicorn (1982), for which she provided the voice of the witch Mommy Fortuna.[123]

Returning to musical cinema, she starred as Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance (1983), a film based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera of the same name, and while filming it in London sang on a recording of The Beggar's Opera.[124] This was followed by an appearance as the grandmother in Gothic fantasy film The Company of Wolves (1984).[125] Lansbury had also begun work for television, appearing in a 1982 television film with Bette Davis titled Little Gloria... Happy at Last.[126] She followed this with an appearance in CBS's The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983), later describing it as "the most unsophisticated thing you can imagine."[127] A BBC television film followed, A Talent for Murder (1984), in which she played a wheelchair user mystery writer; although describing it as "a rush job", she agreed to do it in order to work with co-star Laurence Olivier.[128] Two further miniseries featuring Lansbury appeared in 1984: Lace and The First Olympics: Athens 1896.[129]

Global fame

Murder, She Wrote: 1984–2003

 
Lansbury with Mame original Broadway cast member Bea Arthur at the 41st Primetime Emmy Awards in 1989.

In 1983, Lansbury was offered two main television roles, one in a sitcom and the other in a detective drama series. As she was unable to do both, her agents advised her to accept the former, although Lansbury chose the latter.[130] The series, Murder, She Wrote, centred on the character of Jessica Fletcher, a retired school teacher from the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine. Fletcher was portrayed as a successful detective novelist who also solved murders encountered during her travels; Lansbury described the character as "an American Miss Marple".[131] The series had been created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson, and William Link, who had earlier had success with Columbo, and the role of Fletcher had been first offered to Jean Stapleton, who had declined it.[132] The pilot episode, "The Murder of Sherlock Holmes", premiered on CBS on September 30, 1984, with the rest of the first season airing on Sundays from 8 to 9 pm. Although critical reviews were mixed, it proved highly popular, with the pilot having a Nielsen rating of 18.9 and the first season being rated top in its time slot.[133] Designed as inoffensive family viewing, despite its topic the show eschewed depicting violence or gore, following the "whodunit" format rather than those of most contemporary U.S. crime shows; Lansbury herself commented that "best of all, there's no violence. I hate violence."[134]

Lansbury exerted creative input over Fletcher's costumes, makeup and hair, and rejected pressure from network executives to put the character in a relationship, believing that the character should remain a strong single female.[135] When she believed that a scriptwriter had made Fletcher do or say things that did not fit with the character's personality, Lansbury ensured that the script was changed.[136] She saw Fletcher as a role model for older female viewers, praising her "enormous, universal appeal – that was an accomplishment I never expected in my entire life."[137] Edelman and Kupferberg described the series as "a television landmark" in the U.S. for having an older female character as the protagonist, paving the way for later series like The Golden Girls.[138] Lansbury noted that "I think it's the first time a show has really been aimed at the middle aged audience",[139] and although it was most popular among senior citizens, it gradually gained a younger audience; by 1991, a third of viewers were under fifty.[140] It gained continually high ratings throughout most of its run, outdoing rivals in its time slot such as Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories on NBC.[141] In 1987, a spin-off was produced, The Law & Harry McGraw, although it proved short-lived.[142]

As Murder, She Wrote went on, Lansbury assumed a larger role behind the scenes.[143] In 1989, her own company, Corymore Productions, began co-producing the show with Universal.[144] Lansbury began to tire of the series, and in particular the long working hours, stating that the 1990–91 season would be its last.[145] She changed her mind after being appointed executive producer for the 1992–93 season, something that she felt "made it far more interesting to me."[146] For the seventh season, the show's primary setting moved to New York City, where Fletcher had taken a job teaching criminology at Manhattan University; the move, encouraged by Lansbury, was an attempt to attract younger viewers.[147] Having become a "Sunday-night institution" in the U.S., the show's ratings improved during the early 1990s, becoming a Top Five programme.[148]

 
Lansbury photographed in 2000 at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC

Hoping to gain a larger audience for the show's 11th season, CBS executives moved Murder, She Wrote to Thursdays at 8 pm, opposite NBC's new sitcom, Friends. Lansbury was angry at the move, believing that it ignored the show's core audience.[149] This would be the series' final season. The final episode aired on 19 May 1996, and ended with Lansbury voicing a "Goodbye from Jessica" message.[150] In The Washington Post, Tom Shales suggested that the series had become "partly a victim of commercial television's mad youth mania";[151] there were "vocal protests" at its cancellation from the show's fanbase.[152] At the time, it tied the original Hawaii Five-O as the longest-running detective drama series in history.[148] Lansbury initially had plans for a Murder She Wrote television film that would be a musical with a score composed by Jerry Herman;[153] that project did not materialize but resulted in the 1996 television film Mrs. Santa Claus, with Lansbury playing Santa's wife, which proved to be a ratings hit.[154] Murder, She Wrote continued through several made-for-television films: South By Southwest in 1997, A Story To Die For in 2000, The Last Free Man in 2001, and The Celtic Riddle in 2003.[152][155] The role of Fletcher would prove the most successful and prominent of Lansbury's career,[156] and she would later speak critically of attempts to reboot the series with a different actress in the lead.[157]

Throughout the run of Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury had continued appearing in other television films, miniseries and cinema.[158] In 1986, she co-hosted the New York Philharmonic's televised tribute to the centenary of the Statue of Liberty with Kirk Douglas.[159] That same year, she appeared as the protagonist's mother in Rage of Angels: The Story Continues,[158] and in 1988 portrayed Nan Moore – the mother of a victim of the real-life Korean Air Lines Flight 007 plane crash – in Shootdown.[160] 1989 saw her featured in The Shell Seekers as an Englishwoman recuperating from a heart attack,[161] and in 1990 she starred in The Love She Sought as an American school teacher who falls in love with a Catholic priest while visiting Ireland; Lansbury thought it "a marvelous woman's story."[162] Lansbury next starred as the eponymous cockney in a television film adaptation of the novel Mrs 'Arris Goes to Paris, directed by her son and executive produced by her stepson.[163]

Lansbury's highest profile cinematic role since The Manchurian Candidate was as the voice of the singing teapot Mrs. Potts in the 1991 Disney animation Beauty and the Beast, an appearance that she considered to be a gift to her three grandchildren. Lansbury performed the title song to the film, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.[164] Lansbury again lent her voice to an animated character, this time that of the Empress Dowager, for the 1997 film Anastasia.[165][166]

Lansbury's Murder, She Wrote fame resulted in her being employed to appear in advertisements and infomercials for Bufferin, MasterCard and the Beatrix Potter Company.[167] In 1988, she released a VHS video titled Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves: My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well-Being, in which she outlined her personal exercise routine, and in 1990 published a book with the same title co-written with Mimi Avins, which she dedicated to her mother.[168] As a result of her work, she was awarded a CBE by the British government, given to her in a ceremony by Charles, Prince of Wales, at the British consulate in Los Angeles.[169] While living for most of the year in California, Lansbury spent the Christmas period and the summer at Corymore House, a farmhouse overlooking the Atlantic Ocean near to Ballywilliam, County Cork, which she had had built as a family home in 1991.[170]

Final years: 2003–2022

 
Lansbury performing in Deuce on Broadway in 2007

In the years following Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury was increasingly preoccupied by her husband's deteriorating health; it was for this reason that she dropped out of being the lead role in the 2001 Kander and Ebb musical The Visit before it opened.[171] Peter died in January 2003 of congestive heart failure at the couple's Brentwood home.[172] Lansbury felt that after this she would not take on any more major acting roles, perhaps only making cameo appearances.[173] Wanting to spend more time in New York City, in 2006 she purchased a $2 million condominium in Manhattan.[173][174]

Lansbury appeared in a season six episode of the television show Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2005.[175] She also starred in the 2005 film Nanny McPhee as Aunt Adelaide, later informing an interviewer that working on it "pulled me out of the abyss" after her husband's death.[174] Lansbury returned to Broadway after a 23-year absence in Deuce, a play by Terrence McNally that opened at the Music Box Theatre in May 2007 for an 18-week limited run.[176] Lansbury received a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her role.[177] In March 2009, she returned to Broadway for a revival of Blithe Spirit at the Shubert Theatre, where she took on the role of Madame Arcati.[178] This appearance earned her the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play; this was her fifth Tony Award, tying her with the previous record holder for the number of Tony Awards, Julie Harris.[179] From December 2009 to June 2010, Lansbury then starred as Madame Armfeldt in a Broadway revival of A Little Night Music at the Walter Kerr Theatre.[180] The role earned her a seventh Tony Award nomination,[181] while in May 2010, she was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Manhattan School of Music.[182] She then appeared in the 2011 film Mr. Popper's Penguins, opposite Jim Carrey.[183]

From April to July 2012, Lansbury appeared as women's rights advocate Sue-Ellen Gamadge in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.[184] From February to June 2013, she starred alongside James Earl Jones in an Australian tour of Driving Miss Daisy,[185] an appearance that resulted in her pulling out from a scheduled role in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel.[186] In November 2013, she received an Academy Honorary Award for her lifetime achievement at the Governors Awards.[187] In 2014, Lansbury was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.[188] From March to June 2014, Lansbury reprised her performance as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End, her first London stage appearance in nearly 40 years.[189] While in London, she made an appearance at the Angela Lansbury Film Festival, a screening of some of her films in Poplar.[190][191] From December 2014 to March 2015 she joined the tour of Blithe Spirit across North America.[192] In April 2015 she received her first Olivier Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Arcati,[193] and in November 2015 was awarded the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre.[194]

Lansbury agreed to star as Mrs St Maugham in a Broadway run of Enid Bagnold's 1955 play The Chalk Garden, although later acknowledged that she no longer had the stamina for eight performances a week. Instead, she appeared in a one-night staged reading of the play at Hunter University in 2017.[195] Lansbury's final television role was as Aunt March in the BBC miniseries Little Women, screened in December 2017.[196] 2018 saw Lansbury's appearance in the family film Buttons: A Christmas Tale,[197] as well as in the film Mary Poppins Returns; her cameo role as the Balloon Lady involved singing the song "Nowhere To Go But Up".[198] That year also saw the release of animated film The Grinch, for which Lansbury voiced the Mayor of Whoville.[199] In November 2019, Lansbury made her last return to Broadway, portraying Lady Bracknell in a one-night benefit staging of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest for Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre.[200] Lansbury's final film appearance was in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, released in 2022.[201] Lansbury died in her sleep at her Los Angeles home on October 11, 2022, aged 96.[202][203][204]

Personal life

Ange is classy and elegant, warm and generous, but she's also tough and expects everyone around her to give their all. As far as she is concerned, there is no challenge that can't be at least partially met with a "cuppa" very strong Yorkshire Gold. Working on the stage keeps her vibrant. A healthy regimen keeps her beautiful. What keeps her ageless is her immense curiosity, her exuberance for life, and her tremendous gift for holding on to joy.

— Friend and co-star Len Cariou, 2012[205]

Lansbury defined herself as being "Irish-British".[206] She became a U.S. citizen in 1951, although retained her British citizenship.[32] According to a 2014 article in the Irish Independent, she also held Irish citizenship.[207] Although adopting an Americanized accent for roles like that of Fletcher, Lansbury retained her English accent throughout her life.[208]

Lansbury was a profoundly private person,[209] and disliked attempts at flattery.[210] Gottfried characterized her as being "Meticulous. Cautious. Self-editing. Deliberate. It is what the British call reserved".[211] In The Daily Telegraph, the theatre critic Dominic Cavendish noted that Lansbury's hallmarks were "self-composure, commitment and, yes, gentility", approaches he thought had become "in too short supply in the age of snowflakery and social media self-promotion."[212] Gottfried also noted that she was "as concerned, as sensitive, and as sympathetic as anyone might want in a friend".[213]

Lansbury was married twice, first to actor Richard Cromwell. They were married in a small civil ceremony on September 27, 1945, when she was 19 and Cromwell was 35. They divorced in 1946, but remained friends until his death in 1960.[214] In 1949, Lansbury married actor and producer Peter Shaw, and they remained together for 54 years until he died in 2003.[172] They had two children together, Anthony Peter (b. 1952) and Deirdre Ann (b. 1953), and Lansbury became the stepmother of Shaw's son David from his first marriage. While Lansbury repeatedly stated that she wanted to put her children before her career, she admitted that she frequently had to leave them in California for long periods when she was working elsewhere.[215]

 
Lansbury photographed in 2013

In the latter part of the 1960s, Anthony and Deirdre became involved in the growing counterculture and started using recreational drugs. Deirdre developed an acquaintance with the Manson family,[216] and Anthony became addicted to cocaine and heroin. He overcame both addictions in 1971.[217] After he recovered, Anthony became a television director and he directed 68 episodes of Murder, She Wrote.[218] Deirdre married a chef, and together they opened a restaurant in West Los Angeles.[219] Lansbury had three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren at the time of her death in 2022.[220] Lansbury was a cousin of the Postgate family, including the animator and activist Oliver Postgate.[221] She was also a second cousin of the academic and novelist Coral Lansbury, whose son Malcolm Turnbull was Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018.[222]

As a young actress, Lansbury was a self-professed homebody,[223] who commented that she loved housekeeping.[224] She preferred to spend quiet evenings with her friends inside her house because she did not like to engage in Hollywood nightlife.[225] Her hobbies at the time included reading, riding, playing tennis, cooking, and playing the piano; she also had a keen interest in gardening.[226] She cited F. Scott Fitzgerald as her favourite author,[227] and Roseanne and Seinfeld among her favourite television shows.[228] In 1990, she cited her favourite female actors as being Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, and Shirley MacLaine, with her favourite male actors as Sean Connery, Tom Cruise, and Tom Hanks.[229] Lansbury was an avid letter writer who wrote letters by hand and made copies of all of them.[230] At Howard Gotlieb's request, Lansbury's papers are housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.[231]

Lansbury brought up her children as Episcopalians, but they were not members of a congregation.[232] She stated, "I believe that God is within all of us, that we are perfect, precious beings, and that we have to put our faith and trust in that."[232] She supported Britain's Labour Party, to which she had family ties,[191] and the U.S. Democratic Party; she described herself as a "Democrat from the ground up" to quash online rumours that she endorsed the Republican Party.[233] She also supported various charities, particularly those combating domestic abuse and rehabilitating drug users.[234] In the 1980s, she also supported charities combating HIV/AIDS.[235]

Lansbury was a chain smoker in early life,[227] but quit smoking in the mid-1960s.[236] In 1976 and 1987, she underwent cosmetic surgery on her neck to prevent it from broadening with age.[237] During the 1990s, she began to suffer from arthritis.[238] Lansbury underwent hip replacement surgery in May 1994,[238] followed by knee replacement surgery in 2005.[239]

Honours and legacy

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Angela Lansbury

In a career stretching from ingénue to dowager, from elegant heroine to depraved villainess, [Lansbury] has displayed durability and flexibility, as well as a highly admired work ethic.

— The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2010[240]

In the 1960s, The New York Times referred to Lansbury as the "First Lady of Musical Theatre".[241] Lansbury described herself as an actress who also could sing,[241] although in her early film appearances her singing was repeatedly dubbed;[242] Sondheim stated that she had a strong voice, albeit with a limited range.[243] In The Oxford Companion to the American Musical, Thomas S. Hischak related that Lansbury was "more a character actress than a leading lady" for much of her career, one who "brought a sparkling stage presence to her work".[242] Gottfried described her as "an American icon",[209] while the BBC characterized her as "one of Britain's favourite exports,"[208] and The Independent suggested that she could be considered Britain's most successful actress.[244] In The Guardian, journalist Mark Lawson described her as a member of the "acting aristocracy in three countries" – Britain, Ireland, and the United States.[195]

Gottfried noted that Lansbury's public image was "practically saintly".[245] A 2007 interviewer for The New York Times described her as "one of the few actors it makes sense to call beloved", noting that a 1994 article in People magazine awarded her a perfect score on its "lovability index".[173] The New Statesman commented that she "has the kind of pulling power many younger and more ubiquitous actors can only dream of."[190] Lansbury was a gay icon.[77][246] She described herself as being "very proud of the fact", attributing her popularity among gay people to her performance in Mame;[77] an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer suggested that Murder, She Wrote had further broadened her appeal with that demographic.[247]

Following the announcement of Lansbury's death, many figures in the entertainment industry praised her on social media.[248] The actor Jason Alexander called her "one of the most versatile, talented, graceful, kind, witty, wise, classy ladies" he had ever met.[249] Actor Uzo Aduba called her an "icon of the stage", while actor Josh Gad noted that it was rare that "one person can touch multiple generations, creating a breadth of work that defines decade after decade. Angela Lansbury was that artist".[248] Screenwriter and actor Mark Gatiss praised Lansbury as "the very definition of a pro," while Douglas C. Baker, the producing director for Center Theatre Group, stated that "Angela was a titan of show business, but at the same time she was one of the most kind and approachable people you would ever meet [...] Impeccably professional, genuine and deeply hilarious."[250] Former Walt Disney Studios CEO Robert Iger described her "a consummate professional, a talented actress, and a lovely person."[251] Others who posted in remembrance of Lansbury included Kristin Chenoweth, Viola Davis, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Harvey Fierstein, Kathy Griffin, Jeremy O. Harris, Brent Spiner, George Takei, and Rachel Zegler.[251][252][250]

 
Lansbury's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles

Lansbury was recognised for her achievements in Britain on multiple occasions. In 2002, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) gave Lansbury a Lifetime Achievement Award.[253] Lansbury was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1994 Birthday Honours,[253] and subsequently was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to drama, charitable work, and philanthropy.[254] On being made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, Lansbury stated: "I'm joining a marvellous group of women I greatly admire like Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. It's a lovely thing to be given that nod of approval by your own country and I cherish it."[254]

Lansbury received Golden Globe[255] and People's Choice Awards for her television and film work.[256] Lansbury never won an Emmy Award despite 18 nominations (17 of them Primetime Emmy Awards) for which she was nominated over 33 years. As of 2009, she held the record for the most unsuccessful Emmy nominations by a performer.[257][258] She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, but never won; reflecting on this in 2007, she stated that she was at first "terribly disappointed, but subsequently very glad that [she] did not win" because she believed that she would have otherwise had a less successful career.[259]

In 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors voted to bestow upon Lansbury an Honorary Academy Award for her lifetime achievements in the industry. The actors Emma Thompson and Geoffrey Rush offered tributes at the Governors Awards where the ceremony was held, and Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies presented her with the Oscar, stating that "Angela has been adding class, talent, beauty, and intelligence to the movies" since 1944.[260] The Oscar statue is inscribed: "To Angela Lansbury, an icon who has created some of cinema's most memorable characters inspiring generations of actors".[261]

Bibliography

  • Lansbury, Angela; Avins, Mimi (1990). Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves: My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well-Being. New York: Delacorte Press. ISBN 978-0-385-30223-4.

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ In a 2014 interview for BBC Radio 4 she stated that "I want to make one thing clear: I was not born in Poplar, that's not true, I was born in Regent's Park, so I wasn't born in the East End, I wish I could say I had been. Certainly my antecedents were: my grandfather, my father." (mins 3–4).[3]

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General and cited sources

  • Bonanno, Margaret Wander (1987). Angela Lansbury: A Biography. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-00561-0.
  • Clark, Lynn Schofield (2004). "Lansbury, Angela (1925-)". In Horace Newcomb (ed.). Encyclopedia of Television (second ed.). Abingdon and New York: Routledge. pp. 1318–1319. ISBN 9781579583941.
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Further reading

  • Alistair, Rupert (2018). "Angela Lansbury". The Name Below the Title: 65 Classic Movie Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age (softcover) (First ed.). Great Britain: [Independently published]. pp. 151–156. ISBN 978-1-7200-3837-5.

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angela, lansbury, dame, angela, brigid, lansbury, october, 1925, october, 2022, irish, british, american, actress, singer, career, spanning, eight, decades, played, various, roles, across, film, stage, television, although, based, much, life, united, states, w. Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE October 16 1925 October 11 2022 was an Irish British and American actress and singer In a career spanning eight decades 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 as well as a large number of awards DameAngela LansburyDBELansbury in 1950BornAngela Brigid Lansbury 1925 10 16 October 16 1925Regent s Park London EnglandDiedOctober 11 2022 2022 10 11 aged 96 Los Angeles California USResting placeWestwood Village Memorial Park CemeteryCitizenshipUnited Kingdom United States from 1951 Ireland from c 1970 OccupationsActresssingerYears active1942 2022Notable workFull listPolitical partyDemocraticLabourSpousesRichard Cromwell m 1945 div 1946 wbr Peter Shaw m 1949 died 2003 wbr Children2ParentsEdgar Lansbury father Moyna Macgill mother FamilyBruce Lansbury brother Edgar Lansbury brother George Lansbury grandfather Dorothy Thurtle aunt Daisy Postgate aunt Tamara Ustinov niece John Postgate cousin Oliver Postgate cousin Coral Lansbury second cousin Malcolm Turnbull the second cousin once removed Peter Ustinov brother in law Daniel Postgate second cousin AwardsFull listLansbury was born to 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 to MGM and obtained her first film roles in Gaslight 1944 National Velvet 1944 and The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 earning various awards 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 however her role in the film The Manchurian Candidate 1962 received widespread acclaim and is frequently cited as one of her best performances Moving into musical theatre Lansbury gained stardom for playing the leading role in the Broadway musical Mame 1966 winning her first Tony Award and becoming a gay icon Amidst difficulties in her personal life Lansbury moved from California to Ireland s County Cork in 1970 She continued to make theatrical and cinematic appearances throughout that decade including leading roles in the stage musicals Gypsy Sweeney Todd and The King and I as well as in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1971 Moving into television in 1984 she achieved worldwide fame as the fictional sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the American whodunit series Murder She Wrote which ran for twelve seasons until 1996 becoming one of the longest running and most popular detective drama series in television history Through Corymore Productions a company that she co owned with her husband Peter Shaw Lansbury assumed ownership of the series and was its executive producer during its final four seasons She also moved into voice work contributing to animated films like Beauty and the Beast 1991 and Anastasia 1997 In the 21st century she toured in several theatrical productions and appeared in family films such as Nanny McPhee 2005 and Mary Poppins Returns 2018 At the time of her death Lansbury was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema Among her numerous accolades were six Tony Awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award six Golden Globe Awards a Laurence Olivier Award and the Academy Honorary Award in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards eighteen Primetime Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award Contents 1 Early life and career beginnings 1 1 Childhood 1925 1942 1 2 Career breakthrough 1942 1945 1 3 Later MGM films 1945 1951 2 Mid career 2 1 The Manchurian Candidate and minor roles 1952 1965 2 2 Mame and theatrical stardom 1966 1969 2 3 Ireland and Gypsy 1970 1978 2 4 Sweeney Todd and continued cinematic work 1979 1984 3 Global fame 3 1 Murder She Wrote 1984 2003 3 2 Final years 2003 2022 4 Personal life 5 Honours and legacy 6 Bibliography 7 See also 8 References 8 1 Notes 8 2 Citations 8 3 General and cited sources 9 Further reading 10 External linksEarly life and career beginnings EditSee also Angela Lansbury on screen and stage Childhood 1925 1942 Edit Angela Brigid Lansbury was born to an upper middle class family on October 16 1925 1 Although her birthplace has often been given as Poplar East London 2 she has rejected this stating that while she had ancestral connections to Poplar she was born in Regent s Park Central London a Her mother was Belfast born Irish Moyna Macgill born Charlotte Lillian McIldowie an actress who regularly appeared on stage in London s West End and who also appeared in several films 4 Her father was the wealthy English timber merchant and politician Edgar Lansbury a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and former mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar 5 Her paternal grandfather was the Labour Party leader George Lansbury a man whom she felt awed by and considered a giant in my youth 6 Angela had an older half sister Isolde who was the offspring of Macgill s previous marriage to Reginald Denham 7 In January 1930 Macgill gave birth to twin boys Bruce and Edgar leading the Lansburys to move from their Poplar flat to a house in Mill Hill North London on weekends they would vacate to a rural farm in Berrick Salome Oxfordshire 8 I m eternally grateful for the Irish side of me That s where I got my sense of comedy and whimsy As for the English half that s my reserved side But put me onstage and the Irish comes out The combination makes a good mix for acting Angela Lansbury 9 When Lansbury was nine her father died from stomach cancer she retreated into playing characters as a coping mechanism 10 Facing financial difficulty her mother became engaged to a Scottish colonel Leckie Forbes and moved into his house in Hampstead with Lansbury receiving an education at South Hampstead High School from 1934 until 1939 11 where she was two years below actress Glynis Johns 12 She nevertheless considered herself largely self educated learning from books theatre and cinema 13 She became a self professed complete movie maniac visiting the cinema regularly 14 Keen on playing the piano she briefly studied music at the Ritman School of Dancing and in 1940 began studying acting at the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art in Kensington West London first appearing onstage as a lady in waiting in the school s production of Maxwell Anderson s Mary of Scotland 15 That year Angela s grandfather died and with the onset of the Blitz Macgill decided to take Angela Bruce and Edgar to the United States Isolde remained in Britain with her new husband the actor Peter Ustinov Macgill secured a job supervising 60 British children who were being evacuated to North America aboard the Duchess of Athol arriving with them in Montreal Canada in August 1940 16 She then proceeded by train to New York City where she was financially sponsored by a Wall Street businessman Charles T Smith moving in with his family at their home at Mahopac New York 17 Lansbury gained a scholarship from the American Theatre Wing to study at the Feagin School of Drama and Radio where she appeared in performances of William Congreve s The Way of the World and Oscar Wilde s Lady Windermere s Fan She graduated in March 1942 by which time the family had moved to a flat in Morton Street Greenwich Village 18 Career breakthrough 1942 1945 Edit Macgill secured work in a Canadian touring production of Tonight at 8 30 and was joined by her daughter There Lansbury gained her first theatrical job as a nightclub act at the Samovar Club Montreal singing songs by Noel Coward Although 16 years old she claimed to be 19 to secure the job 19 Lansbury returned to New York City in August 1942 but her mother had moved to Hollywood Los Angeles to resurrect her cinematic career Lansbury and her brothers followed 20 Moving into a bungalow in Laurel Canyon both Lansbury and her mother obtained Christmas jobs at the Bullocks Wilshire department store in Los Angeles Macgill was sacked for incompetence leaving the family to subsist on Lansbury s wages of 28 a week 21 Befriending a group of gay men Lansbury became privy to the city s underground gay scene 22 With her mother she attended lectures by the spiritual guru Jiddu Krishnamurtif at one of these meeting the writer Aldous Huxley 22 Lansbury in the trailer for The Picture of Dorian Gray At a party hosted by her mother Lansbury met John van Druten who had recently co authored a script for Gaslight 1944 a mystery thriller based on Patrick Hamilton s 1938 play Gas Light The film was being directed by George Cukor and starred Ingrid Bergman in the lead role of Paula Alquist a woman in Victorian London being psychologically tormented by her husband Druten suggested that Lansbury would be perfect for the role of Nancy Oliver a cockney maid she was accepted for the part although since she was only 17 a social worker had to accompany her on the set 23 Obtaining an agent Earl Kramer she was signed to a seven year contract with MGM earning 500 a week Although in her personal life she was widely known by her second name Brigid she adopted Angela Lansbury as her stage name 24 Gaslight received mixed critical reviews although Lansbury s role was widely praised the film earned six Academy Award nominations including one for Best Supporting Actress for Lansbury 25 Her next film appearance was as Edwina Brown in National Velvet 1944 the film became a major commercial hit and Lansbury developed a lifelong friendship with co star Elizabeth Taylor 26 Lansbury next starred in The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 a cinematic adaptation of Wilde s 1890 novel of the same name which was again set in Victorian London Directed by Albert Lewin Lansbury was cast as Sybil Vane a working class music hall singer who falls in love with the protagonist Dorian Gray Hurd Hatfield Although the film was not a financial success Lansbury s performance once more drew praise earning her a Golden Globe Award and she was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards losing to Anne Revere her co star in National Velvet 27 Later MGM films 1945 1951 Edit On September 27 1945 Lansbury married Richard Cromwell an artist and decorator whose acting career had come to a standstill Their marriage was troubled Cromwell was gay and had married Lansbury in the unsuccessful hope that it would turn him heterosexual Lansbury filed for divorce within a year it being granted on September 11 1946 but they remained friends until his death 28 In December 1946 she was introduced to fellow English expatriate Peter Pullen Shaw at a party held by former co star Hurd Hatfield in Ojai Valley Shaw was an aspiring actor also signed to MGM and had recently left a relationship with Joan Crawford He and Lansbury became a couple living together before she proposed marriage 29 They wanted a wedding in Britain but the Church of England refused to marry two divorcees Instead they wed at St Columba s Church a place of worship under the jurisdiction of the Church of Scotland in Knightsbridge London in August 1949 followed by a honeymoon in France 30 Returning to the U S they settled into Lansbury s home in Rustic Canyon Malibu 31 In 1951 the couple both became naturalized U S citizens albeit retaining their British citizenship via dual nationality 32 Lansbury in a scene from MGM s Till the Clouds Roll By 1946 one of her earliest film appearances Following the success of Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray MGM cast Lansbury in 11 further films until her contract with the company ended in 1952 Keeping her among their B list stars MGM used her less than their similar aged actresses Lansbury biographers Rob Edelman and Audrey E Kupferberg believed that the majority of these films were mediocre doing little to further her career 33 This view was echoed by Cukor who believed Lansbury had been consistently miscast by MGM 34 She was repeatedly made to portray older women often villainous and as a result became increasingly dissatisfied with working for MGM commenting that I kept wanting to play the Jean Arthur roles and Mr Mayer kept casting me as a series of venal bitches 35 The company was suffering from the post 1948 slump in cinema sales as a result slashing film budgets and cutting their number of staff 35 In 1946 Lansbury played her first American character as Em a honky tonk saloon singer in the Oscar winning Wild West musical The Harvey Girls 36 her singing was dubbed by Virginia Reese 37 She appeared in The Hoodlum Saint 1946 Till the Clouds Roll By 1947 If Winter Comes 1947 Tenth Avenue Angel 1948 The Three Musketeers 1948 State of the Union 1948 and The Red Danube 1949 She was loaned by MGM first to United Artists for The Private Affairs of Bel Ami 1947 and then to Paramount for Samson and Delilah 1949 38 She appeared as a villainous maidservant in Kind Lady 1951 and a French adventuress in Mutiny 1952 39 Turning to radio in 1948 she appeared in an audio adaptation of Somerset Maugham s Of Human Bondage for NBC University Theatre and the following year she starred in their adaptation of Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice 40 Moving into television she appeared in a 1950 episode of Robert Montgomery Presents adapted from A J Cronin s The Citadel 41 Mid career EditThe Manchurian Candidate and minor roles 1952 1965 Edit Lansbury with her children in 1957 Unhappy with the roles she was being given by MGM Lansbury instructed her manager Harry Friedman of MCA Inc to terminate her contract in 1952 42 She was pregnant with Shaw s child and that year her son Anthony was born 43 Soon after the birth she joined the East Coast touring productions of two former Broadway plays Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse s Remains to be Seen and Louis Verneuil s Affairs of State 44 Biographer Margaret Bonanno later stated that at this point Lansbury s career had hit an all time low 45 In April 1953 her daughter Deirdre Angela Shaw was born 46 Shaw had a son by a previous marriage David whom he brought to California to live with the family after he gained legal custody of the boy in 1953 Now with three children to care for Lansbury moved to a larger house in San Vicente Boulevard in Santa Monica 47 Lansbury did not feel entirely comfortable in the Hollywood social scene later commenting that as a result of her British roots in Hollywood I always felt like a stranger in a strange land 48 In 1959 the family moved to Malibu settling into a house on the Pacific Coast Highway that had been designed by Aaron Green there she and Peter escaped the Hollywood scene and sent their children to state school 49 Returning to cinema as a freelance actress Lansbury found herself typecast as an older maternal figure appearing in this capacity in most of her films from this period 50 She later stated that Hollywood made me old before my time noting that in her twenties she was receiving fan mail from people who thought her in her forties 51 She obtained minor roles in such films as A Life at Stake 1954 A Lawless Street 1955 and The Purple Mask 1955 later describing the latter as the worst movie I ever made 52 She played Princess Gwendolyn in the comedy film The Court Jester 1956 before taking on the role of a wife who kills her husband in Please Murder Me 1956 From there she appeared as Minnie Littlejohn in The Long Hot Summer 1958 and as Mabel Claremont in The Reluctant Debutante 1958 for which she filmed in Paris 53 Biographer Martin Gottfried has claimed that it was these latter two cinematic appearances which restored Lansbury s status as an A picture actress 54 Throughout this period she continued making television appearances starring in episodes of The Revlon Mirror Theater Ford Theatre and The George Gobel Show and became a regular on game show Pantomime Quiz 55 Lansbury in a publicity shot from 1966 In April 1957 she debuted on Broadway at the Henry Miller Theatre in Hotel Paradiso a French burlesque directed by Peter Glenville The play only ran for 15 weeks although she earned good reviews for her role as Marcel Cat She later stated that had she not appeared in the play her whole career would have fizzled out 56 Into the 1960s she followed this with an appearance in a Broadway performance of A Taste of Honey at the Lyceum Theatre directed by Tony Richardson and George Devine Lansbury played Helen the boorish verbally abusive mother of Josephine played by Joan Plowright only four years Lansbury s junior remarking that she gained a great deal of satisfaction from the role 57 During the show s run Lansbury developed a friendship with both Plowright and Plowright s lover Laurence Olivier it was from Lansbury s rented flat on East 97th Street that Plowright and Olivier eloped to be married 58 After a well reviewed appearance in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1959 for which she had filmed in the Australian Outback and a minor role in A Breath of Scandal 1960 Lansbury appeared in 1961 s Blue Hawaii as the mother of a character played by Elvis Presley 59 Although believing that the film was of poor quality she commented that she agreed to appear in it because she was desperate 60 Her role as Mavis in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 1960 drew critical acclaim as did her appearance in All Fall Down 1962 as a manipulative destructive mother 61 In 1962 she appeared in the Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate as Eleanor Iselin cast for the role by John Frankenheimer Although Lansbury played actor Laurence Harvey s mother in the film she was in fact only three years older than him 62 She had agreed to appear in the film after reading the original novel describing it as one of the most exciting political books I ever read 63 Biographers Edelman and Kupferberg considered this role her enduring cinematic triumph 64 while Gottfried stated that it was the strongest the most memorable and the best picture she ever made she gives her finest film performance in it 65 Lansbury received her third Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination for the film 66 She followed this with a performance as Sybil Logan in In the Cool of the Day 1963 a film she renounced as awful before appearing as wealthy Isabel Boyd in The World of Henry Orient 1964 and the widow Phyllis in Dear Heart 1964 67 Her first appearance in a theatrical musical was the short lived Anyone Can Whistle written by Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim An experimental work it opened at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway in April 1964 but was critically panned and closed after nine performances Lansbury had played the role of crooked mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper and although she loved Sondheim s score she experienced personal differences with Laurents and was glad when the show closed 68 She appeared in The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965 a cinematic biopic of Jesus but was cut almost entirely from the final edit 69 She followed this with appearances as Mama Jean Bello in Harlow 1965 as Lady Blystone in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders 1965 and as Gloria in Mister Buddwing 1966 70 Although many of her cinematic roles had been well received celluloid superstardom evaded Lansbury and she became increasingly dissatisfied with these minor roles feeling that none allowed her to explore her potential as an actress 71 Mame and theatrical stardom 1966 1969 Edit I was a wife and a mother and I was completely fulfilled But my husband recognised the signals in me which said I ve been doing enough gardening I ve cooked enough good dinners I ve sat around the house and mooned about what more interior decoration I can get my fingers into It s a curious thing with actors and actresses but suddenly the alarm goes off My husband is a very sensitive person to my moods and he recognised the fact that I had to get on with something Mame came along out of the blue just at this time Now isn t that a miracle Angela Lansbury 72 In 1966 Lansbury took on the title role of Mame Dennis in the musical Mame Jerry Herman s musical adaptation of the 1955 novel Auntie Mame The director s first choice for the role had been Rosalind Russell who played Mame in the 1958 non musical film adaptation but she had declined Lansbury actively sought the role in the hope that it would mark a change in her career When she was chosen it came as a surprise to theatre critics who believed that the part would go to a better known actress Lansbury was 41 years old and it was her first starring role 73 Mame Dennis was a glamorous character with over 20 costume changes throughout the play and Lansbury s role involved ten songs and dance routines for which she trained extensively 74 First appearing in Philadelphia and then Boston Mame opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in May 1966 75 Auntie Mame was already popular among the gay community 76 and Mame gained Lansbury a cult gay following something that she later attributed to the fact that Mame Dennis was every gay person s idea of glamour Everything about Mame coincided with every young man s idea of beauty and glory and it was lovely 77 Reviews of Lansbury s performance were overwhelmingly positive 78 In The New York Times Stanley Kauffmann wrote Miss Lansbury is a singing dancing actress not a singer or dancer who also acts In this marathon role she has wit poise warmth and a very taking coolth 79 The role resulted in Lansbury receiving her first Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical 80 as well as the Antoinette Perry Award 81 Lansbury s later biographer Margaret Bonanno claimed that Mame made Lansbury a superstar 82 with the actress herself commenting on her success Everyone loves you everyone loves the success and enjoys it as much as you do And it lasts as long as you are on that stage and as long as you keep coming out of that stage door 83 Off the stage Lansbury made further television appearances such as on Perry Como s Thanksgiving Special in November 1966 84 She also engaged in high profile charitable endeavours for instance appearing as the guest of honour at the 1967 March of Dimes annual benefit luncheon 84 She was invited to star in a musical performance for the 1968 Academy Awards ceremony and co hosted that year s Tony Awards with former brother in law Peter Ustinov 85 That year Harvard University s Hasty Pudding Club elected her Woman of the Year 86 When the film adaptation of Mame was put into production Lansbury hoped to be offered the part but it instead went to Lucille Ball an established box office success 87 Lansbury considered this to be one of my bitterest disappointments 88 Her personal life was further complicated when she learned that both of her children had become involved with the counterculture of the 1960s and had been using recreational drugs as a result Anthony had become addicted to cocaine and heroin 89 Lansbury followed the success of Mame with a performance as Countess Aurelia the 75 year old Parisian eccentric in Dear World a musical adaptation of Jean Giraudoux s The Madwoman of Chaillot The show opened at Broadway s Mark Hellinger Theatre in February 1969 but Lansbury found it a pretty depressing experience Reviews of her performance were positive and she was awarded her second Tony Award on the basis of it Reviews of the show more generally were critical however and it ended after 132 performances 90 She followed this with an appearance in the title role of the musical Prettybelle based upon Jean Arnold s Prettybelle A Lively Tale of Rape and Resurrection Set in the Deep South it dealt with issues of racism with Lansbury playing a wealthy alcoholic who seeks sexual encounters with black men The play opened in Boston but received poor reviews and was cancelled before it reached Broadway 91 Lansbury later described the play as a complete and utter fiasco admitting that in her opinion her performance was awful 92 Ireland and Gypsy 1970 1978 Edit In the early 1970s Lansbury declined several cinematic roles including the lead in The Killing of Sister George and the role of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest 93 Instead she accepted the role of the Countess von Ornstein an ageing German aristocrat who falls in love with a younger man in Something for Everyone 1970 for which she filmed on location in Hohenschwangen Bavaria 94 That same year she appeared as the middle aged English witch Eglentine Price in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks this was her first lead in a screen musical and led to her publicizing the film on television programmes like the David Frost Show 95 She later noted that as a big commercial hit this film secured an enormous audience for me 96 1970 was a traumatic year for the Lansbury family as Peter underwent a hip replacement Anthony suffered a heroin overdose and entered a coma and the family s Malibu home was destroyed in a brush fire 97 They then purchased Knockmourne Glebe a farmhouse built in the 1820s which was located near Conna in rural County Cork and after Anthony quit using cocaine and heroin took him there to recover from his drug addiction 98 He subsequently enrolled in the Webber Douglas School his mother s alma mater and became a professional actor before moving into television directing 99 Lansbury and her husband did not return to California instead dividing their time between Cork and New York City where they lived in a flat opposite the Lincoln Center 100 In Ireland our gardener had no idea who I was Nobody there did I was just Mrs Shaw which suited me down to the ground I had absolute anonymity in those days which was wonderful Angela Lansbury 101 In 1972 Lansbury returned to London s West End to perform in the Royal Shakespeare Company s theatrical production of Edward Albee s All Over at the Aldwych Theatre She portrayed the mistress of a dying New England millionaire and although the play s reviews were mixed Lansbury s acting was widely praised 102 This was followed by her reluctant involvement in a revival of Mame which was then touring the United States 103 after which she returned to the West End to play the character of Rose in the musical Gypsy She had initially turned down the role not wishing to be in the shadow of Ethel Merman who had portrayed the character in the original Broadway production but eventually accepted it when the show started in May 1973 she earned a standing ovation and rave reviews 104 Settling into a Belgravia flat she was soon in demand among London society having dinners held in her honour 105 Following the culmination of the London run in 1974 Gypsy toured the U S in Chicago Lansbury was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance The show eventually reached Broadway where it ran until January 1975 A critical success it earned Lansbury her third Tony Award 106 After several months break Gypsy toured the country again in the summer of 1975 107 Wanting to move on from musicals Lansbury obtained the role of Gertrude in the National Theatre Company s production of William Shakespeare s Hamlet staged at the Old Vic Directed by Peter Hall the production ran from December 1975 to May 1976 receiving mixed reviews Lansbury disliked the role later commenting that she found it very trying playing restrained roles such as Gertrude 108 Her mood was worsened by her mother s death in November 1975 109 Her next theatrical appearance was in two one act plays by Albee Counting the Ways and Listening performed side by side at the Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut Reviews of the production were mixed although Lansbury was again singled out for praise 110 This was followed by another revival tour of Gypsy 111 In April 1978 Lansbury appeared in 24 performances of a revival of The King and I musical staged at Broadway s Uris Theatre Lansbury played the role of Mrs Anna replacing Constance Towers who was on a short break 112 Her first cinematic role in seven years was as novelist Salome Otterbourne in a 1978 adaptation of Agatha Christie s Death on the Nile filmed in both London and Egypt In the film Lansbury starred alongside Ustinov and Bette Davis who became a close friend The role earned Lansbury the National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actress of 1978 113 Sweeney Todd and continued cinematic work 1979 1984 Edit In March 1979 Lansbury appeared as Nellie Lovett in Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street a Sondheim musical directed by Harold Prince Opening at the Uris Theatre she starred alongside Len Cariou as Sweeney Todd the murderous barber in 19th century London After being offered the role she jumped on the opportunity due to Sondheim s involvement commenting that she loved the extraordinary wit and intelligence of his lyrics 114 She remained in the role for 14 months before being replaced by Dorothy Loudon the musical received mixed critical reviews although earned Lansbury her fourth Tony Award and After Dark magazine s Ruby Award for Broadway Performer of the Year 115 She returned to the role in October 1980 for a ten month U S tour the production was also filmed and broadcast on the Entertainment Channel 116 In 1982 Lansbury took on the role of an upper middle class housewife who champions workers rights in A Little Family Business a farce set in Baltimore in which her son Anthony also starred It debuted at Los Angeles Ahmanson Theatre before moving to Broadway s Martin Beck Theatre It was critically panned and faced protests from California s Japanese American community for including anti Japanese slurs 117 That year Lansbury was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame 118 and the following year appeared in a Mame revival at Broadway s Gershwin Theatre Although Lansbury was praised the show was a commercial failure with Lansbury noting I realised that it s not a show of today It s a period piece 119 A small number of people have seen me on the stage Television is a chance for me to play to a vast U S public and I think that s a chance you don t pass up I m interested in reaching everybody I don t want to reach just the people who can pay forty five or fifty dollars for a theatre seat Angela Lansbury 120 Working prolifically in cinema in 1979 Lansbury appeared as Miss Froy in The Lady Vanishes a remake of Alfred Hitchcock s 1938 film 121 The following year she appeared in The Mirror Crack d another film based on an Agatha Christie novel this time as Miss Marple a sleuth in 1950s Kent Lansbury hoped to get away from the depiction of the role made famous by Margaret Rutherford instead returning to Christie s description of the character She was signed to appear in two sequels as Miss Marple but these were never made 122 Lansbury s next film was the animated The Last Unicorn 1982 for which she provided the voice of the witch Mommy Fortuna 123 Returning to musical cinema she starred as Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance 1983 a film based on Gilbert and Sullivan s comic opera of the same name and while filming it in London sang on a recording of The Beggar s Opera 124 This was followed by an appearance as the grandmother in Gothic fantasy film The Company of Wolves 1984 125 Lansbury had also begun work for television appearing in a 1982 television film with Bette Davis titled Little Gloria Happy at Last 126 She followed this with an appearance in CBS s The Gift of Love A Christmas Story 1983 later describing it as the most unsophisticated thing you can imagine 127 A BBC television film followed A Talent for Murder 1984 in which she played a wheelchair user mystery writer although describing it as a rush job she agreed to do it in order to work with co star Laurence Olivier 128 Two further miniseries featuring Lansbury appeared in 1984 Lace and The First Olympics Athens 1896 129 Global fame EditMurder She Wrote 1984 2003 Edit Lansbury with Mame original Broadway cast member Bea Arthur at the 41st Primetime Emmy Awards in 1989 In 1983 Lansbury was offered two main television roles one in a sitcom and the other in a detective drama series As she was unable to do both her agents advised her to accept the former although Lansbury chose the latter 130 The series Murder She Wrote centred on the character of Jessica Fletcher a retired school teacher from the fictional town of Cabot Cove Maine Fletcher was portrayed as a successful detective novelist who also solved murders encountered during her travels Lansbury described the character as an American Miss Marple 131 The series had been created by Peter S Fischer Richard Levinson and William Link who had earlier had success with Columbo and the role of Fletcher had been first offered to Jean Stapleton who had declined it 132 The pilot episode The Murder of Sherlock Holmes premiered on CBS on September 30 1984 with the rest of the first season airing on Sundays from 8 to 9 pm Although critical reviews were mixed it proved highly popular with the pilot having a Nielsen rating of 18 9 and the first season being rated top in its time slot 133 Designed as inoffensive family viewing despite its topic the show eschewed depicting violence or gore following the whodunit format rather than those of most contemporary U S crime shows Lansbury herself commented that best of all there s no violence I hate violence 134 Lansbury exerted creative input over Fletcher s costumes makeup and hair and rejected pressure from network executives to put the character in a relationship believing that the character should remain a strong single female 135 When she believed that a scriptwriter had made Fletcher do or say things that did not fit with the character s personality Lansbury ensured that the script was changed 136 She saw Fletcher as a role model for older female viewers praising her enormous universal appeal that was an accomplishment I never expected in my entire life 137 Edelman and Kupferberg described the series as a television landmark in the U S for having an older female character as the protagonist paving the way for later series like The Golden Girls 138 Lansbury noted that I think it s the first time a show has really been aimed at the middle aged audience 139 and although it was most popular among senior citizens it gradually gained a younger audience by 1991 a third of viewers were under fifty 140 It gained continually high ratings throughout most of its run outdoing rivals in its time slot such as Steven Spielberg s Amazing Stories on NBC 141 In 1987 a spin off was produced The Law amp Harry McGraw although it proved short lived 142 As Murder She Wrote went on Lansbury assumed a larger role behind the scenes 143 In 1989 her own company Corymore Productions began co producing the show with Universal 144 Lansbury began to tire of the series and in particular the long working hours stating that the 1990 91 season would be its last 145 She changed her mind after being appointed executive producer for the 1992 93 season something that she felt made it far more interesting to me 146 For the seventh season the show s primary setting moved to New York City where Fletcher had taken a job teaching criminology at Manhattan University the move encouraged by Lansbury was an attempt to attract younger viewers 147 Having become a Sunday night institution in the U S the show s ratings improved during the early 1990s becoming a Top Five programme 148 Lansbury photographed in 2000 at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC Hoping to gain a larger audience for the show s 11th season CBS executives moved Murder She Wrote to Thursdays at 8 pm opposite NBC s new sitcom Friends Lansbury was angry at the move believing that it ignored the show s core audience 149 This would be the series final season The final episode aired on 19 May 1996 and ended with Lansbury voicing a Goodbye from Jessica message 150 In The Washington Post Tom Shales suggested that the series had become partly a victim of commercial television s mad youth mania 151 there were vocal protests at its cancellation from the show s fanbase 152 At the time it tied the original Hawaii Five O as the longest running detective drama series in history 148 Lansbury initially had plans for a Murder She Wrote television film that would be a musical with a score composed by Jerry Herman 153 that project did not materialize but resulted in the 1996 television film Mrs Santa Claus with Lansbury playing Santa s wife which proved to be a ratings hit 154 Murder She Wrote continued through several made for television films South By Southwest in 1997 A Story To Die For in 2000 The Last Free Man in 2001 and The Celtic Riddle in 2003 152 155 The role of Fletcher would prove the most successful and prominent of Lansbury s career 156 and she would later speak critically of attempts to reboot the series with a different actress in the lead 157 Throughout the run of Murder She Wrote Lansbury had continued appearing in other television films miniseries and cinema 158 In 1986 she co hosted the New York Philharmonic s televised tribute to the centenary of the Statue of Liberty with Kirk Douglas 159 That same year she appeared as the protagonist s mother in Rage of Angels The Story Continues 158 and in 1988 portrayed Nan Moore the mother of a victim of the real life Korean Air Lines Flight 007 plane crash in Shootdown 160 1989 saw her featured in The Shell Seekers as an Englishwoman recuperating from a heart attack 161 and in 1990 she starred in The Love She Sought as an American school teacher who falls in love with a Catholic priest while visiting Ireland Lansbury thought it a marvelous woman s story 162 Lansbury next starred as the eponymous cockney in a television film adaptation of the novel Mrs Arris Goes to Paris directed by her son and executive produced by her stepson 163 Lansbury s highest profile cinematic role since The Manchurian Candidate was as the voice of the singing teapot Mrs Potts in the 1991 Disney animation Beauty and the Beast an appearance that she considered to be a gift to her three grandchildren Lansbury performed the title song to the film which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture Television or Other Visual Media 164 Lansbury again lent her voice to an animated character this time that of the Empress Dowager for the 1997 film Anastasia 165 166 Lansbury s Murder She Wrote fame resulted in her being employed to appear in advertisements and infomercials for Bufferin MasterCard and the Beatrix Potter Company 167 In 1988 she released a VHS video titled Angela Lansbury s Positive Moves My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well Being in which she outlined her personal exercise routine and in 1990 published a book with the same title co written with Mimi Avins which she dedicated to her mother 168 As a result of her work she was awarded a CBE by the British government given to her in a ceremony by Charles Prince of Wales at the British consulate in Los Angeles 169 While living for most of the year in California Lansbury spent the Christmas period and the summer at Corymore House a farmhouse overlooking the Atlantic Ocean near to Ballywilliam County Cork which she had had built as a family home in 1991 170 Final years 2003 2022 Edit Lansbury performing in Deuce on Broadway in 2007 In the years following Murder She Wrote Lansbury was increasingly preoccupied by her husband s deteriorating health it was for this reason that she dropped out of being the lead role in the 2001 Kander and Ebb musical The Visit before it opened 171 Peter died in January 2003 of congestive heart failure at the couple s Brentwood home 172 Lansbury felt that after this she would not take on any more major acting roles perhaps only making cameo appearances 173 Wanting to spend more time in New York City in 2006 she purchased a 2 million condominium in Manhattan 173 174 Lansbury appeared in a season six episode of the television show Law and Order Special Victims Unit for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2005 175 She also starred in the 2005 film Nanny McPhee as Aunt Adelaide later informing an interviewer that working on it pulled me out of the abyss after her husband s death 174 Lansbury returned to Broadway after a 23 year absence in Deuce a play by Terrence McNally that opened at the Music Box Theatre in May 2007 for an 18 week limited run 176 Lansbury received a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her role 177 In March 2009 she returned to Broadway for a revival of Blithe Spirit at the Shubert Theatre where she took on the role of Madame Arcati 178 This appearance earned her the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play this was her fifth Tony Award tying her with the previous record holder for the number of Tony Awards Julie Harris 179 From December 2009 to June 2010 Lansbury then starred as Madame Armfeldt in a Broadway revival of A Little Night Music at the Walter Kerr Theatre 180 The role earned her a seventh Tony Award nomination 181 while in May 2010 she was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Manhattan School of Music 182 She then appeared in the 2011 film Mr Popper s Penguins opposite Jim Carrey 183 From April to July 2012 Lansbury appeared as women s rights advocate Sue Ellen Gamadge in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal s The Best Man at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre 184 From February to June 2013 she starred alongside James Earl Jones in an Australian tour of Driving Miss Daisy 185 an appearance that resulted in her pulling out from a scheduled role in Wes Anderson s The Grand Budapest Hotel 186 In November 2013 she received an Academy Honorary Award for her lifetime achievement at the Governors Awards 187 In 2014 Lansbury was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II 188 From March to June 2014 Lansbury reprised her performance as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre in London s West End her first London stage appearance in nearly 40 years 189 While in London she made an appearance at the Angela Lansbury Film Festival a screening of some of her films in Poplar 190 191 From December 2014 to March 2015 she joined the tour of Blithe Spirit across North America 192 In April 2015 she received her first Olivier Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Arcati 193 and in November 2015 was awarded the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre 194 Lansbury agreed to star as Mrs St Maugham in a Broadway run of Enid Bagnold s 1955 play The Chalk Garden although later acknowledged that she no longer had the stamina for eight performances a week Instead she appeared in a one night staged reading of the play at Hunter University in 2017 195 Lansbury s final television role was as Aunt March in the BBC miniseries Little Women screened in December 2017 196 2018 saw Lansbury s appearance in the family film Buttons A Christmas Tale 197 as well as in the film Mary Poppins Returns her cameo role as the Balloon Lady involved singing the song Nowhere To Go But Up 198 That year also saw the release of animated film The Grinch for which Lansbury voiced the Mayor of Whoville 199 In November 2019 Lansbury made her last return to Broadway portraying Lady Bracknell in a one night benefit staging of Wilde s The Importance of Being Earnest for Roundabout Theatre Company s American Airlines Theatre 200 Lansbury s final film appearance was in Glass Onion A Knives Out Mystery released in 2022 201 Lansbury died in her sleep at her Los Angeles home on October 11 2022 aged 96 202 203 204 Personal life EditAnge is classy and elegant warm and generous but she s also tough and expects everyone around her to give their all As far as she is concerned there is no challenge that can t be at least partially met with a cuppa very strong Yorkshire Gold Working on the stage keeps her vibrant A healthy regimen keeps her beautiful What keeps her ageless is her immense curiosity her exuberance for life and her tremendous gift for holding on to joy Friend and co star Len Cariou 2012 205 Lansbury defined herself as being Irish British 206 She became a U S citizen in 1951 although retained her British citizenship 32 According to a 2014 article in the Irish Independent she also held Irish citizenship 207 Although adopting an Americanized accent for roles like that of Fletcher Lansbury retained her English accent throughout her life 208 Lansbury was a profoundly private person 209 and disliked attempts at flattery 210 Gottfried characterized her as being Meticulous Cautious Self editing Deliberate It is what the British call reserved 211 In The Daily Telegraph the theatre critic Dominic Cavendish noted that Lansbury s hallmarks were self composure commitment and yes gentility approaches he thought had become in too short supply in the age of snowflakery and social media self promotion 212 Gottfried also noted that she was as concerned as sensitive and as sympathetic as anyone might want in a friend 213 Lansbury was married twice first to actor Richard Cromwell They were married in a small civil ceremony on September 27 1945 when she was 19 and Cromwell was 35 They divorced in 1946 but remained friends until his death in 1960 214 In 1949 Lansbury married actor and producer Peter Shaw and they remained together for 54 years until he died in 2003 172 They had two children together Anthony Peter b 1952 and Deirdre Ann b 1953 and Lansbury became the stepmother of Shaw s son David from his first marriage While Lansbury repeatedly stated that she wanted to put her children before her career she admitted that she frequently had to leave them in California for long periods when she was working elsewhere 215 Lansbury photographed in 2013 In the latter part of the 1960s Anthony and Deirdre became involved in the growing counterculture and started using recreational drugs Deirdre developed an acquaintance with the Manson family 216 and Anthony became addicted to cocaine and heroin He overcame both addictions in 1971 217 After he recovered Anthony became a television director and he directed 68 episodes of Murder She Wrote 218 Deirdre married a chef and together they opened a restaurant in West Los Angeles 219 Lansbury had three grandchildren and five great grandchildren at the time of her death in 2022 220 Lansbury was a cousin of the Postgate family including the animator and activist Oliver Postgate 221 She was also a second cousin of the academic and novelist Coral Lansbury whose son Malcolm Turnbull was Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018 222 As a young actress Lansbury was a self professed homebody 223 who commented that she loved housekeeping 224 She preferred to spend quiet evenings with her friends inside her house because she did not like to engage in Hollywood nightlife 225 Her hobbies at the time included reading riding playing tennis cooking and playing the piano she also had a keen interest in gardening 226 She cited F Scott Fitzgerald as her favourite author 227 and Roseanne and Seinfeld among her favourite television shows 228 In 1990 she cited her favourite female actors as being Meryl Streep Glenn Close and Shirley MacLaine with her favourite male actors as Sean Connery Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks 229 Lansbury was an avid letter writer who wrote letters by hand and made copies of all of them 230 At Howard Gotlieb s request Lansbury s papers are housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University 231 Lansbury brought up her children as Episcopalians but they were not members of a congregation 232 She stated I believe that God is within all of us that we are perfect precious beings and that we have to put our faith and trust in that 232 She supported Britain s Labour Party to which she had family ties 191 and the U S Democratic Party she described herself as a Democrat from the ground up to quash online rumours that she endorsed the Republican Party 233 She also supported various charities particularly those combating domestic abuse and rehabilitating drug users 234 In the 1980s she also supported charities combating HIV AIDS 235 Lansbury was a chain smoker in early life 227 but quit smoking in the mid 1960s 236 In 1976 and 1987 she underwent cosmetic surgery on her neck to prevent it from broadening with age 237 During the 1990s she began to suffer from arthritis 238 Lansbury underwent hip replacement surgery in May 1994 238 followed by knee replacement surgery in 2005 239 Honours and legacy EditMain article List of awards and nominations received by Angela Lansbury In a career stretching from ingenue to dowager from elegant heroine to depraved villainess Lansbury has displayed durability and flexibility as well as a highly admired work ethic The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance 2010 240 In the 1960s The New York Times referred to Lansbury as the First Lady of Musical Theatre 241 Lansbury described herself as an actress who also could sing 241 although in her early film appearances her singing was repeatedly dubbed 242 Sondheim stated that she had a strong voice albeit with a limited range 243 In The Oxford Companion to the American Musical Thomas S Hischak related that Lansbury was more a character actress than a leading lady for much of her career one who brought a sparkling stage presence to her work 242 Gottfried described her as an American icon 209 while the BBC characterized her as one of Britain s favourite exports 208 and The Independent suggested that she could be considered Britain s most successful actress 244 In The Guardian journalist Mark Lawson described her as a member of the acting aristocracy in three countries Britain Ireland and the United States 195 Gottfried noted that Lansbury s public image was practically saintly 245 A 2007 interviewer for The New York Times described her as one of the few actors it makes sense to call beloved noting that a 1994 article in People magazine awarded her a perfect score on its lovability index 173 The New Statesman commented that she has the kind of pulling power many younger and more ubiquitous actors can only dream of 190 Lansbury was a gay icon 77 246 She described herself as being very proud of the fact attributing her popularity among gay people to her performance in Mame 77 an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer suggested that Murder She Wrote had further broadened her appeal with that demographic 247 Following the announcement of Lansbury s death many figures in the entertainment industry praised her on social media 248 The actor Jason Alexander called her one of the most versatile talented graceful kind witty wise classy ladies he had ever met 249 Actor Uzo Aduba called her an icon of the stage while actor Josh Gad noted that it was rare that one person can touch multiple generations creating a breadth of work that defines decade after decade Angela Lansbury was that artist 248 Screenwriter and actor Mark Gatiss praised Lansbury as the very definition of a pro while Douglas C Baker the producing director for Center Theatre Group stated that Angela was a titan of show business but at the same time she was one of the most kind and approachable people you would ever meet Impeccably professional genuine and deeply hilarious 250 Former Walt Disney Studios CEO Robert Iger described her a consummate professional a talented actress and a lovely person 251 Others who posted in remembrance of Lansbury included Kristin Chenoweth Viola Davis Jesse Tyler Ferguson Harvey Fierstein Kathy Griffin Jeremy O Harris Brent Spiner George Takei and Rachel Zegler 251 252 250 Lansbury s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles Lansbury was recognised for her achievements in Britain on multiple occasions In 2002 the British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAFTA gave Lansbury a Lifetime Achievement Award 253 Lansbury was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE in the 1994 Birthday Honours 253 and subsequently was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire DBE in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to drama charitable work and philanthropy 254 On being made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle Lansbury stated I m joining a marvellous group of women I greatly admire like Judi Dench and Maggie Smith It s a lovely thing to be given that nod of approval by your own country and I cherish it 254 Lansbury received Golden Globe 255 and People s Choice Awards for her television and film work 256 Lansbury never won an Emmy Award despite 18 nominations 17 of them Primetime Emmy Awards for which she was nominated over 33 years As of 2009 she held the record for the most unsuccessful Emmy nominations by a performer 257 258 She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress but never won reflecting on this in 2007 she stated that she was at first terribly disappointed but subsequently very glad that she did not win because she believed that she would have otherwise had a less successful career 259 In 2013 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors voted to bestow upon Lansbury an Honorary Academy Award for her lifetime achievements in the industry The actors Emma Thompson and Geoffrey Rush offered tributes at the Governors Awards where the ceremony was held and Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies presented her with the Oscar stating that Angela has been adding class talent beauty and intelligence to the movies since 1944 260 The Oscar statue is inscribed To Angela Lansbury an icon who has created some of cinema s most memorable characters inspiring generations of actors 261 Bibliography EditLansbury Angela Avins Mimi 1990 Angela Lansbury s Positive Moves My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well Being New York Delacorte Press ISBN 978 0 385 30223 4 See also Edit Biography portal Film portal Music portal Theatre 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