Angela Lansbury

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was a British-Irish American actress, producer, and comedian. In a career spanning 80 years, she played various roles on stage and screen. Among her numerous accolades were five Tony Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, 18 Primetime Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Grammy Award. She was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000, the Academy Honorary Award in 2013.

Lansbury was born into an upper-middle-class family in central London, the daughter of Irish actress Moyna Macgill and English politician Edgar Lansbury. To escape the Blitz, she moved to the United States in 1940, studying acting in New York City. Proceeding to Hollywood in 1942, she signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Despite being largely seen as a B-list star, she received three Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nominations for her roles in Gaslight (1944), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), and The Manchurian Candidate (1962).

She transitioned her career to Broadway where she won five Tony Awards; four for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances in Mame (1966), Dear World (1969), Gypsy (1975), Sweeney Todd (1979), followed by a win for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Blithe Spirit (2009). She was Tony-nominated for her roles in Deuce (2007) and A Little Night Music (2010). She won the Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 2022.

On television, she achieved worldwide fame as the sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the CBS whodunit series Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996), for which she was nominated for 12 consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The series is one of the longest-running and most popular detective drama series in television history. She also acted in films such as Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Death on the Nile (1978), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Anastasia (1997), Nanny McPhee (2005) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).

Early life and career beginnings

Childhood: 1925–1942

Angela Brigid Lansbury was born to an upper-middle-class family on October 16, 1925.Template:Sfnm Although her birthplace has often been given as Poplar, East London,Template:Sfn she rejected this, stating that while she had ancestral connections to Poplar, she was born in Regent's Park, central London.Template:Efn 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.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm Her paternal grandfather was the Labour Party leader George Lansbury, a man whom she felt "awed" by and considered "a giant in my youth".Template:Sfnm Angela had an older half-sister, Isolde, from Macgill's previous marriage to Reginald Denham.Template:Sfnm 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; at weekends, they would stay at a farm in Berrick Salome, Oxfordshire.Template:Sfnm

When Lansbury was nine, her father died from stomach cancer; she retreated into playing characters as a coping mechanism.Template:Sfnm Facing financial difficulty, her mother entered a relationship with a Scottish colonel, Leckie Forbes, and moved into his house in Hampstead. Lansbury then received an education at South Hampstead High School from 1934 until 1939,Template:Sfnm where she was a contemporary of Glynis Johns.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She nevertheless considered herself largely self-educated, learning from books, theatre and cinema.Template:Sfnm Lansbury became a self-professed "complete movie maniac", visiting the cinema regularly.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfnm

That year, Lansbury'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.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm 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 an apartment on Morton Street, Greenwich Village.Template:Sfnm

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.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm Befriending a group of gay men, Lansbury became privy to the city's underground gay scene.Template:Sfn With her mother, she attended lectures by the spiritual guru Jiddu Krishnamurti - at one of these, meeting the writer Aldous Huxley.Template:Sfn

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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.Template:Sfnm Obtaining an agent, Earl Kramer, she was signed to a seven-year contract with MGM, earning $500 a week.Template:Sfnm Gaslight received critical acclaim, and Lansbury's performance was widely praised, earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.Template:Sfnm

Her next film appearance was as Edwina Brown in National Velvet (1944); the film became a major commercial success and Lansbury developed a lifelong friendship with co-star Elizabeth Taylor.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm

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.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm Returning to the US, they settled into Lansbury's home in Rustic Canyon, Malibu.Template:Sfnm In 1951, the couple both became naturalized US citizens, albeit retaining their British citizenship via dual nationality.Template:Sfnm

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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.Template:Sfn This view was echoed by Cukor, who believed Lansbury had been "consistently miscast" by MGM.Template:Sfn She was repeatedly made to portray older women, often villainous, and as a result she 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."Template:Sfn The company was suffering from the post-1948 slump in cinema sales, as a result slashing film budgets and cutting their number of staff.Template:Sfn

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;Template:Sfnm her singing was dubbed by Virginia Reese.Template:Sfn 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). Lansbury 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).Template:Sfnm She appeared as a villainous maidservant in Kind Lady (1951) and a French adventuress in Mutiny (1952).Template:Sfnm Turning to radio, in 1948, Lansbury 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.Template:Sfn Moving into television, she appeared in a 1950 episode of Robert Montgomery Presents adapted from A.J. Cronin's The Citadel.Template:Sfn

Mid-career

The Manchurian Candidate and minor roles: 1952–1965

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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.Template:Sfn That same year, she gave birth to her first child, Anthony.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm Biographer Margaret Bonanno later stated that at this point, Lansbury's career had "hit an all-time low".Template:Sfn In April 1953, her daughter Deirdre Angela Shaw was born.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm 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."Template:Sfn In 1959, the family moved to Malibu, settling into a house that had been designed by Aaron Green on the Pacific Coast Highway; there, she and Peter escaped the Hollywood scene, and sent their children to public school.Template:Sfnm

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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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."Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm Biographer Martin Gottfried has claimed that it was these latter two cinematic appearances which restored Lansbury's status as an "A-picture actress."Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfnm

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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."Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfn

After a well-reviewed appearance in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959) – for which she had filmed in Australia – 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,Template:Sfnm just ten years her junior. Although believing that the film was of poor quality, she commented that she agreed to appear in it because she "was desperate".Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm 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".Template:Sfn Biographers Edelman and Kupferberg considered this role "her enduring cinematic triumph,"Template:Sfn 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."Template:Sfn Lansbury received her third Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination for the film.Template:Sfnm

She followed this with a performance as Sybil Logan in In the Cool of the Day (1963) – a film she denounced as awful – before appearing as wealthy Isabel Boyd in The World of Henry Orient (1964) and the widow Phyllis in Dear Heart (1964).Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm She appeared in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), a cinematic biopic of Jesus, but was cut almost entirely from the final edit.Template:Sfnm 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).Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfn

Mame and theatrical stardom: 1966–1969

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.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm First appearing in Philadelphia and then Boston, Mame opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in May 1966.Template:Sfnm Auntie Mame was already popular among the gay community,Template:Sfn 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."<ref name="gayicon">Template:Cite news</ref>

Reviews of Lansbury's performance were overwhelmingly positive.Template:Sfn 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."<ref>Kauffmann, Stanley (May 25, 1966). "Theatre: Mame Is Back with a Splash as Musical". The New York Times. p. 41.</ref> The role resulted in Lansbury receiving her first Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical.Template:SfnmTemplate:Sfn Lansbury's later biographer Margaret Bonanno claimed that Mame made Lansbury a "superstar",Template:Sfn 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."Template:Sfn

Off the stage, Lansbury made further television appearances, such as on Perry Como's Thanksgiving Special in November 1966.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn That year, Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Club elected her "Woman of the Year".Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfnm Lansbury considered this to be "one of my bitterest disappointments".Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfnm

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.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm Lansbury later described the play as "a complete and utter fiasco", admitting that in her opinion, her "performance was awful".Template:Sfn

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, because she was not satisfied with them.Template:Sfn 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 Hohenschwangau, Bavaria.Template:Sfnm That same year, she appeared as the middle-aged English witch Eglantine 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.Template:Sfnm She later noted that as a big commercial success, this film "secured an enormous audience for me".Template:Sfn

The year 1970 was a traumatic one 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.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm He subsequently enrolled in the Webber-Douglas School, his mother's alma mater, and became a professional actor, before moving into television directing.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfn

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.Template:Sfnm This was followed by her reluctant involvement in a revival of Mame, which was then touring the United States,Template:Sfnm 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. When the show started in May 1973, Lansbury earned a standing ovation and rave reviews.Template:Sfnm Settling into a Belgravia flat, she was soon in demand among London society, having dinners held in her honour.Template:Sfn Following the culmination of the London run, in 1974 Gypsy toured the US; 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.Template:Sfnm After several months' break, Gypsy toured the US again in the summer of 1975.Template:Sfn

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 and received mixed reviews. Lansbury disliked the role, later commenting that she found it "very trying playing restrained roles" such as Gertrude.Template:Sfnm Her mood was worsened by her mother's death in November 1975.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm This was followed by another revival tour of Gypsy.Template:Sfn

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.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm

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,Template:Sfnm commenting that she loved "the extraordinary wit and intelligence of his lyrics."Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfnm She returned to the role in October 1980 for a ten-month US tour; the production was also filmed and broadcast on the Entertainment Channel.Template:Sfnm

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.Template:Sfnm That year, Lansbury was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame,Template:Sfn and the following year appeared in a Mame revival at Broadway's Gershwin Theatre. Although Lansbury was praised, the revival was a commercial failure, with Lansbury noting: "I realised that it's not a show of today. It's a period piece."Template:Sfnm

Working in cinema, in 1979 Lansbury appeared as Miss Froy in The Lady Vanishes, a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm Lansbury's next film was the animated The Last Unicorn (1982), for which she provided the voice of the witch Mommy Fortuna.Template:Sfnm

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.Template:Sfnm This was followed by an appearance as the grandmother in Gothic fantasy film The Company of Wolves (1984).Template:Sfnm Lansbury had also begun work for television, appearing in a 1982 television film with Bette Davis titled Little Gloria... Happy at Last.Template:Sfnm 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."Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfnm Two further miniseries featuring Lansbury appeared in 1984: Lace and The First Olympics: Athens 1896.Template:Sfnm

Global fame

Murder, She Wrote: 1984–2003

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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, Murder, She Wrote. As she was unable to do both, her agents advised her to accept the former, but Lansbury chose the latter.Template:Sfnm Her decision was based on the appeal of the series' central character, Jessica Fletcher, a retired school teacher from the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine. As portrayed by Lansbury, Fletcher was a successful detective novelist who also solved murders encountered during her travels.Template:Sfnm Lansbury described the character as "an American Miss Marple".Template:Sfn

Murder, She Wrote 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.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfn Designed as inoffensive family viewing, as despite its topic the show eschewed depicting violence or gore, it followed the "whodunit" format rather than those of most US crime shows of the time.Template:Sfn Lansbury herself commented that "best of all, there's no violence. I hate violence."Template:Sfn

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 woman.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfn 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."Template:Sfn Edelman and Kupferberg described the series as "a television landmark" in the US for having an older female character as the protagonist, paving the way for later series like The Golden Girls.Template:Sfn Lansbury commented that "I think it's the first time a show has really been aimed at the middle aged audience",Template:Sfn and although it was most popular among senior citizens, it gradually gained a younger audience; by 1991, a third of viewers were under fifty.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn In 1987, a spin-off was produced, The Law & Harry McGraw, although it proved short-lived.Template:Sfn

As Murder, She Wrote went on, Lansbury assumed a larger role behind the scenes.Template:Sfn In 1989, her own company, Corymore Productions, began co-producing the show with Universal.Template:Sfnm Lansbury began to tire of the series, and in particular the long working hours, stating that the 1990–1991 season would be its last.Template:Sfn She changed her mind after being appointed executive producer for the 1992–1993 season, something that she felt "made it far more interesting to me."Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfnm Having become a "Sunday-night institution" in the US, the show's ratings improved during the early 1990s, becoming a Top Five programme.Template:Sfn

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Lansbury photographed in 2000 at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC

For the show's 12th season, CBS executives moved Murder, She Wrote to Thursdays at 8 pm, opposite NBC's new sitcom, Friends. Lansbury was upset by the move, believing that it ignored the show's core audience.Template:Sfnm This would prove to be the series' final season. The final episode aired on May 19, 1996, and ended with Lansbury voicing a "Goodbye from Jessica" message.Template:Sfn In The Washington Post, Tom Shales suggested that the series had become "partly a victim of commercial television's mad youth mania".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> There were "vocal protests" at its cancellation from the show's fanbase.Template:Sfn At the time, it tied the original Hawaii Five-O as the longest-running detective drama series in history.Template:Sfn

Lansbury initially had plans for a Murder, She Wrote television film that would be a musical with a score composed by Jerry Herman;Template:Sfn that project did not materialize but resulted in the 1996 television film Mrs. Santa Claus, with Lansbury playing the eponymous character, which proved to be a ratings success.Template:Sfnm 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.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The role of Fletcher would prove the most successful and prominent of Lansbury's career,Template:Sfn and she would later speak critically of attempts to reboot the series with a different actress in the lead.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Throughout the run of Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury had continued appearing in other television films, miniseries and cinema.Template:Sfn In 1986, she co-hosted the New York Philharmonic's televised tribute to the centenary of the Statue of Liberty with Kirk Douglas.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> That same year, she appeared as the protagonist's mother in Rage of Angels: The Story Continues,Template:Sfn and in 1988 portrayed Nan Moore – the mother of a victim of the real-life Korean Air Lines Flight 007 plane crash – in Shootdown.Template:Sfn 1989 saw her featured in The Shell Seekers as an Englishwoman recuperating from a heart attack,Template:Sfn 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."Template:Sfn She 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.Template:Sfnm 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, as part of which she performed the film's title song. She considered the appearance to be a gift for her three grandchildren.Template:Sfnm Lansbury again lent her voice to an animated character, this time that of the Empress Dowager, for the 1997 film Anastasia.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfnm

Final years: 2003–2022

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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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Peter died in January 2003 of congestive heart failure at the couple's Brentwood home.<ref name="Shaw"/> Lansbury felt that after this she would not take on any more major acting roles, perhaps only making cameo appearances.<ref name=green>Template:Cite web</ref> Wanting to spend more time in New York City, in 2006 she purchased a $2 million condominium in Manhattan.<ref name=green/><ref name="Thorpe"/>

Lansbury appeared in a season six episode of the television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2005.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name="Thorpe">Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Lansbury received a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her role.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The role earned her a seventh Tony Award nomination.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In May 2010, she was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Manhattan School of Music.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She then appeared in the 2011 film Mr. Popper's Penguins, opposite Jim Carrey.<ref>Template:Cite web.</ref>

From March 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> From February 2013, she starred alongside James Earl Jones in an Australian tour of Driving Miss Daisy,<ref name=daisy>Template:Cite web</ref> an appearance that resulted in her pulling out from a scheduled role in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In November 2013, she received an Academy Honorary Award for her lifetime achievement at the Governors Awards.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2014, Lansbury was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> From March 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> While in London, she made an appearance at the Angela Lansbury Film Festival, a screening of some of her films in Poplar.Template:Sfn<ref name="Louise Jury">Template:Cite web</ref> From December 2014 to March 2015 she joined the tour of Blithe Spirit across North America.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In April 2015 she received her first Olivier Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Arcati,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and in November 2015 was awarded the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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 College in 2017.<ref name="Lawson"/> Her next role was as Aunt March in the BBC miniseries Little Women, screened in December 2017.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2018, she appeared in the family film Buttons: A Christmas Tale,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> That year also saw the release of animated film The Grinch, for which Lansbury voiced the Mayor of Whoville.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In November 2019, she returned 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Lansbury made her final film appearance, a cameo role as herself, in the 2022 film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lansbury died in her sleep at her home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on October 11, 2022, at the age of 96.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Personal life

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Lansbury on stage in Driving Miss Daisy in 2013

Lansbury defined herself as being "Irish-British".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She became a US citizen in 1951, while retaining her British citizenship.Template:Sfnm According to a 2014 article in the Irish Independent, she also held Irish citizenship.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Although adopting an Americanized accent for roles like that of Fletcher, Lansbury retained her English accent throughout her life.<ref name="BBCNews"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Lansbury was a profoundly private person,Template:Sfn and disliked attempts at flattery.Template:Sfn Gottfried characterized her as being "Meticulous. Cautious. Self-editing. Deliberate. It is what the British call reserved".Template:Sfn In The Daily Telegraph, the theatre critic Dominic Cavendish stated that Lansbury's hallmarks were "self-composure, commitment and, yes, gentility", approaches he thought had become "in too short supply" in modern times.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Gottfried also commented that she was "as concerned, as sensitive, and as sympathetic as anyone might want in a friend".Template:Sfn

Lansbury was married twice. Her first marriage was to actor Richard Cromwell and lasted from 1945 to 1946.Template:Sfnm In 1949, Lansbury married actor and producer Peter Shaw, and they remained married until he died in 2003.<ref name="Shaw">Template:Cite magazine</ref> 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.Template:Sfn

Anthony became a television director and directed 68 episodes of Murder, She Wrote.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Deirdre married a chef, and together they opened a restaurant in West Los Angeles.Template:Sfnm Lansbury had three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren at the time of her death in 2022.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lansbury was a cousin of the Postgate family, including the animator and activist Oliver Postgate.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She was also a cousin of the actor Kate (Geraghty) Lansbury,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and of the novelist Coral Lansbury, whose son Malcolm Turnbull was Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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Lansbury photographed in 2013

As a young actress, Lansbury was a self-professed homebody,Template:Sfn who commented that she loved housekeeping.Template:Sfn She preferred to spend quiet evenings with her friends inside her house because she did not like to engage in Hollywood nightlife.Template:Sfnm Her hobbies at the time included reading, riding, playing tennis, cooking, and playing the piano; she also had a keen interest in gardening.Template:Sfnm She cited F. Scott Fitzgerald as her favourite author,Template:Sfn and Roseanne and Seinfeld among her favourite television shows.Template:Sfn Lansbury was an avid letter writer who wrote letters by hand and made copies of all of them.Template:Sfn At Howard Gotlieb's request, Lansbury's papers are housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Lansbury brought up her children as Episcopalians, but they were not members of a congregation.Template:Sfn 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."Template:Sfn She supported Britain's Labour Party, to which she had family ties,<ref name="Louise Jury"/> and the US Democratic Party; she described herself as a "Democrat from the ground up" to quash online rumours that she endorsed the Republican Party.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She also supported various charities, particularly those combating domestic abuse and rehabilitating drug users.Template:Sfnm In the 1980s, she also supported charities combating HIV/AIDS.Template:Sfn

Lansbury was a chain smoker in early life,Template:Sfn but quit smoking in the mid-1960s.Template:Sfn In 1976 and 1987, she underwent cosmetic surgery on her neck to prevent it from broadening with age.Template:Sfn During the 1990s, she began to suffer from arthritis.Template:Sfn Lansbury underwent hip replacement surgery in May 1994,Template:Sfn followed by knee replacement surgery in 2005.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Honours and legacy

In the 1960s, The New York Times referred to Lansbury as the "First Lady of Musical Theatre".Template:Sfn She described herself as an actress who also could sing,Template:Sfn although in her early film appearances her singing was repeatedly dubbed;Template:Sfn Sondheim stated that she had a strong voice, albeit with a limited range.Template:Sfn In The Oxford Companion to the American Musical, Thomas 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".Template:Sfn Gottfried described her as "an American icon",Template:Sfn while the BBC characterized her as "one of Britain's favourite exports,"<ref name="BBCNews">Template:Cite web</ref> and The Independent suggested that she could be considered Britain's most successful actress.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In The Guardian, journalist Mark Lawson described her as a member of the "acting aristocracy in three countries" – Britain, Ireland, and the United States.<ref name="Lawson">Template:Cite web</ref>

Gottfried noted that Lansbury's public image was "practically saintly".Template:Sfn 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".<ref name=green/> The New Statesman commented that she "has the kind of pulling power many younger and more ubiquitous actors can only dream of."Template:Sfn Lansbury was a gay icon.<ref name="gayicon"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She described herself as being "very proud of the fact", attributing her popularity among gay people to her performance in Mame;<ref name="gayicon"/> an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer suggested that Murder, She Wrote had further broadened her appeal with that demographic.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Following the announcement of Lansbury's death, many figures in the entertainment industry praised her on social media.<ref name="skynews">Template:Cite web</ref> The actor Jason Alexander called her "one of the most versatile, talented, graceful, kind, witty, wise, classy ladies" he had ever met.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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".<ref name="skynews"/> 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."<ref name="LAT">Template:Cite web</ref> Former Walt Disney Studios CEO Robert Iger described her "a consummate professional, a talented actress, and a lovely person."<ref name="huff2022">Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name="huff2022"/><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="LAT"/> On October 12 theatres across the West End of London, dimmed their lights for two minutes to mark Lansbury's passing.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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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 her a Lifetime Achievement Award.Template:Sfn She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1994 Birthday Honours,Template:Sfn 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.<ref name="Dame">Template:Cite web</ref> 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."<ref name="Dame"/>

Lansbury won six Golden Globe Awards and a People's Choice Awards for her television and film work.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>"Angela Lansbury Golden Globe History – 15 Nomination(s), 6 Win(s)" Template:Webarchive, goldenglobes.org. Retrieved April 15, 2011.</ref> She never won an Emmy Award despite 18 nominations. As of 2009, she held the record for the most unsuccessful Emmy nominations by a performer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref name="Kilday">Template:Cite news</ref> The Oscar statue is inscribed: "To Angela Lansbury, an icon who has created some of cinema's most memorable characters inspiring generations of actors".<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>

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