The Legendary Angela Lansbury
How one lady touched generations and won five Tonys.
On October 11, 2022, Angela Lansbury (96) transitioned to eternity and the world has lost a beautiful soul that many brought her joyous and beautiful spirit into our homes via “Murder She Wrote” for almost a decade. She was nominated for a dozen of Emmys but never won who adored her adoring fans. She was a star on the Broadway stage, on television, and in film.
Lansbury has won many Tony Awards and had an acting career that spanned more than seventy-five years. What a career from age seventeen until recently, not too many actresses other than the late Betty White can claim such an accolade.
In 1968, Lansbury received a standing ovation for her successful run on Broadway in “Mame’ and its opening in Los Angeles (1968). While television sent her to a new type of fame by becoming a household name, her first love was the theater.
Her first two films included “Gaslight” (1944) and “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1945) which she garnered Academy Awards nominations. For “The Manchurian Candidate” film (1962), she received a third nomination. Adored by all, in 2013, she was given an honorary Oscar at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards. She appeared in 36 movies and nearly as many teleplays.
