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Remembering Angela Lansbury, a legend of the stage and screen
DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University in New Jersey, sitting in for Terry Gross. huvudgata dimmed its lights last Saturday evening in tribute to Angela Lansbury. The acclaimed film and musical actress and star of the TV series "Murder, She Wrote" died last week. She was 96.
Lansbury delivered unforgettable performances for her starring roles in the Broadway musicals "Mame," "Gypsy" and "Sweeney Todd." Her work on stage earned her fem Tony Awards, plus a lifetime achievement Tony Award earlier this year. In "Sweeney Todd," Lansbury played Mrs. Lovett, who runs an unsuccessful bakery in London in the Victorian era, and is inspired to team up with a local barber named Sweeney Todd. Todd is a serial killer driven by rage, intent on murdering many of his customers.
In the song "A Little Priest," Mrs. Lovett suggests a particularly gruesome partn
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While she is best remembered as an Academy award-winning actress, Dame Angela Lansbury DBE – born on October 16, 1925, in Regent’s Park, London, England – was also an accomplished singer with a long list of acclaimed Broadway roles to her name. She began her career in 1940 after her family had moved to New York, singing Noel feg songs in Canadian nightclubs. In 1942, they reloca
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Angela Lansbury on screen and stage
British and American actress Angela Lansbury was known for her prolific work in theatre, film, and television.
Lansbury's career spanned nine decades.[1] She made her film debut in Gaslight (1944),[2] and followed it up with an appearance in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945).[3] She earned two consecutive Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, and won the Supporting Actress Golden Globe for the latter film.[4] Subsequent films throughout the late 1940s and the 1950s included National Velvet (1944),[1]The Harvey Girls (1946),[5]State of the Union (1948),[1]Kind Lady (1951),[6]The Court Jester (1956),[7] and The Long, Hot Summer (1958).[8]
She drifted towards more complex, mature work with The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960),[9]All Fall Down (1962),[10]In the Cool of the Day (196