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Post by spiderwort on Oct 4, 2019 0:22:36 GMT
 Yes, she can do it ALL! Act, dance, sing, theater, film, television. She's had a fantastic career. She received an Oscar nomination for her debut role, playing a young, precocious maid in Gaslight (1945).  She played a teenager next in National Velvet (1944). 
After that she played a string of more mature roles in films like State of the Union (1948) when she was still quite young.  And later she played Laurence Harvey's mother in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), one of her most brilliant and iconic performances.  A truly gifted actress, she will be remembered for so many things through the years, including her roles in Mame and Sweeney Todd on Broadway. She'll be 94 next month and is still working - as of last year anyway! I just wanted to add one special title: the little seen but lovely film, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960), in which she had a relatively small part, but it was one of those she was most proud of in all her career. 
I once had the good fortune to ask her husband, Peter Shaw, to tell his wife how much I loved her as Mavis Pruitt in that film. He immediately broke into an enormous grin and said that she loved that role and her work in the film and that she would be so glad to know that someone had seen and loved her in it, too. Sometime later I watched Robert Osborne interview her on TCM, and she told him the same thing. Your thoughts, comments, favorite performances?
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Post by politicidal on Oct 4, 2019 0:54:11 GMT
*ahem* That's Dame Angela Lansbury, I do believe!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 4, 2019 1:03:07 GMT
1964 . THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT  One her wonderful TRULY truly awful mother roles ….  Totally odious woman … TERRIFIC ROLE ! This great actress makes you really hate her ! She did get to glam it up for a change !  |
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Post by Catman on Oct 4, 2019 1:05:03 GMT
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 4, 2019 1:08:02 GMT
*ahem* That's Dame Angela Lansbury, I do believe!
Oh, yes indeed! Thanks for the reminder, and I will correct my thread title!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 4, 2019 1:09:16 GMT
Many of her colleagues from her feature films were guests on her long running television series.... including Hurd Hatfield (The Picture of Dorian Gray).  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 4, 2019 1:10:40 GMT
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 4, 2019 1:10:43 GMT
Many of her colleagues from her feature films were guests on her long running television series.... including Hurd Hatfield (The Picture of Dorian Grey).
Yes, bat, and in most cases she made sure they were hired so they could maintain their SAG memberships and insurance. What a lovely thing for her to do!
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Post by biker1 on Oct 4, 2019 5:20:57 GMT
top 5 roles..
the picture of dorian gray (1945)
the manchurian candidate (1962)
gaslight (1964)
samson and delilah (1949)
the company of wolves (1984-uk)
She plays a duplicitous femme fatale in zero budget noir film please murder me! (1956) opposite Raymond Burr, but it isn't a convincing role for her.
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Post by kijii on Oct 4, 2019 6:04:43 GMT
Spider-- After reading your thread about Linda Ronstadt, I saw The Pirates of Penzance (1983) for the first time last week. Angela Landbury was GREAT in that movie. I didn't know she could be so funny, as Ruth.  Of course, I we both love Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960). and I still hold out hope that this movie can be fully restored for DVD release. If not, it will be the only William Inge play-based movie that didn't make it. Maybe you can talk Angela Lansbury or Shirley Knight into this project....with UCLA, maybe? (Note the poor video quality, below, compared to other images in this posting.) That could be because it was never restored?............ |
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Post by teleadm on Oct 4, 2019 17:30:23 GMT
 The Court Jester 1956, and please don't snap your fingers again, with Danny Kaye  Much better than Randolph Scott's usual co-stars, A Lawless Street 1955.  Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1971 offcourse .and many many more
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Post by petrolino on Oct 5, 2019 1:10:23 GMT
"Tom Bosley was the most warm and loving individual in real life as well, he was just a terrific person to work with."
- Angela Lansbury
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Post by Geddy on Oct 5, 2019 16:51:28 GMT
One of the greatest actresses that ever lived. Long may she reign.
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Post by teleadm on Oct 5, 2019 17:00:55 GMT
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Post by marshamae on Oct 5, 2019 23:23:39 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 5, 2019 23:48:13 GMT
Tom Bosley's second feature film appearance was as Angela's unfortunate husband in THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT  before they appeared together on Murder She Wrote |
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Post by teleadm on Oct 16, 2019 7:03:32 GMT
Happy 94th Birthday Dame Angela Lansbury !!!  |
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 16, 2019 15:00:24 GMT
Born on October 16, 1925,
HAPPY 94TH BIRTHDAY, DAME ANGELA LANSBURY!! You are a treasure forever! Thank you for the wonderful memories, and for giving so much joy to so many over the years.
Here, appearing in her 2018 film, BUTTONS, with Dick Van Dyke (she was only 93 then  !).
( teleadm , thanks for the wonderful interview you posted above.)
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