Angela Lansbury, Broadway star and spunky detective in 'Murder, She Wrote,' dies at 96
Angela Lansbury, a Tony Award-winning actress who conquered Broadway in the glamorous roles movie studios never gave her and captured television viewers as the star of the hit series “Murder, She Wrote,” has died at her home in Los Angeles.
A third nomination came for her portrayal of the malevolent mother in “The Manchurian Candidate” , which is often called her finest film performance. Lansbury once said that she had “relished” acting so evil. Critic Rex Reed declared that she brought “the Broadway stage about as close to an MGM musical as the Broadway stage is likely to get,” according to the 1996 biography “Angela Lansbury.”
At 83, she tied the record for most Tony Awards won for acting when she received a fifth for portraying a medium in the 2009 revival of “Blithe Spirit.” Lansbury reprised the role in 2014, when she returned to the stage. Angela Brigid Lansbury was born Oct. 16, 1925, in London into a family used to playing to a crowd. Her mother, Moyna MacGill, was a noted Irish-born stage actress, and her grandfather, George Lansbury, led the British Labor Party in the early 1930s. Her maternal grandfather directed the Belfast Opera.From her mother’s first marriage, Lansbury had a half-sister, Isolde, who became the first wife of actor Peter Ustinov.
When Louis B. Mayer saw her screen test, he said, “Sign that girl — she’s got talent,” Lansbury later recounted. She was given a seven-year contract. A first marriage, at 19, to an actor 15 years her senior ended months after they wed, though they remained friends for life. The couple, who became U.S. citizens in 1951, lived in Encino and had a son, Anthony Peter, in 1952. Daughter Deirdre Angela arrived a year later. Shaw also had a son, David, from his first marriage. Lansbury is survived by her two children and numerous grandchildren.
In 1966, Lansbury opened in New York in “Mame” and played the part for two years before appearing in traveling productions in Los Angeles and San Francisco., who died in 2009, became a close friend after co-starring in “Mame.” She called Lansbury “a class act” who had “a mouth like a longshoreman,” Arthur told the Independent of London in 2003.
For a decade, she and Shaw commuted to London and New York, and her son and daughter recovered from their addictions. Years later, she expressed guilt over having been away from home so much.
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