|
|
Post by spiderwort on Oct 2, 2019 22:43:56 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, who 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? |
|
|
|
Post by hugobolso on Oct 3, 2019 14:07:24 GMT
Death on the Nile and Bedknobs and Broomsticks
|
|
|
|
Post by therealcomicman117 on Oct 17, 2019 16:10:34 GMT
Happy one-day birthday. One of my absolute favorite actresses. Fascinating career too. Her family went to Hollywood to escape the blitz in the wake of World War II, and thus she started her acting career in Hollywood, as opposed to the stage, unlike so many of her British contemporaries. She wasn't really a leading actress during the Golden Age (she had few lead roles), but what a fabulous performer she was, regardless.
Some of my favorites include The Manchurian Candidate, Bedsticks and Broomsticks, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The World of Henry Orient. My mom was also a big fan of Murder She Wrote, though I wasn't much into it as a kid.
She also had a classic "Granny's face". She was actually only three years older then Laurence Harvey's mother in The Manchurian Candidate, and a decade older when she played Elvis's mother in Blue Hawaii.
|
|
|
|
Post by Martin Stett on Oct 17, 2019 17:14:30 GMT
Do we have a picture of Paul McCartney?
|
|
|
|
Post by quetee on Oct 17, 2019 19:12:41 GMT
Omg, she was a cute kid and you would be able to guess that was her.
I watch murder she wrote all the time and i was lucky i got to see her on Broadway.
|
|
|
|
Post by therealcomicman117 on Oct 18, 2019 16:14:47 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  !). 94, and she's still kicking, alive, and being awesome. Very active on twitter too. I absolutely adored her brief role in Mary Poppins Returns. I hope she lives an eternity, she's awesome. |
|
|
|
Post by PromNightCarrie on Oct 22, 2019 16:55:03 GMT
I love that pic of her as a kid.  And Angela Lansbury is an acting treasure. |
|
|
|
Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 23, 2019 0:08:49 GMT
I loved her in Wings.
|
|
|
|
Post by quetee on Oct 16, 2020 22:58:44 GMT
Happy 95th  |
|
|
|
Post by TerryMontana on Oct 17, 2020 13:15:46 GMT
Happy birthday to a great Lady!
|
|
cherry68
Based
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.
Posts: 3,682 
Likes: 2,114
|
Post by cherry68 on Oct 17, 2020 17:35:48 GMT
95 years young!
|
|
!).
