Angela Lansbury

Angela Brigid Lansbury is a British actress born on October 16th 1925 with London with the the United Kingdom. Although today, it is famous for its role of Jessica Fletcher, the auteure of detective novels and detective amateur, in the series televised Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote), Angela Lansbury was distinguished in many productions Hollywood iennes like in several reviews and pieces of music with Broadway. Nowadays, it supports the cinematographic company Disney in manner undeniable while appearing as a guest or a narrator in emissions based on the Disney universe or by lending its voice to characters animated in many cartoons of the Company.

Biography

A difficult youth (1925-1944)

Angela Lansbury was born the October 16th 1925 close from Park Regents with London with the the United Kingdom. His/her mother is celebrates it Moyna Macgill, a very known actress of theater in London. His/her father, Edgar Lansbury, are a timber merchant. Small Angela is only 9 years old when his/her father dies of cancer. The family hearth is also composed of his/her two twin brothers (Edgar and Bruce) and of his Isolde half-sister.

During the Second world war, the threat of the bombardments Nazis on London obliges his/her mother to leave the country in 1942 in company of his/her children for the the United States. Seul Isolde remains with the the United Kingdom in company of her husband, the Acteur Peter Ustinov. Installed with New York with its family, Angela off follows courses in Feagin School Drama and Radio. After several voyages through the country, of which the goal is to find a " employment; raisonnable" , his/her mother contacts it since Los Angeles where she thinks of having found work not only for her but for her daughter. With Los Angeles, Angela and his/her mother unearth an employment in a large Bullocks-Wilshire shop for which Angela works in the ray of the cosmetics and its mother, in that of the toys.

The first successes (1944-1957)

In 1944, thanks to various circles of relations, his/her mother learns that the company from cinema MGM research an ingenuous English young girl to interpret good in the film Hantise ( Gaslight ) with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Angela passes hearing and signs a seven year old contract. Its service in this film was such as it was worth to him its first nomination with the Oscars. In its second film the portrait of Dorian Gray ( The Picture off Dorian Gray ), turned the same year by Albert Lewin, Angela Lansbury interprets Sybil Vane, a singer of Music-hall. Once again, with less than 21 years, it gained one second nomination with the Oscars for the best actress of supporting role. After the turning of its second film, she marries the actor Richard Cromwell which she divorces one year later. Its two nominations having given him a reputation of actress of supporting role of quality, Angela turns of many films where she interprets the second women in large productions Hollywood iennes such as the Young ladies Harvey , the Rain which sings ( Till the Clouds Roll By ) in 1946, Bel Friend ( The Private Affairs off Beautiful Friend ) in 1947 or the three musketeers ( The Three Musketeers ) in 1948 at the sides of Gene Kelly in which she interprets the queen Anne with brilliance.

In 1948, at the time of one evening organized by his/her large friend Hurd Hatfield, met on the film set of the film the portrait of Dorian Gray , Angela meets Peter Shaw which was him also Britannique and under contract with MGM. It is the love at first sight and Angela Marie the August 12th 1949. Her husband quickly becomes his business manager as one of the dignitaries of the Agency William Morris Talent.

In 1949, it turns in a biblical film Samson and Dalila ( Samson and Delilah ) which reinforces its image of actress of talent. On 1950 with 1955, Angela decides to be devoted to the Télévision. It is received as an artist invited in emissions such as Playhouse or Video Lux Theater where it passes from the comedy to the drama. In 1952, it gives rise to Anthony Shaw, its first child. A girl, Deirdre Angela Shaw, follows one year later. Spending most clearly its time at the house to deal with his/her children, the film sets become less and less numerous. Angela Lansbury succeeds in however turning in small business successes such as the rider to the mask ( The Purple Mask ) with Tony Curtis in 1955, the buffoon of the king ( The Court Jester ) with Danny Kaye in 1956 or fires of the summer ( Long The, Hot Summer ) with Paul Newman and Orson Welles in 1958.

Angela on the scene (1957-1970)

In 1957, it is contacted by Arthur Lawrence for a role in a musical review Hotel Paradiso . This first attempt at Angela in the musical productions shows a great success. Although Hotel Paradiso remains with the poster only very little time, it likes its theatrical experiment and she undertakes a second spectacle has off Taste Honey in 1960 then a third Anyone Can Whistle in 1964. Meanwhile, does it continues its cinematographic career connecting the comic roles of Mabel Clairmont in What mom include/understand with the love? ( The Reluctant Beginning ) in 1958 or the memorable mother of Elvis Presley in her film Under the blue sky of Hawaii ( Blue Hawaii ) in 1962. In 1962, it takes down a role in a police film a crime in the head ( The Mandchurian Candidate ) which is worth to him a third nomination with the Oscars. Angela then continues the scenic appearances on the boards of Broadway and those on big screen in films like Two girlfriends, a seducer ( The World off Henry Orient ) with Peter Sellers in 1964 or biblical film the Greatest History ever told ( The Greatest Story Ever Told ) in 1965 recalling the life of Jesus.

In 1966, the producer Jerry Hermann, proposes in Angela the review Mame , whose first the May 24th takes place. This spectacle receives an enormous success with Broadway where it remains a long time with the poster, which at that time explains the vacuum in the cinematographic career of Angela. It receives besides its first Tony Award for his interpretation in this high musical production colors. In 1969, it implies in another musical review Dear World with which it obtains a second Tony Award. However, the review does not prove with the height of Mame and Angela makes the decision to turn over near his, his/her son having problems of drug. In 1970, after the fire of their residence with Malibu, Angela and his/her husband choose to recross the Atlantic Ocean to settle definitively in Ireland, where they buy an old farm and some batches of ground in the County of Cork.

Angela eclipses with small (1971-1984)

The appearances on big screen of Angela Lansbury are done increasingly rare but it succeeds in making some appearances, in particular for a film of Disney Apprentie witch (Bedknobs and Broomsticks) in 1971. In this film, which takes again a little the concept of Mary Poppins (certain scenes comprise superpositions of images animated with real images), Angela Lansbury plays an eccentric and rather comic witch who tries to save her country of the invasion Nazi in the Forties. This comedy gains a sharp success with the the United States but also with the the United Kingdom where, in the Seventies, it makes only four films of which an adaptation of a novel of Agatha Christie Mort on the Nile (Death one the Nile), in 1978, as well as a remake of a film of Alfred Hitchcock a woman disappears (The Lady Vanishes) the following year. During the same time, thanks to a memorable service in the musical review Gypsy of Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim, Angela gains in 1975 a third Tony Award. In 1979, a fourth returns to him from right after success of the review Sweeney Todd, of the same director, in whom she interprets a sarcastic fatal woman and malfaisante. This piece of music is even carried to the small screen in 1982.

In 1980, Angela incarnates the very famous detective amateur Miss Marple in one second adaptation to the big screen of a novel of Agatha Christie the mirror broke (The Mirror Crack' d) in which it finds Elizabeth Taylor with which it had turned one of her very first films. To beginning of the year 80, it turns in some science fiction films or of the cartoons for children where it lends to its voice to characters sympathetic nerves as in the Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn) in 1982 or in the company of the wolves (The Company off Wolves) in 1984.

Arabesque (Murder She Wrote) (1984-1996)

In 1984, an event marks a turning of its career. Because of the successes gained by its unforgettable interpretations in police films, the American chain of Télévision CBS proposes to him to play the main role of a police series televised based on the resolution of crimes. At this point in time a true adventure for Angela Lansbury starts. Indeed, she will play the part of the very popular Jessica Fletcher of 1984 with 1996. To prevent it from leaving the plates of Television, one also makes him sign a contract declaring it producing series. Angela Lansbury will interpret this character, who today continues it unceasingly, with 264 recoveries, in the 264 episodes which compose the series, without counting the many televised films moreover long life, derived from the original series.

Angela and the empire Disney (1991 at our days)

In 1991, it joins again with the Disney company by lending its voice to Mrs Samovar (Potts Miss in English), an energetic teapot in the cartoon the Beautiful one and the Animal ( Beauty and the Beast ). The cartoon is a world real success and the song title receives a Oscar for the best film music. It takes again the role with the cartoon the Beautiful one and Animal 2: Magic Christmas ( Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas ) left only in video in 1997.

The same year, it is approached by the studios of the 20th Century Fox to lend its voice to the Marie empress in the feature-length film animated Anastasia .

In the years 1990, Angela forsakes little by little the Cinéma to devote itself to the Télévision. She plays there only in televised films family with for topic Christmas or the family relations such as All the dreams are allowed ( Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris ) in 1992, Mrs No5el ( Mrs Santa Claus ) in 1996 or Mrs Polifax ( The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax ), realized by his/her son, in 1999. In 2000, it is once more requested by Disney to present the last segment of the cartoon Fantasia 2000 . Since, it connects the televised appearances where it intervenes as a guest in variety shows or presenter and a narrator many Documentaire S or emissions devoted to the Histoire, in the world of the Cinéma or with the universe of Walt Disney. It formed part, for example, of the distribution of the very special Documentaire on the cartoon Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs ( Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ) produced at the time of the first exit of film in DVD in 2001. Today, it does not make any more that rare televised appearances is in police films, where it joins again with its role of Jessica Fletcher, that is to say in small minor productions. The January 29th 2003, Peter Shaw, her husband, dies of an heart attack, leaving Angela after more than 50 years of happiness. With more than 80 years, it piled up four nominations with the Oscars, four Tony Award S, 14 nominations for the Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe. It was anoblie by the queen and also received a special price for the whole of its career.

Incomplete catalog of films

Rewards

Nominations for the best actress in a supporting role with the Oscars

Tony Award S for the best actress in a musical review

Golden Globe S for the Best actress in drama series

  • 1985 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)

  • 1987 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)
  • 1990 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)
  • 1992 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)

Nominations for the best actress in drama series with the Emmy Awards

  • 1983 Little Gloria... Happy At Last, film televised of Warris Hussein

  • 1984 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)
  • 1985 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)
  • 1986 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)
  • 1987 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)
  • 1988 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)
  • 1989 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)
  • 1990 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)
  • 1991 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)
  • 1992 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)
  • 1993 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)
  • 1994 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)
  • 1995 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)
  • 1996 Arabesque/It writes with the murder (Murder, She Wrote)

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