RIP Angela Lansbury

[ArugulaZ]

Angela Lansbury, ‘Murder, She Wrote’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Star, Dies at 96

Actress Angela Lansbury, whose 75-year career encompassed triumphs on the big screen, in musical theater and on television, died on Tuesday. She was 96.

variety.com

That's a shame. I've liked her in most everything she's been in, but her turn as a duplicitous hag running a phony freak show in The Last Unicorn was the most memorable, simply because it played against her image of a friendly, proper British granny.

 

[Violentvixen]

She was in so many things I watched growing up. Just a legend.

 

[Sprite]

Jessica Fletcher is the kind of character that only works because of Lansbury’s performance. The character would be an annoying know-it-all who is super good at everything all the time but Lansbury is just so bursting with charisma that you’re like, yes, she really is that great, why aren’t the police listening to her

Angela Lansbury, ‘Murder, She Wrote’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Star, Dies at 96

Actress Angela Lansbury, whose 75-year career encompassed triumphs on the big screen, in musical theater and on television, died on Tuesday. She was 96.

variety.com

That's a shame. I've liked her in most everything she's been in, but her turn as a duplicitous hag running a phony freak show in The Last Unicorn was the most memorable, simply because it played against her image of a friendly, proper British granny.

She’s also a villain in the original Sweeney Todd and Manchuria Candidate.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

Manchuria Candidate

She's so good in Manchurian Candidate. It really was an era for "evil moms" and she's amongst the most evil.

 

[Falselogic]

I love her for a lot of reasons, one being her staunch support of HIV/AIDs victims even during the worst times in the 80s and 90s. But, my personal favorite is her portrayal of correspondence school witch, Eglantine Price in Bed Knobs and Broomsticks.

 

[Kirin]

Bedknobs was one of my faves too.

She had an amazing run.