![]() ![]() “They’ve always been considered glamorous in their jobs.” “Women in motion pictures have always had a difficult time being role models for other women,” she observed. ![]() She was pleased that Jessica Fletcher served as an inspiration for older women. and returned after dark - and reams of dialogue to memorize, Lansbury maintained a steady pace. Despite the long days - she left her home at Brentwood in West Los Angeles at 6 a.m. ![]() She earned Academy Award nominations as supporting actress for two of her first three films, “Gaslight” (1945) and “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1946), and was nominated again in 1962 for “The Manchurian Candidate” and her deadly portrayal of a Communist agent and the title character’s mother.ĬBS and the production company, Universal Studio, agreed, especially since “Murder, She Wrote” had become a Sunday night hit. Lansbury won five Tony Awards for her Broadway performances and a lifetime achievement award. Hers was a 75-year career that included beloved musicals on stage, iron-fisted matriarchs on film, singing the theme song for the animated movie “Beauty and the Beast,” being made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II and the creation of one of television’s best loved characters. She died five days shy of her 97th birthday. Lansbury died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, according to a statement from her three children. NEW YORK (AP) - Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actor who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy” and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” has died. ![]()
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