Her paintings have only been identified through fans, but also through her Hollywood peers with “Seinfeld” actor Jason Alexander writing on Twitter: “The wonderful Angela Lansbury, one of the most versatile, talented, elegant, kind, witty, sensible and sublime women. “that I have known has passed away. His enormous contribution to the arts and the world still remains.
Here’s a look at some of his contributions to the entertainment world.
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Angela Lansbury starred in the CBS mystery series “Murder, She Wrote” for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996, which gained international fame. She played the lead role in the series, Jessica Fletcher, a crime editor and amateur detective.
As an amateur detective, the character found himself in the midst of several homicide investigations in his fictional city of Maine and the rest of the United States. The screen also featured Tom Bosley, William Windom and Ron Masak.
Throughout the 12 years of the series, Lansbury was nominated for 10 Golden Globes and 12 Emmy Awards, winning 4 Golden Globes. These nominations earned her the record for maximum Golden Globe nominations and wins for Best Actress in a Television Drama Series and the highest Emmy nominations. for Best Leading Actress in a Drama Series.
In 1991, Lansbury starred in the Disney classic, “Beauty and the Beast” as Mrs. Potts, the former castle cook who became a teapot after the castle curse. The film was a huge success, grossing $331 million globally. booking office.
The films had a massive impact on the film industry and left a lasting legacy after being nominated for six Oscars, adding three in the Best Original Song category. The songs “Be Our Guest”, “Belle” and “Beauty and the Beast” were nominated in this category, the last song, sung through Lansbury in the film, won the award.
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“Beauty and the Beast” the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture, the first musical to be nominated for Best Picture in 12 years and is tied with “WALL-E” for the animated film with the most nominations.
In 2005, Lansbury took another turn in youth cinema by starring alongside Colin Firth and Emma Thompson in “Nanny McPhee”.
Lansbury played great-aunt Lady Adelaide Stitch, the aunt of the husband’s vanquished wife, who disapproves of the way young people behave and threatens to take one to live with her if things don’t change.
Filming began in 2003, some time after the death of Lansbury’s husband. She told Studio 10 at the time that Thompson helped her film, saying it “absolutely appealed to [my] sense of ridicule. “
“Nanny McPhee” opened at No. 2 in the box with a total of $14,503,650 on the first weekend.
In 1942, Lansbury signed with MGM and starred in their first feature film, “Gaslight”. The story follows Paula and her husband as he slowly begins to manipulate her into thinking he is wasting his brain to distract her from his thief. Activities.
Lansbury played the role of Nancy, the young maidservant from the circle of relatives that Paula surely hates and whom the husband uses to convince Paula that she is going crazy. Although this is her first film, Lansbury’s functionality is so captivating that she nominated her for her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
The film was an instant hit in the workplace, grossing $2,263,000 in the United States and Canada. In 2019, the film was nominated for preservation in the U. S. National Film Registry. It is “cultural, historical, or aesthetically significant. “
Lansbury is well known for her role in “The Manchurian Candidate,” a mental mystery centered on two American infantrymen captured in the Korean War and brainwashed through the Chinese government.
Lansbury plays one of the soldier’s mothers, communist agent Eleanor Iselin, who acts as his representative in the United States and helps facilitate the murders of her son, in order to boost her husband’s political career.
For her role in the film, Lansbury was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, her third nomination in that category with her first for “Gaslight” in 1944 and her time for “The Picture of Dorian Gray” in 1945.
Although the film was a critical success, it did not perform well at the box office and was pulled from theaters shortly after its release.
Lansbury’s moment role in a film came in 1945 with “The Portrait of Dorian Gray”. In the film, Dorian (Hurd Hatfield) wishes to remain young while a portrait of him ages in place. When this wish comes true, he breaks up with his fiancée, plays Lansbury, and embarks on a life of sin.
When Lansbury’s character dies, Dorian realizes how much his movements have affected those around him and looks for a way to oppose the curse inflicted on him and fix things.
Lansbury’s paintings in the film earned her 3 Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress. He never won, squandering the award to Anne Revere that year, for his paintings in the film “National Velvet”.
Lansbury played the role of Mame Dennis in the Broadway production of “Mame” in 1966 and starred in New York City for two years before joining touring productions of the show in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The production in total earned six Tony Award nominations, and Lansbury won Best Lead Actress in a Musical. This was the first of the overall victories at the Tony Awards in Lansbury.
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His performance on “Mame” made Lansbury a superstar, with more opportunities to be on TV after his win and more opportunities to interact with charities.
Regarding his good fortune, Lansbury said: “Everyone loves you, everyone loves good fortune and enjoys it as much as you do. And it lasts as long as you’re at that level and as long as you keep coming out of that level door. “
Lansbury followed his Tony Award with a Tony Award in the musical “Dear World” in 1969.
She played Countess Aurelia, a Parisian who teams up with two other women to bring down businessmen who are making plans to extract oil in her city of Paris. The aim of the work is to show the importance of love and poetry over greed and materialism.
Despite winning Tony, the play was not very successful, and Lansbury even called the party “pretty depressing”, and ended his run after only 132 performances.
In May 1973, Lansbury began performing in “Gypsy” in London’s West End. After his first performance, he won a standing ovation and garnered very positive reviews.
The show’s London tour ended in 1974 and, after touring the United States, they began performing on Broadway until January 1975.
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Its on-screen functionality earned Lansbury his third Tony Award.
In 1979, Lansbury began her time as Nellie Lovett in Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd,” who created the role on Broadway. She would have been very happy to paint with Sondheim, saying that he unearths his words full of “extraordinary wit and intelligence. “
He played the role for 14 months, and the exhibition itself gained mixed reviews, earning Lansbury his fourth Tony Award win. He then returned to the role for a six-city tour of the United States.
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In addition to getting his fourth Tony for Lansbury, he was also nominated for Best Musical, Best Book in a Musical and Best Original Score. The musical was revived twice and has since been adapted into a film, directed by Tim Burton, starring Helena Bohnam Carter. as Nellie Lovett.
Lori Bashian is an entertainment assistant for Fox News Digital.