![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lansbury said she was a bit surprised to find a real home in musical theater. "And, lo and behold, when she walked down that staircase in gold-lamé pajamas, in 1966, she was 40 years old and Broadway embraced her in a way that it has embraced few actresses in its storied history." "Angela Lansbury really threw herself in front of the bus to get that part." Maslon says. Lansbury moved to New York to star on Broadway and scored an enormous triumph in Jerry Herman's Mame in 1966, says theater historian Laurence Maslon.ĪP Lansbury played manipulative Eleanor Iselin, mother of Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), in the 1962 thriller The Manchurian Candidate. Perhaps her most memorable Hollywood performance was as the evil mother of the brainwashed Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate in 1962. #Star stable ride through movie#"I was never going to get to play the girl next door, and I was never going to be groomed to be a glamorous movie star, and I sort of realized that, so I had to make peace with myself on that score," she said. Lansbury was nominated for an Oscar for her Gaslight performance and appeared in many more films, from The Picture of Dorian Gray to The Harvey Girls, often playing women much older than she actually was. She got her first screen role, as the saucy housemaid Nancy in Gaslight, directed by George Cukor, at the age of 17. With the Battle of Britain raging, Lansbury and her mother moved to the United States in 1940 and settled in Hollywood two years later. Appearing onstage was intoxicating, she told Fresh Air's Terry Gross in 2000: "I suddenly got the feel and the smell of being able to make an effect by the way I played the role, the way I comported myself, all of the physical aspects of acting suddenly came to me and I got a laugh, you know, the first time I did it." Lansbury got the acting bug as a teenager, playing Audrey in a student production of As You Like It. Lansbury died Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 96, according to a family statement. in 1940, and settled in Hollywood two years later. Getty Images Lansbury was born in London in 1925. ![]()
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