651: Angela Lansbury
Beloved Actress
Born: 16 October 1925, London, United Kingdom
Died: 11 October 2020, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Angela earned her first Academy Award nomination for her first film role, Gaslight, in 1944. Today, Angela is best remembered for her roles in Murder She Wrote, Beauty and the Beast (the original Disney Cartoon), and Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Though her work had slowed down in recent years, Angela had yet to fully retire at the time of her death.
Angela earned three Academy nominations and had worked in Broadway and Television as well. Angela also earned four Tony awards; despite being nominated for the Emmy eighteen times for her work on Murder She Wrote and other projects; Angela never won that particular award.
In 1951, Angela became a naturalized United States citizen.
In 2014 she was named a Dame, Order of the British Empire (DBE).
Angela’s hand prints are impressed outside Disneyland Paris. She was one of the performers asked to help open the park, which was the first Disney Theme park in Europe.
Badges Earned:
Find a Grave Marked
Located In My Personal Library:
Appetite For America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time by Stephen Fried
Harvey Houses of Arizona: Historic Hospitality from Winslow to the Grand Canyon by Rosa Walston Latimer
Sources:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001450/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
https://www.biography.com/actor/angela-lansbury
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/arts/angela-lansbury-dead.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/244491514/angela-lansbury