Angela Lansbury Could Make the Silliest Movie a Work of Art
To understand her greatness, look no further than one of the silliest films she ever appeared in: 1971’s <em>Bedknobs and Broomsticks</em>.
by David Sims
Oct 12, 2022
2 minutes
Angela Lansbury was a boundlessly versatile performer, with a decades-long career filled with roles that played to her many strengths. She was a chilling villain in , a flighty and flirty accomplice to the psychological torment of , and a winsome tavern singer in , earning an Oscar nomination for each role. She played a kindly grandmother figure in Disney’s ; a much more sinister one in ;the slyly meddlesome amateur sleuth of ; and the cheerfully resourceful (if murderous and insane) Mrs. Lovett of Stephen Sondheim’s musical masterpiece . A jury could debate for weeks over her greatest part and fail to arrive at a definitive answer.
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