9 Angela Lansbury favorites to watch and where to find them
You're not alone if you saw the news of Angela Lansbury's death Tuesday, at 96, and thought about turning on an episode of "Murder, She Wrote," the beloved mystery series she starred in from 1984 to 1996 as a writer and amateur detective on the coast of Maine. Or, for that matter, the films "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) and "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), in which she gave two of her most indelible screen performances — as, respectively, a war hero's conniving mother and a teapot.
It's impossible even to scratch the surface of Lansbury's remarkable film and TV career, to say nothing of her work in the theater, but those and the other six titles collected here are at least a start. We take no responsibility if you wake up singing "Be Our Guest" in the morning, though.
'Gaslight'
1944. HBO Max: Included | Apple TV: Rent/Buy | Amazon Prime: Rent/Buy
From The Times' 1944 coverage: Four years ago this month a wide-eyed, blond little English girl of 14 sailed up New York Harbor seeking refuge from the London blitz. Now, in August 1944, taller, poised and talented, the same girl is regarded as one of the foremost young candidates for dramatic stardom on the screen.
She is Angela Lansbury, who won unprecedented praise for an initial performance as the cockney maid in MGM's "Gaslight," starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.
On the basis of her performance as the saucy, scheming servant in "Gaslight," Angela was given a long-term contract. In "National Velvet" she has the sympathetic part of an
