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Obit: Dame Angela Lansbury DBE (1925–2022)

12 Oct 22 - 07:57 PM (#4154859)
Subject: Obit: Dame Angela Lansbury DBE (1925–2022)
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch

And Mame what a Dame she were.

12 Oct 22 - 08:44 PM (#4154863)
Subject: RE: Obit: Dame Angela Lansbury DBE (1925–2022)
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

I enjoyed her work.

Would not go "out of my way to view it," however.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle
Never thought of her as a Brit ... always thought her accent to be an affectation she put on for American audiences.

13 Oct 22 - 01:54 AM (#4154867)
Subject: RE: Obit: Dame Angela Lansbury DBE (1925–2022)
From: Joe Offer

She did a good job keeping up with Judy Garland in Harvey Girls in 1946. Fun movie.

But my favorite Angela Lansbury singing performances were in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. This performance was 6 years ago in 2016, on the 25th anniversary of the movie. Here's a performance from 1992, when her voice was stronger.


And then there's "A Little Priest" from Sweeney Todd.

-Joe-

13 Oct 22 - 01:56 AM (#4154868)
Subject: RE: Obit: Dame Angela Lansbury DBE (1925–2022)
From: r.padgett

I enjoyed following her career and pleased she made good in US though English/British by birth

Became the "English aunt" after a long career in films

Ray

13 Oct 22 - 09:50 AM (#4154896)
Subject: RE: Obit: Dame Angela Lansbury DBE (1925–2022)
From: Stilly River Sage

I was a poor government employee the years I lived in New York City, but I saved my birthday money (thank you, Dad!) and went to a few concerts and a couple of Broadway musicals. One of them was with Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd. Live music is best!

13 Oct 22 - 03:27 PM (#4154930)
Subject: RE: Obit: Dame Angela Lansbury DBE (1925–2022)
From: GUEST,keberoxu

Gargoyle's yellow postscript makes a point.
It was the mother of Angela and Edgar Lansbury (they were twins)
who had a career on the English stage.
Angela Lansbury became one of the "MGM broads" as someone else put it,
and she knew Hollywood when it really was all that.

It was Angela Lansbury who was quoted as saying that
the Hollywood cinematographers knew how to make
a mud puddle look glamorous with the right lighting and camera angle.

13 Oct 22 - 04:17 PM (#4154939)
Subject: RE: Obit: Dame Angela Lansbury DBE (1925–2022)
From: Big Al Whittle

I always loved both films of Gaslight.

13 Oct 22 - 05:51 PM (#4154950)
Subject: RE: Obit: Dame Angela Lansbury DBE (1925–2022)
From: Nigel Parsons

Loved her appearance in many things. None more so than "The Court Jester" with Danny Kaye.

R.I.P.