Angela Lansbury Recalling the Unexpected Success

Angela Lansbury has written a report on September 30, 1984. She was starring Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, a retired writer and English teacher who solved the mystery many murders would be found. Best known his work in the film and the scene in time, Lansbury talked about his career and the unexpected success of were written a crime with the Times in this article was originally published December 10, 1985.

Using a simple shirt with blue stripes, enveloping and comfortable shoes - one of his suits unadorned as the author of mystery / detective Murder, She Wrote - Angela Lansbury sat gently on a back table in the Universal Studios Commissioner polished lunch meat and potatoes cooked solid bread-and joyfully participated in self-deprecating bites. He was between takes.

Look at that wall there, she said; with a wave of his arm assembly color loaded with old movie posters shellacked the long wall in his left. They’ve got the poster of the worst movie I indeed - I do not remember the name I was playing some sort of a seamstress in a film by Tony Curtis I'm very hard up I had to accept it was a rotten part, but I needed the money. MGM lent me. I married, and we were struggling.

The film was The Mask purple released by Universal in 1955. At that time, Lansbury has lived in Brentwood with her husband, Peter Shaw, his son, Anthony, 3, and daughter, Deirdre, 2. A decade after his free, having won fame in Meme on Broadway, she recalled that Mask was about the guillotine. Today, remember that hard.

Lansbury can afford to joke about failure. Now 60, who has four Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Broadway musical, Oscar three nominations as Best Supporting Actress - always the bridesmaid and not the bride, she said evenly - and this two years for Emmy nominations: outstanding Lead actress in a drama series in his first season as Jessica Fletcher in the CBS Sunday night series, and outstanding individual performance in a variety show or musical for her role as Mrs. Lovett PBS special in the musical Sweeney Todd, the role that brought her to get Toney’s room.

Having gone the distance in his career, Lansbury spoke honestly his life, his work itself.  As far as Jessica Fletcher might .  Ask Lansbury, in your trailer on the Universal lot TV evaluates how his career in film about 40 films, and she responded with more than trace sharpness: It is not fully effective.

She asked shortly before the Emmy Awards on his chances of winning the top prize in television wrote the UN crime and without hesitation UN Moment noted that television is being close to the couple UN seasons. Allow me to say right here, I was disappointed As for the West ester Costa worried about prices go, who vowed once I had never ever Another ceremony  said Lansbury, who was then just sat in the hallway for an Emmy, resplendent in a beige dress.

I was nominated three times, three wonderful pieces Lansbury said their appointments were an Oscar for her performance in Gaslight 1944, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Manchurian Candidate 1962 and I did not understand. I do not feel bad about it, but only human, we get all excited at the idea that people tell you, you get.  You must go through this shocking experience high and low, and I think everybody with his head in his right website really is not exposed to this kind of terror.

Lansbury laughed good heart. It is a horrible thing, especially with cameras trained on you like they do these days. It's entertainment. Now in its second season, wrote a crime is a resounding success, with the promise of being an accessory for-television series to come. This is the eighth rank series 97 which aired last season, and between the new series came second, behind NBC's the Cosby Show. This season has been consistently in the top 10 Nielsen shows, often in the top five, and was second or several third times. Yet even before the latest figures, Lansbury said she did not sincerely hope the show for out of the amazing way it has. I thought, although there will be a season.... If we survive this season well and keep our audience, and I think the chances are very good, which will no doubt ask to do a third season. Now murder she wrote becomes the job time than I had in years, she said. We need all my life. It is completely non-stop, shooting, and I have no time for life at home or socialize or relax. When I'm not working, I sleep.

On one hand, I love the success and am enjoying enormously the other hand, I resist this takeover represents my life you are caught in a trap. That's what I'm not sure. It is very difficult to get out of success, right? Lansbury has exhibited considerable moderation, however, a particular family of question. In the past year two national magazines wrote about the participation of your child with drugs in the late 60s, but the actress has put an end to such sincerity. Why keep talking about it? She said. Because it makes Angela Lansbury more interesting to do at their own expense ?

She spoke more comfortable about your decision to withdraw all career plans and go to Ireland with his family for several years. In 1970 when wildfires bad herbs in Southern California, the British-born actress has seen her Malibu home burn to the ground and began to think of the family would be better abroad. Our house was burned and had no home.  Anthony, married with a son, 3, and girl can be seen in the murder she wrote my game as dialogue coach, leading his mother in their lines while the husband Peter Shaw, his business manager and partner in all what I do closely monitoring. Anthony may perform a murder she wrote segment later Lansbury said proudly. Deirdre is married and lives in Italy.

There were a couple of times that I've had (a few) to the task, "she said" It would be hypocritical if I said I was not, and I cried a few times, and said. "Look here now, I think we must be careful with what we have to maintain strong credibility any reference to his being a geezer. Or be updated, or make a disparaging remark about a type of person - I do not think Jessica is that."I think she is so broad-minded in their thinking, it is a help cat, a smart cookie; this is actually, she knows a lot about many things, so every time we tend to a little eccentric in a bad way. I just take it right. Do you know what I mean when I say that some women of a certain age might have to now, good attitude "man"? Patronizing or being a smart-ass "Angela Lansbury -. is the name he was born - he knew he was going to be an actress when she was 12 her mother, Moyna MacGill, a leading actress of British theater, recognized the potential talent his daughter. "She trained me early, and I'm ready for all my auditions, and always came to me. The performance was more than a substitute to believe, and I am a teacher when I was very, very young.

Family was important too. His grandfather, George Lansbury, led the Labor Party from 1931 to 1935. His father, Edgar Lansbury, a timber merchant, died when she was 9, and solitude after his death only serves to stimulate imagination. In 1940 to escape the bombing of London, the family, including his younger twin brothers, Edgar and Bruce, moved to America. In fact, it was the year 1940 she really died of a broken all desperate heart to seek peace efforts. - Which has really she went to see Hitler personally but came to the States. States to see Eleanor Roosevelt was a great follower of Gandhi. In America Lansbury studied acting at the American Theatre wing, she sang at the blue Angel and Roseland until his mother beckoned - Hollywood.

Christmas 1942 with his mother worked in Bullock. In 1943, George Cukor spotted Lansbury in a screen test and joined MGM. In 1944, he starred in Gaslight, playing a woman Cockney room, and in National Velvet playing the older sister of Elizabeth Taylor. Under the auspices of the MGM, she made a dozen more images, including Dorian Gray, The Harvey Girls and State of the Union. My career in movies which I have often spoken as a period of action, as regional theater that got to play many roles. I was sort of the second wife of a company were several actresses like me in this.

Now or never did a lot at that time was Anne Baxter as she was a very, very good actress, I'm not naive. That was the problem; Lansbury said I was a young actress. Character From the time I was 17, I'm a character actress, but they were not great leading roles.  Not that she did not want the big lead  roles glamour. I hated playing the older parts. She wanted the role of Lady De Winter in The Three Musketeers, but Louis B. Mayer insisted that the queen is played France at age 22 would not play the wife of Walter Pigeon.  A woman very unpleasant, a villainess in his 30 years, but I'm under contract this was the end result. You play and play and play, are not played, they had finished. In his own for 20th Century Fox she appreciated the role of Orson Welles, high heels lover in the Long, Hot Summer.

Now that Angela Lansbury has settled back into his old neighborhood of Brentwood, where she lived when her children were young, she is knitting sweaters for her grandchildren and designs a vegetable garden to be locked in huge boxes wood. It also launches his gaze to Hollywood. I think, she said, there will be more absolutely fabulous for me in parts movies. They are not there yet, but they will. As Jessica Fletcher, it is interesting to note that sufficient to Angela Lansbury?  Well, she replied also, everyone must keep these interesting scripts. You should keep these socks pulled up high.