Who was Angela Lansbury?
A: Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury was a British-Irish American actress and
singer.
She played various roles across film, stage, and what?
A: Television.
Her career, much of it in the United States, spanned
how many decades?
A: Eight.
At the time of her death, she was one of the last
surviving stars from what?
A: The Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including
how many Tony Awards?
A: Six, including Lifetime Achievement Award.
How many Golden Globe Awards did she receive?
A: Six.
She also received, a Laurence Olivier Award, and the
Academy Honorary Award, in addition to nominations for Academy Awards?
A: Three.
How many Primetime Emmy Awards did she receive?
A: Eighteen.
Lansbury was born to an upper-middle-class family in
Central London, the daughter of whom?
A: Irish actress Moyna Macgill and English politician Edgar Lansbury.
To escape the Blitz, she moved where in
1940?
A: New York.
Proceeding to Hollywood in 1942, she signed to MGM and
obtained her first what?
A: Film roles.
What were her first three films?
A: Gaslight (1944), National Velvet (1944), and The Picture of Dorian Gray
(1945).
She appeared in eleven further MGM films, mostly in
what?
A: Minor roles.
After her contract ended in 1952, she began
supplementing her cinematic work with what?
A: Theatrical appearances.
Although largely seen as a B-list star during this
period, her role in the film The Manchurian Candidate (1962) received what?
A: Widespread acclaim and is often cited as one of her career-best
performances, earning her a third Academy Award nomination.
Moving into musical theatre, Lansbury finally gained
stardom for playing the leading role in what?
A: The Broadway musical Mame (1966), which won her her first Tony Award and
established her as a gay icon.
Amidst difficulties in her personal life, Lansbury
moved from California to where?
A: County Cork, Ireland, in 1970, and continued with a variety of theatrical
and cinematic appearances throughout that decade.
These included leading roles in what stage musicals?
A: Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, and The King and I, as well as in the hit Disney
film Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971).
Moving into television in 1984, she achieved worldwide
fame as what?
A: As fictional writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the American whodunit
series Murder, She Wrote.
Murder,She Wrote ran for how many seasons?
A: Twelve seasons until 1996, becoming one of the longest-running and most
popular detective drama series in television history.
Through Corymore Productions,a company that she
co-owned with her husband Peter Shaw, Lansbury assumed ownership of what?
A: Of the series and was its executive producer for the final four seasons.
She also moved into voice work, contributing to
animated films like Disney's what?
A: Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Don Bluth's Anastasia (1997).
She toured in a variety of international productions
and continued to make occasional film appearances such as what?
A: Nanny McPhee (2005) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).
In 2014, Lansbury was appointed what?
A: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
She was the subject of how many biographies?
A: Three.
