{"id":52363,"date":"2022-10-14T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=52363"},"modified":"2022-10-14T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T19:16:08","slug":"r-i-p-angela-lansbury-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/r-i-p-angela-lansbury-r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P.: ANGELA LANSBURY, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"

ANGELA LANSBURY, R.I.P.<\/h1>\n
\"Angela<\/a>

Angela Lansbury receiving her honorary Oscar in 2013. Notice how touched she is. We all should look that good at her age!<\/p><\/div>\n

Even though she was ninety-six, (and actually, just five days short of her ninety-seventh<\/em> birthday!,) I believe that the whole world is mourning marvelous Angela Lansbury right now. When I read of her death just a few days ago, I literally gasped out loud. She was always so vibrant that I felt she’d outlive us all.<\/p>\n

That Dame was certainly a force to be reckoned with. She had her first movie role eighty years ago<\/em>! Angela Lansbury was just seventeen in 1944 when she starred in Gaslight<\/em> alongside Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. And she was perfect in it, of course.<\/p>\n

And then, while the rest of Hollywood was always trying to play younger than they are, (and many of us still<\/em> try,) good old Angela often played characters waaaay older than herself.<\/p>\n

\"Angela<\/a>

Angela Lansbury in her first film, Gaslight.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1948, when she was only twenty-three, she co-starred in State of the Union<\/em> with a much older Spencer Tracy, portraying his forty-something girlfriend. And then in 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate<\/em>, she played the mother of Laurence Harvey’s character, even though she was just three years older than he was!<\/p>\n

I actually was lucky enough to meet Angela Lansbury once. It was at a gala for the 100th episode of her hit television show, Murder, She Wrote<\/em>. We were invited because Mr. X had been on it. The fete was a glorious black-tie affair, with around a thousand people in attendance, and, God bless her, Angela Lansbury was front and center for the arrivals, pleasantly greeting every single one of u<\/em>s!!! She didn’t know me at all, yet she grabbed my hand and welcomed me like we were old friends. I cannot even convey exactly how impressed with her I was! And still am.<\/p>\n

\"Angela<\/a>

Angela Lansbury at her Murder, She Wrote fete. Notice that the top of the cake is a typewriter!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Angela<\/a>

Angela Lansbury in \u0093Blithe Spirit\u0094. Photo by Joan Marcus.<\/p><\/div>\n

To commemorate the evening, we were each gifted a little white marble paperweight with the milestone occasion and date emblazoned on it in gold. And when I say \u201ceach,\u201d I mean it\u2014they didn’t give them to only the actual invitees<\/em>, but rather to all<\/em> their guests. Mr. X and I kept his<\/em>, and gave mine<\/em> to my mother, who adored it! It had a prominent spot in her dining room for the rest of her long years, and I got a kick out of seeing it there every time I went home.<\/p>\n

I last saw Angela Lansbury in person near the end of 2014 when, at the age of eighty-nine<\/em>, she starred in a revival of Blithe Spirit<\/em> at the Ahmanson Theatre. She was a marvel. She did a lot of physical comedy in it, and was amazing. (You can read all about her fabulous performance, for which she won a Tony, right here: itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/theatre-blithe-spirit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\"Who<\/a>

Who would have thought that Angela Lansbury’s pic…<\/p><\/div>\n

\"...would<\/a>

…would match MY first head shot??? Great minds…<\/p><\/div>\n

On a tiny personal note, I’m thrilled to have recently discovered that I have one thing in common with the great Dame Angela. But it’s not in acting. Of course. Nor class<\/em>! It’s that as teenagers new-ish to Los Angeles, we both had jobs at Bullocks, (her in mid-city, me in Westwood,) for our first Christmas season here! I love that! Never have I been more proud of one of my many crazy gigs.<\/p>\n

And now, my heart goes out to her family and friends. I’m glad that they have such a long lifetime of memories with such a wonderful woman.<\/p>\n

R.I.P., Angela Lansbury.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANGELA LANSBURY, R.I.P. Even though she was ninety-six, (and actually, just five days short of her ninety-seventh birthday!,) I believe that the whole world is mourning marvelous Angela Lansbury right now. When I read of her death just a few days ago, I literally gasped out loud. She was always so vibrant that I felt<\/p>\n

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