![]() ![]() Lovett, she of the human meat pies, in Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical "Sweeney Todd."Īngela Lansbury on set of 'Murder She Wrote', 19th May 1992. It was that emotion which made her difficult characters different, including tough figures like the plotting mother of brainwashed Laurence Harvey in the 1962 film "The Manchurian Candidate ," or stage mom Mama Rose in the 1974 Broadway revival of "Gypsy," or baker Mrs. ![]() ![]() She may be bloodthirsty but she always wants the best for us. She appeared as the lead in "Mame" on Broadway in 1966, gold-lamé pajamas and all. Her character slaps Judy Garland in "Harvey Girls." She played a maid again, a villainous one, in 1951's "Kind Lady." Unhappy with her film career, Lansbury turned back to theater and radio plays, and also started appearing in television. Mayer kept casting me as a series of venal bitches," she wrote in her autobiography. ![]() She appeared in a handful of hardly stellar films, frequently in minor and dastardly roles. She would go on to receive six Golden Globes, 18 Primetime Emmy Awards and three Academy Award noms, not to mention a slew of lifetime achievement awards and six Tonys. In 2014, Queen Elizabeth II appointed her Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.īut first, she was typecast by MGM and cast less often than other actors. Signed to MGM, Lansbury followed "Gaslight" with her sullen sister turn in "National Velvet" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray," racking up two Academy Award nominations and a Golden Globe along the way. ![]()
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