From there she appeared as Minnie Littlejohn in The Long Hot Summer (1958), and as Mabel Claremont in The Reluctant Debutante (1958), for which she filmed in Paris. In 1972, Lansbury returned to London's West End to perform in the Royal Shakespeare Company's theatrical production of Edward Albee's All Over at the Aldwych Theatre. [69] Her first appearance in a theatrical musical was the short-lived Anyone Can Whistle, written by Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim. I was just Mrs. Shaw, which suited me down to the ground. [246] In The Guardian, journalist Mark Lawson described her as a member of the "acting aristocracy in three countries" Britain, Ireland, and the United States. A critical success, it earned Lansbury her third Tony Award. Angela Lansburys Murder, She Wrote Costar Ron Masak Dies 1 Week After Her: 5 Thing To Know. According to Bing, Cromwell passed away on Oct. 11, 1960 at the age of 50. "[67] Lansbury received her third Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination for the film. Lansbury hoped to get away from the depiction of the role made famous by Margaret Rutherford, instead returning to Christie's description of the character. The director's first choice for the role had been Rosalind Russell, who played Mame in the 1958 non-musical film adaptation, but she had declined. Her performance even won her a 2009 Tony Award for "Best Featured Actress in a Play," her fifth win and sixth nomination. Lansbury married Cromwell when she was just 19 years,. "She was proceeded in death by her husband of 53 years, Peter Shaw. [250] The actor Jason Alexander called her "one of the most versatile, talented, graceful, kind, witty, wise, classy ladies" he had ever met. [33] In 1951, the couple both became naturalized US citizens, albeit retaining their British citizenship via dual nationality. Angela Lansbury Angela Lansbury's marriages: Heartbreak after gay husband left to finding her true love Murder, She Wrote actress Angela Lansbury tied the knot with actor Richard. [165] 1989 saw her featured in The Shell Seekers as an Englishwoman recuperating from a heart attack,[166] and in 1990 she starred in The Love She Sought as an American school teacher who falls in love with a Catholic priest while visiting Ireland; Lansbury thought it "a marvelous woman's story. [149] Lansbury began to tire of the series, and in particular the long working hours, stating that the 19901991 season would be its last. She told Terry Gross . [8] Her paternal grandfather was the Labour Party leader George Lansbury, a man whom she felt "awed" by and considered "a giant in my youth". [71] She followed this with appearances as Mama Jean Bello in Harlow (1965), as Lady Blystone in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965), and as Gloria in Mister Buddwing (1966). I bought an old stone house, on 20 acres of land, that had been built for a vicar in 1825. [191] In November 2013, she received an Academy Honorary Award for her lifetime achievement at the Governors Awards. Angela Lansbury and Richard Cromwell's marriage was over in less than 12 months. Lansbury sadly died on October 11, 2022. "Everything was telling me to take my family and get away, so I did," Lansbury told PEOPLE at the time. My husband is a very sensitive person to my moods and he recognised the fact that I had to get on with something. Shaw told PEOPLE in 1992 that he felt it was "awfully hard to tell the difference between" Lansbury herself and her iconic Murder, She Wrote character Jessica Fletcher. [77] Auntie Mame was already popular among the gay community,[78] and Mame gained Lansbury a cult gay following, something that she later attributed to the fact that Mame Dennis was "every gay person's idea of glamour Everything about Mame coincided with every young man's idea of beauty and glory and it was lovely. Angela Lansbury and Peter Shaw pictured on their wedding day in London on July, 26, 1949. [206] She died in her sleep at her Los Angeles home on October 11, 2022, five days before her 97th birthday. In a 2017 interview, Lansbury said she was clueless about his sexuality but didn't regret marrying him. In 1952, the couple welcomed their first child, a boy named Anthony. They tied the knot in September 1945, per Bing, and split up less than a year later in 1946. [131] Two further miniseries featuring Lansbury appeared in 1984: Lace and The First Olympics: Athens 1896. [189] From February 2013, she starred alongside James Earl Jones in an Australian tour of Driving Miss Daisy,[190] an appearance that resulted in her pulling out from a scheduled role in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel. Shaw was an aspiring actor, also signed to MGM, and had recently left a relationship with Joan Crawford. Not many people can say that, a heartbroken Angela told the Daily Mail following Peters death. Angela Lansbury who died Tuesday at the age of 96 recalled in a 2014 interview how her daughter, Deidre Shaw, fell in with Manson's crowd as a teenager. "[79], Reviews of Lansbury's performance were overwhelmingly positive. . [223] Tommy McArdle is a digital news writer at PEOPLE covering stories across all of the brand's verticals. I'm eternally grateful for the Irish side of me. "[54] She played Princess Gwendolyn in the comedy film The Court Jester (1956), before taking on the role of a wife who kills her husband in Please Murder Me (1956). The 'Murder, She Wrote' star tied the knot with fellow actor Richard Cromwell when she was just 19 and he was 35, but the marriage last less than a year as he left her with no warning and just a brief note as an explanation which read "Sorry. Heres How It Can Help You Nab Your Next Job, Angela Lansbury is known for her decades-spanning career, including her 12-year run on Murder, She Wrote in the 1980s and 1990s, Angela was married twice in her life, for one year to Richard Cromwell, and 53 years to Peter Shaw, She believed she and Peter had the perfect relationship. "[58] Into the 1960s, she followed this with an appearance in a Broadway performance of A Taste of Honey at the Lyceum Theatre, directed by Tony Richardson and George Devine. [256] On being made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, Lansbury stated: "I'm joining a marvellous group of women I greatly admire like Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. 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The Truth About Angela Lansbury's Relationship With Peter Shaw, Focus On: 100 Most Popular 21St-century English Actresses. [168] Lansbury's highest profile cinematic role since The Manchurian Candidate was as the voice of the singing teapot Mrs. Potts in the 1991 Disney animation Beauty and the Beast, as part of which she performed the film's title song. [146] In 1987, a spin-off was produced, The Law & Harry McGraw, although it proved short-lived. Read on to learn about Peter and his marriage to Angela below. It just had never really sunk in I was in love with love, Angela once recalled of the turbulent time in her personal life, per BANG Showbiz. But my husband recognised the signals in me which said 'I've been doing enough gardening, I've cooked enough good dinners, I've sat around the house and mooned about what more interior decoration I can get my fingers into.' By 1946, they officially divorced. Hollywood Life [21] Lansbury returned to New York City in August 1942, but her mother had moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, to resurrect her cinematic career; Lansbury and her brothers followed. Nobody there did. [9] Angela had an older half-sister, Isolde, from Macgill's previous marriage to Reginald Denham. All About Mattia Dessi, How Angela Lansbury, the Original Mrs. Potts, Was Honored in 'Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration'. The pair married in 1924 shortly after Macgill divorced her first husband; Angela arrived the following year, on Oct. 16, 1925. [137] Designed as inoffensive family viewing, despite its topic the show eschewed depicting violence or gore, following the "whodunit" format rather than those of most US crime shows of the time. [200] Her next role was as Aunt March in the BBC miniseries Little Women, screened in December 2017. Self-editing. Of course, Lansbury didn't recognize these warning signs and had no clue that her marriage was in jeopardy. [a] Her mother was Belfast-born Irish Moyna Macgill (born Charlotte Lillian McIldowie), an actress who regularly appeared on stage in London's West End and who also appeared in several films. [175], In the years following Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury was increasingly preoccupied by her husband's deteriorating health; it was for this reason that she dropped out of being the lead role in the 2001 Kander and Ebb musical The Visit before it opened. [156] There were "vocal protests" at its cancellation from the show's fanbase. [43], Unhappy with the roles she was being given by MGM, Lansbury instructed her manager, Harry Friedman of MCA Inc., to terminate her contract in 1952. Lansbury first got married in September 1945 to actor Richard Cromwell, who was most known for starring in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer and Jezebel. [61] Although believing that the film was of poor quality, she commented that she agreed to appear in it because she "was desperate". Later that year, she married her first husband, Richard Cromwell a well-established actor who stopped acting in 1943, per Turner Classic Movies. The end of their brief marriage came after Lansbury learned that Cromwell was gay and had married her because he was enamored with the actress. But I was reliving childhood fantasies," Lansbury told PEOPLE in 1984. It was actually Angela who, at the young age of 19, had to financially support her brothers and mother . [47] In April 1953, her daughter Deirdre Angela Shaw was born. Angela Lansbury, Screen and Broadway Icon, Dead at 96 Casey Curry/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Lansbury married Shaw, an actor who later became a prominent Hollywood agent, in London in 1949,. [215] Gottfried characterized her as being "Meticulous. [64] She had agreed to appear in the film after reading the original novel, describing it as "one of the most exciting political books I ever read". [59] During the show's run, Lansbury developed a friendship with both Plowright and Plowright's lover Laurence Olivier; it was from Lansbury's rented flat on East 97th Street that Plowright and Olivier eloped to be married. As of 2009, she held the record for the most unsuccessful Emmy nominations by a performer. [39] She appeared in The Hoodlum Saint (1946), Till the Clouds Roll By (1947), If Winter Comes (1947), Tenth Avenue Angel (1948), The Three Musketeers (1948), State of the Union (1948) and The Red Danube (1949). [207][208][209], Lansbury defined herself as being "Irish-British". She graduated in March 1942, by which time the family had moved to a flat in Morton Street, Greenwich Village. "I had no idea that I was marrying a gay man. [46] Biographer Margaret Bonanno later stated that at this point, Lansbury's career had "hit an all-time low". describe a time when you were treated unfairly. Apart from their age gap, there were other reasons why their union didn't last. ", "Lansbury Pleased Not to Have Won Oscars", "Oscars: Academy to Honor Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin, Piero Tosi and Angelina Jolie", "Robert Osborne Honours Angela Lansbury at the 2013 Governors Awards", The Interviews: An Oral History of Television, "40 years later, Angela Lansbury returns to the London stage at 88", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angela_Lansbury&oldid=1151270653, This page was last edited on 23 April 2023, at 00:02. Although 16 years old, she claimed to be 19 to secure the job. [109], Wanting to move on from musicals, Lansbury obtained the role of Gertrude in the National Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, staged at the Old Vic. Home; Service. Their marriage was troubled; Cromwell was gay, and had married Lansbury in the unsuccessful hope that it would turn him heterosexual. On Tuesday, Lansbury's three children announced that she died overnight in her sleep at her Los Angeles home. "Paddy O'Brien and I planted new gardens every season, and I took long walks with my children in the lovely Irish countryside. Angela Brigid Lansbury was born to an upper-middle-class family on October 16, 1925. Lansbury and Shaw stayed married for over 54 years. Meet her second husband, to whom she was married for 53 years, here. ANGELA'S ROMANTIC LIFE As per her romantic life, she has been married twice. [181] Lansbury received a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her role. In the '60s, both Lansbury's son. Get off your ass and start moving forward. Some of her biggest films following Peters death include 2005s Nanny McPhee and 2018s Mary Poppins Returns. [183] This appearance earned her the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play; this was her fifth Tony Award, tying her with the previous record holder for the number of Tony Awards, Julie Harris. Analytical Services; Analytical Method Development and Validation Cromwell was 15 years Lansbury's senior, but, at the time, she couldn't help but feel drawn to him. [20], Macgill secured work in a Canadian touring production of Tonight at 8:30, and was joined by her daughter. [170][171], Lansbury's Murder, She Wrote fame resulted in her being employed to appear in advertisements and infomercials for Bufferin, MasterCard and the Beatrix Potter Company. [119], In 1982, Lansbury took on the role of an upper middle-class housewife who champions workers' rights in A Little Family Business, a farce set in Baltimore in which her son Anthony also starred. [34] According to a 2014 article in the Irish Independent, she also held Irish citizenship. [227] She preferred to spend quiet evenings with her friends inside her house because she did not like to engage in Hollywood nightlife. [94], In the early 1970s, Lansbury declined several cinematic roles, including the lead in The Killing of Sister George and the role of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, because she was not satisfied with them. Lansbury's first marriage was with deceased American actor Richard Cromwell, who starred in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer and Jezebel. [42] Moving into television, she appeared in a 1950 episode of Robert Montgomery Presents adapted from A.J. In 1946, Lansbury met her future husband, Peter Shaw, at an event for actors, according to "Focus On: 100 Most Popular 21St-century English Actresses." The marriage, however, lasted less than a year as they got married in 1945 and divorced in 1946. The end of their brief marriage came after Lansbury learned that Cromwell was gay and had married her because he was enamored with the actress. The legendary actress and her husband, Peter Shaw, snagged the property back in 1985 for $925k. [92] She followed this with an appearance in the title role of the musical Prettybelle, based upon Jean Arnold's Prettybelle: A Lively Tale of Rape and Resurrection. I don't want to reach just the people who can pay forty-five or fifty dollars for a [theatre] seat. The marriage wouldn't last a year. "[50] In 1959, the family moved to Malibu, settling into a house on the Pacific Coast Highway that had been designed by Aaron Green; there, she and Peter escaped the Hollywood scene, and sent their children to public school. [132], In 1983, Lansbury was offered two main television roles, one in a sitcom and the other in a detective drama series, Murder, She Wrote. He died from heart failure on January 29, 2003, at the age of 84. [244] Gottfried described her as "an American icon",[214] while the BBC characterized her as "one of Britain's favourite exports,"[212] and The Independent suggested that she could be considered Britain's most successful actress. I had known so many gay people in Hollywood. They divorced a year later but remained good friends until his death in 1960. Angela Lansbury with her husband PeterShaw on their wedding day in 1949. [30] In December 1946, she was introduced to fellow English expatriate Peter Pullen Shaw at a party held by former co-star Hurd Hatfield in Ojai Valley. They founded the company in 1987 after Peter had served as the assistant head of production at MGM. In a career stretching from ingnue to dowager, from elegant heroine to depraved villainess, [Lansbury] has displayed durability and flexibility, as well as a highly admired work ethic. [65] Biographers Edelman and Kupferberg considered this role "her enduring cinematic triumph,"[66] while Gottfried stated that it was "the strongest, the most memorable and the best picture she ever made she gives her finest film performance in it. [194] While in London, she made an appearance at the Angela Lansbury Film Festival, a screening of some of her films in Poplar. "Angela has that marvelous gumption, and that's one of the nice things that Jessica has," Shaw said at the time. [34], Following the success of Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray, MGM cast Lansbury in 11 further films until her contract with the company ended in 1952. [211] [108] After several months' break, Gypsy toured the country again in the summer of 1975. [118] She returned to the role in October 1980 for a ten-month US tour; the production was also filmed and broadcast on the Entertainment Channel. Lansbury had a long storied life, but she refused to quit working, continuing to land roles in various projects. Lansbury was born to an upper-middle-class family in Central London, the daughter of Irish actress Moyna Macgill and English politician Edgar Lansbury. They divorced in 1946 but remained close friends until his demise in 1960. Edgar served as Honorary Treasurer of the East London . Angela Lansbury Husband. "Malibu, where we lived in the 1960s, was a hotbed of youthful drug abuseto these kids it was as common as bubble gum. To escape the Blitz, she moved to the United States in 1940, studying acting in New York City. As portrayed by Lansbury, Fletcher was a successful detective novelist who also solved murders encountered during her travels. 1952) and Deirdre Ann (b. Mame came along out of the blue just at this time. "Both of my children, but particularly my son, became involved with drugs," she told PEOPLE at the time. [37], In 1946, Lansbury played her first American character as Em, a honky-tonk saloon singer in the Oscar-winning Wild West musical The Harvey Girls;[38] her singing was dubbed by Virginia Reese. There were elm trees 300 years old, a river running down in back and lovely Victorian gardens all around. [231] Lansbury was an avid letter writer who wrote letters by hand and made copies of all of them. He died on Jan. 29, 2003 due to congestive heart failure. Druten suggested that Lansbury would be perfect for the role of Nancy Oliver, a cockney maid; she was accepted for the part, although, since she was only 17, a social worker had to accompany her on the set. "It was just a terrible error I made as a very young woman. She also received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the National Medal of the Arts in 1997, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000. The film was being directed by George Cukor and starred Ingrid Bergman in the lead role of Paula Alquist, a woman in Victorian London being psychologically tormented by her husband. The following year, she attended her very first Oscars ceremony, but she didn't take home any hardware. "[167] She next starred as the eponymous cockney in a television film adaptation of the novel Mrs 'Arris Goes to Paris, directed by her son and executive produced by her stepson. Working in cinema, in 1979 Lansbury appeared as Miss Froy in The Lady Vanishes, a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film. I hate violence. The final episode aired on 8 May 1996, and ended with Lansbury voicing a "Goodbye from Jessica" message. Angela Lansbury and her second husband, Peter Shaw, had two children, Anthony and Deirdre, who faced serious issues that put the family through tough times. [100] He subsequently enrolled in the Webber-Douglas School, his mother's alma mater, and became a professional actor, before moving into television directing. [111] Her next theatrical appearance was in two one-act plays by Albee, Counting the Ways and Listening, performed side by side at the Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut. Shaw co-founded a production company with David and Anthony, which produced his wife's famous show, "Murder, She Wrote," says Playbill. By clicking Accept All Cookies, you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyze site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts. To date, she has won six Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA, and has earned herself a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [173] As a result of her work, she was awarded a CBE by the British government, given to her in a ceremony by Charles, Prince of Wales, at the British consulate in Los Angeles. Suddenly it happens, and that special person is gone, she explained. You may know her best for her portrayal of Mrs. Potts in Disney's Beauty and the Beast or as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote. Lansbury was angry at the move, believing that it ignored the show's core audience. The prolific and talented actress was recognized for her life of terrific work at the 2022 Tony Awards, where she was given the Lifetime Achievement Award. Lansbury remained married to Shaw until his death in 2003, and the couple shared three children together: Shaw's son David, as well as their children Anthony (born 1952) and Deirdre (born 1953). As a result, Anthony had become addicted to cocaine and heroin. . Reviews of the production were mixed, although Lansbury was again singled out for praise. "The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday," her family announced Tuesday in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. The play opened in Boston, but received poor reviews and was cancelled before it reached Broadway. [176] Peter died in January 2003 of congestive heart failure at the couple's Brentwood home. [75] Mame Dennis was a glamorous character, with over 20 costume changes throughout the play, and Lansbury's role involved ten songs and dance routines for which she trained extensively. "[256], Lansbury won six Golden Globe Awards and a People's Choice Awards for her television and film work. [201] In "[253] Others who posted in remembrance of Lansbury included Kristin Chenoweth, Viola Davis, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Harvey Fierstein, Kathy Griffin, Jeremy O. Harris, Brent Spiner, George Takei, and Rachel Zegler. [16] Keen on playing the piano, she briefly studied music at the Ritman School of Dancing, and in 1940 began studying acting at the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art in Kensington, West London, first appearing onstage as a lady-in-waiting in the school's production of Maxwell Anderson's Mary of Scotland. Peter was born in Reading, England as Peter Pullen in 1918. [107] Following the culmination of the London run, in 1974 Gypsy toured the US; in Chicago, Lansbury was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance. [162], Throughout the run of Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury had continued appearing in other television films, miniseries and cinema. Lansbury remained married to Shaw until his death in 2003, and the couple shared three children together: Shaw's son David, as well as their children Anthony (born 1952) and Deirdre (born 1953). [229] She cited F. Scott Fitzgerald as her favourite author,[230] and Roseanne and Seinfeld among her favourite television shows. Although Lansbury played actor Laurence Harvey's mother in the film, she was in fact only three years older than him. Some of her most notable movie roles include The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Long, Hot Summer, The Manchurian Candidate, Nanny McPhee, and Beauty and the Beast, to name a few. [93] Lansbury later described the play as "a complete and utter fiasco", admitting that in her opinion, her "performance was awful". ', "Viola Davis, George Takei And More Pay Tribute To Angela Lansbury: 'An Absolute Legend', "Kathy Griffin, Jason Alexander & More Stars Mourn the Death of 'Fabulous' Angela Lansbury", "New Year's Honours: Lansbury and Keith become Dames", "Angela Lansbury Refused to Be Defined By Her Lack of an Emmy", "Angela Lansbury Golden Globe History 15 Nomination(s), 6 Win(s)", "Can Emmy's Biggest Loser Bill Maher Ever Win? The combination makes a good mix for acting. "[234] She supported Britain's Labour Party, to which she had family ties,[196] and the US Democratic Party; she described herself as a "Democrat from the ground up" to quash online rumours that she endorsed the Republican Party. Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (October 16, 1925 - October 11, 2022) was an Irish-British and American actress and singer. Instead, they wed at St. Columba's Church, a place of worship under the jurisdiction of the Church of Scotland, in Knightsbridge, London, in August 1949, followed by a honeymoon in France. In September 1945, a 19-year-old Angela Lansbury married a 35-year-old Cromwell. [101] Lansbury and her husband did not return to California, instead dividing their time between Cork and New York City, where they lived in a flat opposite the Lincoln Center.[102]. Asked about her greatest achievement by The Telegraph (UK), Lansbury said, "Staying alive . It was her first role in anything, and it was so noteworthy that the then-rookie actress would be nominated for her first Oscar. At the tender age of 19, Angela Lansbury's first husband was Richard Cromwell who himself was a hit actor famous for flicks like 'Riot Squad', 'Men of the Hour', and more. He later became an agent and represented some of the top names in Tinseltown, such as Robert Mitchum, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani. [255] She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1994 Birthday Honours,[255] and subsequently was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to drama, charitable work, and philanthropy. Jul 2, 2022. Lansbury was loaned by MGM first to United Artists for The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947), and then to Paramount for Samson and Delilah (1949). [178] Wanting to spend more time in New York City, in 2006 she purchased a $2million condominium in Manhattan. Airing primarily on Sunday . Angela Lansbury's longtime Los Angeles home has sold for $4.999 million, nearly $500,000 over its original asking price of $4.45 million. [95] Instead, she accepted the role of the Countess von Ornstein, an ageing German aristocrat who falls in love with a younger man, in Something for Everyone (1970), for which she filmed on location in Hohenschwangen, Bavaria. [187] She then appeared in the 2011 film Mr. Popper's Penguins, opposite Jim Carrey. Even between the family moving to Ireland to help their children lead a quieter life, away from the influences of Hollywood (perBiography) and later coming back to the states, the tight-knit couple stayed true to their vows. Angela Lansbury was married twice, most notably to actor and agent Peter Shaw, who died in 2003. Angela was best known for her roles exhibited in her television shows, theatre, and television. [179] Lansbury returned to Broadway after a 23-year absence in Deuce, a play by Terrence McNally that opened at the Music Box Theatre in May 2007 for an 18-week limited run. Cronin's The Citadel. Her first marriage was with actor Richard Cromwell. While Lansbury repeatedly stated that she wanted to put her children before her career, she admitted that she frequently had to leave them in California for long periods when she was working elsewhere. [17], That year, Lansbury's grandfather died, and with the onset of the Blitz, Macgill decided to take Angela, Bruce and Edgar to the United States; Isolde remained in Britain with her new husband, the actor Peter Ustinov. Lansbury said at the time that the move offered her an opportunity to "step back in time" to the days of her youth in London before World War II, as she viewed Ireland as "40 or 50 years behind the rest of Europe. Angela Lansbury was born in 1925 into a prominent family of the upper middle class living in the Regent's Park neighborhood of London.
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