“Angela Lansbury was a boundlessly versatile performer, with a decades-long career filled with roles that played to her many strengths.
“She was a chilling villain in The Manchurian Candidate, a flighty and flirty accomplice to the psychological torment of Gaslight, and a winsome tavern singer in The Picture of Dorian Gray, earning an Oscar nomination for each role.
“She played a kindly grandmother figure in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; a much more sinister one in The Company of Wolves; the slyly meddlesome amateur sleuth of Murder, She Wrote; and the cheerfully resourceful (if murderous and insane) Mrs. Lovett of Stephen Sondheim’s musical masterpiece Sweeney Todd.
“A jury could debate for weeks over her greatest part and fail to arrive at a definitive answer.”
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