Category Archives: Lansbury Reflects

Lovers don’t get much friskier than Eli Wallach

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By Angela Lansbury

Veteran actor and beloved American icon Angela Lansbury, star of such projects as “Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” “The Manchurian Candidate” and the long-running television show “Murder, She Wrote,” will periodically share her reflections on a lifetime spent in the Hollywood spotlight.

That long departed Dutch dullard Søren Kierkegaard once said, “Life can only be understood backwards.” It seems reflection is indeed a vital part of life, especially when you’ve lived the life of yours truly. Sure, you no doubt reflect on my life and career and call to mind my memorable turn as “Miss Marple” in “The Mirror Crack’d.” Or perhaps you recall my scene-stealing sojourn into supporting acting in “The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders”? Continue reading

I Invented Upper Decking

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By Angela Lansbury

Veteran actor and beloved American icon Angela Lansbury, star of such projects as “Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” “The Manchurian Candidate” and the long-running television show “Murder, She Wrote,” will periodically share her reflections on a lifetime spent in the Hollywood spotlight.

William Shakespeare once said, “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” Shakespeare might have been a balding fop, but I must hand it to the old bard on this one: he couldn’t have been more right with regard to legacies.

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Ain’t no party like a Kennebunkport, Maine, party

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By Angela Lansbury

Veteran actor and beloved American icon Angela Lansbury, star of such projects as “Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” “The Manchurian Candidate” and the long-running television show “Murder, She Wrote,” will periodically share her reflections on a lifetime spent in the Hollywood spotlight.

When you’ve made as many pictures as I have, you learn the only thing an actor likes more than a standing ovation at curtain call is a good wrap party. The opportunity to hoist a few Sidecars with your fellow cast members is one to relish, not unlike one might relish earning an Oscar® nomination after starring alongside Ingrid Bergman in 1944’s “Gaslight.” Which I did. But of course you already knew that.

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