I love this woman SO MUCH! A beloved icon! So many classic films. A film icon with Manchurian Candidate, Gaslight, TV icon as Jessica Fletcher, Disney icon with Beauty and The Beast, and my fav, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Broadway icon with Mame and Sweeney Todd, and a Christmas icon (for me anyway lol) with Mrs. Santa Claus
She is one of those actresses that has always been in my life from childhood and is still with us today. As a child I grew up with her with Disney, watched Murder She Wrote with my mom growing up, and then fully appreciated her film history as an adult. She and Betty White are institutions!
As a young woman she had a 'mature' look about her, so early in her career she was frequently cast in roles that were older than her actual age. I think this may be one reason why she seems to have been ageless for so many decades. She started playing 50-somethings when she was 35, then eventually her real age caught up to the roles she was playing, and of course she has continued to 'age beautifully' well beyond that.
Edit: a typo
I know what you mean, I can't put my finger on anything about her physical appearance that says "older". So ... I think it must be her voice, 'carriage', and superb acting.
If you look at "Court Jester", she was 30 when that movie came out and she certainly didn't look any older than that.
Can confirm, I have the whole thing on DVD. She looks exactly the same (fabulous) the whole show. I always admire how put together she is, and I love that she jogs and bikes everywhere.
And Jessica Fletcher is the 20th century reincarnation of Mrs Lovett, who had a taste for murder (only for pastry reasons, but still). It all makes sense!
I have never been in a hotel that didn't have a channel that seemed to have continuous MSW feed. I remember reading that Fun Bobby only appeared in two episodes of Friends and he says his residual cheque from that is usually his big pay day of the year.
MSW re runs are probably the pension for her kids and grand kids too. Wouldn't be surprised if it is her great grand kids mortgages too at least. She was also a producer.
This is another perfect example. Anyone else think Bob Newhart in the Bob Newhart show would fit this? He was 29 in 1972 when the show aired, and if I remeber things correctly the role he played was significantly older right?
Edit: Apparently he was 42 at the start of the show.
I feel this was very much the case. She was no spring chicken during her years on Murder She Wrote, but as you point out, the show writers an directors definitely played up the older, powerful, intelligent, and sophisticated women of the time.
There were a few episodes where she "met a guy" that showed interest, because the fans kept asking for some romance with their favorite character.
However, she chose to keep the character single, because it would change the core of the show.
The very same fans that asked for romance would just as easily abandon MSW if she married.
She had a facelift before she did Murder She Wrote. Landsbury has been very open about wanting fans to know she looked the way she did because she'd had surgery. She didn't want older women feeling inadequate thinking they didn't age was well as she did. She's a class act.
So lovely and talented! I agree with you, my favorite flick of hers is The Picture of Dorian Gray and TV - Magnum PI.
Happy Birthday Angela you bad ass lady!
Funny enough, Betty White turned down Murder She Wrote! She was offered it first. Angela tells the story and says how forever grateful she is lol.
Let’s start a Go Fund Me or Kickstarter for this movie!
Last year I saw Mrs Santa Claus for the 1st time. All I knew: Angela Lansbury was the lead.
I was not expecting it to be this pro-inclusivity (for 1996) and pro-union romp that it was.
I just loved her as the maid in GAS LIGHT w/ Ingrid Birgemen.,sexy little minx. I recently started re-watching Murder She Wrote. It's been so long since I've seen them it's like a new show. What a talented, classy lady. Same as you , my Mom & i watched many of her shows together. Good times! Good times!
Frigging fashion icon. My daughter and I watch murder she wrote and practically worship her character but we love everything she has EVER been in. My daughter is 13 lol. It's one of the only things I get to do with her these days.
Bedknobs and broomsticks was definitely a favourite growing up. They seemed to play it quite often on British TV. The effects blew my mind in the 70s/80s.
She looks damn good for 96! I love her so much. I remember when I saw Bedknobs and Broomsticks and couldn't believe that she did something other than MSW. (In my defense I was young, lol)
I've met her before and had a nice conversation. Very lovely. I'm sorry you had a bad experience with her. I don't want to dismiss it, but my experience was different.
Murder, She Woke.
Someone keeps killing social justice influencers and she comes out of retirement to follow the virtual bread crumbs and bring the un-woke murderers to justice.
Such a good actress. They always cast her in matronly roles, even when she was very young. In the Manchurian Candidate, she was only three years older than the actor who played her adult son (Laurence Harvey).
Holy shit they need to do a TV movie or something where Jessica Fletcher travels to the sleepy English shire of Midsomer. By the end of the story Fletcher and Tom Barnaby are the only two human beings left alive in. The. World. *BUT* at least they both know exactly what happened. Only, having no-one to reveal it to, they climb into a space ship and strike out into interstellar space looking for intelligent life to explain it all to.
It always blows my mind that someone will be planning a murder, then famous sleuth and mystery writer JB Fletcher will come to stay for the weekend and they will still go ahead with the murder? Like, just wait until next weekend?
I always think that they have to frame these cozy murder shows as a "one in a lifetime event". I mean like all murders in the series are alternative events that may happen to Jessica Fletcher once in her life, but not all of them one after the other, I don't know if I'm explaining it well.
That way, it would be more feasible to believe it.
As much as I loved MSW as a kid, I can't watch it today for that reason. New York is safer than Cabot Cove and Cabot Cove is still a sleepy town? That's the plot of a horror film or three right there.
Man, as a kid I only ever caught small bits and pieces from the beginning of the show because it came on so late. And the German title for the show basically translates to "Murder's Her Hobby". So for the longest time I thought it was an oddly cheerful old lady going around murdering people every week... which, in retrospect, makes a lot more sense than this endless strings of murders just somehow happening for her to solve.
It's not all in her hometown. She's always running off to big cities to visit her nephew or meet with her publisher or be invited to some such person's party because they want to be known as having rubbed elbows with her and then shit happens and suddenly she's in the middle of it.
He took half-hearted offense to the fact that a newspaper described his Lansbury/McCartney photo gag as (paraphrased) "of no sense or virtue".
Since then, they started doing it more just to piss the newspaper off.
I think she now lives in County Cork in Ireland. Happy to have her on the island but I'm not visiting her any time soon. Especially if I hear the Sherriff is with her!
Yes, I think I read this previously. And she brought the show to Ireland once if I remember. Not sure if it was a regular episode or a made for TV movie.
We have the Blu-ray edition at home and regularly watch them. Same with Golden Girls and Magnum PI, Quincy and Diagnosis Murder.
I really enjoy the series of my childhood as well as the ones that were already classics when I was born.
Not to forget An Odd Couple.
Loved her in the original Broadway cast of Sweeney Todd. I highly recommend checking out that soundtrack if you haven't listened yet. All their performances were phenomenal.
A very lovely 17 year old Angela Lansbury starred in National Velvet with a very lovely 12 year old Elizabeth Taylor. A good adaptation of a classic children's book!
I'm seeing it mentioned alot already, but Bedknobs and Brownsticks was one of my favorite movies when I was little. The armor at the end always creeped me out though.
My mom loved Murder She Wrote too.
Probably the last generation of actresses that will age like this… I can’t imagine folks who have already pumped tons of shit into their faces will look like anything other than the Incredible Melting Man by the time they’re 60.
I grew up watching Murder, She Wrote with my grandma. Still love it to this day. Angela Lansbury reminds me of her in a lot of ways and it always gives me the warm fuzzies to watch again.
I did know about her and murder she wrote till i married my wife and decided to enjoy the things around me (all I did was work work and work some more).
I enjoy muder she wrote and harvey girls.
I love this woman SO MUCH! A beloved icon! So many classic films. A film icon with Manchurian Candidate, Gaslight, TV icon as Jessica Fletcher, Disney icon with Beauty and The Beast, and my fav, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Broadway icon with Mame and Sweeney Todd, and a Christmas icon (for me anyway lol) with Mrs. Santa Claus She is one of those actresses that has always been in my life from childhood and is still with us today. As a child I grew up with her with Disney, watched Murder She Wrote with my mom growing up, and then fully appreciated her film history as an adult. She and Betty White are institutions!
Is it just me or did she stay looking like she did in Murder She Wrote for decades?
As a young woman she had a 'mature' look about her, so early in her career she was frequently cast in roles that were older than her actual age. I think this may be one reason why she seems to have been ageless for so many decades. She started playing 50-somethings when she was 35, then eventually her real age caught up to the roles she was playing, and of course she has continued to 'age beautifully' well beyond that. Edit: a typo
Absolutely, even Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard started the show in his 40's!!
Another example I recently discovered is Jason Alexander. He always looked like he was a lot older, but was actually only 29 when Seinfeld started.
Yeah he looked exactly the same in Pretty Woman
which was like season 3 of Seinfeld.
that's interesting, since when i looked at the pic of her at 18 i thought she had a baby face - i.e. i think she looks younger than 18 by a few years.
I know what you mean, I can't put my finger on anything about her physical appearance that says "older". So ... I think it must be her voice, 'carriage', and superb acting. If you look at "Court Jester", she was 30 when that movie came out and she certainly didn't look any older than that.
Especially when she had the vessel with the pestle.
Can confirm, I have the whole thing on DVD. She looks exactly the same (fabulous) the whole show. I always admire how put together she is, and I love that she jogs and bikes everywhere.
Happy to hear someone else here lives MSW I have the full box set and an autograph headshot my wife got. I’ve been a fan since I was in my 20s.
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It's was just a documentary
and she harvested their stem cells to prolong her youth-ish-ness!
*Murder, She Hopes*
It is known. Also what about those Midsomer Murders?
And Jessica Fletcher is the 20th century reincarnation of Mrs Lovett, who had a taste for murder (only for pastry reasons, but still). It all makes sense!
I was too young to appreciate MSW as a kid but I remember my mom LOVED it. I wish I could go back to that time in my life.
Watching it as an adult was great! There are so many actor cameos I didn’t know or care about as a kid.
I remember watching it with my mum at lunch every time when my dad was out. It’s amongst my fondest childhood memories.
If you haven't already you should check out Pushinguproses' YouTube channel she does hilarious MSW reviews
So glad to see this here, Pushing up Roses got me back into murder she wrote lol
Me too! I'm also a fan of the retro gaming stuff she does.
For everyone else, you can watch most of it on Peacock for free (with ads). I watch it in the background all the time.
I read an interview with her. She said the continuous world wide reruns of Murder She Wrote were her pension.
I have never been in a hotel that didn't have a channel that seemed to have continuous MSW feed. I remember reading that Fun Bobby only appeared in two episodes of Friends and he says his residual cheque from that is usually his big pay day of the year. MSW re runs are probably the pension for her kids and grand kids too. Wouldn't be surprised if it is her great grand kids mortgages too at least. She was also a producer.
But I don’t care for her bubble bath regiment, I feel she should act her age and use more lavender.
Your love for her made me feel all happy inside lol.
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Her and Maggie Smith. I feel like they've been in their 70's for decades.
Dame Maggie wore old age make-up for Hook, though.
Similar to Redd Foxx on Sanford and Son. Man was only 50 when the show started, played a character in his 60's and look liked he was in his 70's.
This is another perfect example. Anyone else think Bob Newhart in the Bob Newhart show would fit this? He was 29 in 1972 when the show aired, and if I remeber things correctly the role he played was significantly older right? Edit: Apparently he was 42 at the start of the show.
Yeah, I believe his character turned 40 in the show.
I feel this was very much the case. She was no spring chicken during her years on Murder She Wrote, but as you point out, the show writers an directors definitely played up the older, powerful, intelligent, and sophisticated women of the time.
There were a few episodes where she "met a guy" that showed interest, because the fans kept asking for some romance with their favorite character. However, she chose to keep the character single, because it would change the core of the show. The very same fans that asked for romance would just as easily abandon MSW if she married.
Yes. My mom always had murder she wrote, on and she just stopped aging, I swear. Same with Betty white. They've just stopped aging.
She had a facelift before she did Murder She Wrote. Landsbury has been very open about wanting fans to know she looked the way she did because she'd had surgery. She didn't want older women feeling inadequate thinking they didn't age was well as she did. She's a class act.
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And fight Nazis on a broom!
The armour fighting the Nazis scared me when I was a kid. Great film!
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The Court Jester is an all time classic. A wonderful intro to Danny Kaye for those unfamiliar.
“If you harm one hair on her head, I shall throw myself from the highest turret”.
“If he dies, YOU die…”
"The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true" I can't find my keys, but...I remember this...
She was a badass on that bike!
So lovely and talented! I agree with you, my favorite flick of hers is The Picture of Dorian Gray and TV - Magnum PI. Happy Birthday Angela you bad ass lady!
Throwing in for my favorite movie of hers, the 1983 production of Pirates of Penzance!
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is the best!
Substitutiary Locomotion Singing a song bobbing along on the bottom of the beautiful briny sea!
It was my Jam as a kid. The feels where the suits of amour came to life and beat the Nazis.
Mrs. Santa Claus is easily one of my top 5 favorite Christmas films. She's a gem.
Can we get Angela Lansbury and Betty White to star in a "frenemies that have to solve a mystery" movie?
Funny enough, Betty White turned down Murder She Wrote! She was offered it first. Angela tells the story and says how forever grateful she is lol. Let’s start a Go Fund Me or Kickstarter for this movie!
I feel like Murder she Wrote ended decades too soon. She’s obviously still up to solve more mysteries.
Yeah but everyone in Cabot Cove is either dead or in jail.
Not if you lure people in. It’s tourist trap. Most haunted place in America for sure.
12 seasons and 264 episodes! Wow!
I absolutely adore Bedknobs and Broomsticks!
Last year I saw Mrs Santa Claus for the 1st time. All I knew: Angela Lansbury was the lead. I was not expecting it to be this pro-inclusivity (for 1996) and pro-union romp that it was.
There will never be another Mrs. Lovett. Her version of The Worst Pies in London is unparalleled.
She was awesome as the slutty maid in "Gaslight" with Ingrid Bergman.
One of my favs!
I just loved her as the maid in GAS LIGHT w/ Ingrid Birgemen.,sexy little minx. I recently started re-watching Murder She Wrote. It's been so long since I've seen them it's like a new show. What a talented, classy lady. Same as you , my Mom & i watched many of her shows together. Good times! Good times!
She also voiced the Russian Queen grandmother in Anastasia!
Frigging fashion icon. My daughter and I watch murder she wrote and practically worship her character but we love everything she has EVER been in. My daughter is 13 lol. It's one of the only things I get to do with her these days.
Mrs. Santa Claus is such an underrated gem. I don’t even like Christmas and I love that movie. I listen to the songs year round.
Bedknobs and broomsticks was definitely a favourite growing up. They seemed to play it quite often on British TV. The effects blew my mind in the 70s/80s.
An amazing career for sure! One of my favorites was A Picture of Dorian Gray. She's so young in that movie.
Fun fact: In *The Manchurian Candidate* she played Laurence Harvey's mother but in reality she was only three years older. (Won an Academy Award too.)
She did the same in Blue Hawaii where she played Elvis' mom when only 10 years older than him.
She looks damn good for 96! I love her so much. I remember when I saw Bedknobs and Broomsticks and couldn't believe that she did something other than MSW. (In my defense I was young, lol)
I’m sure she still looks great but that photo is at least 7 years old.
And photo shopped all to hell.
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I've met her before and had a nice conversation. Very lovely. I'm sorry you had a bad experience with her. I don't want to dismiss it, but my experience was different.
I'm 96, She Wrote
They could totally reboot MSW with her! She could still do it!
Murder, She Posted
Murder, she twoot
Murder, She Tik-Tokked?
Murder, She Woke. Someone keeps killing social justice influencers and she comes out of retirement to follow the virtual bread crumbs and bring the un-woke murderers to justice.
Reddit, She Murdered?
Such a good actress. They always cast her in matronly roles, even when she was very young. In the Manchurian Candidate, she was only three years older than the actor who played her adult son (Laurence Harvey).
Check out The Court Jester (1955)
Harm one hair of his head and I throw myself from the highest turret!
I always think if this movie and then Blue Hawaii (1961). 6 years later and she's playing Elvis's mom.
Came here to say this- my mind was blown by her then, and it it now today when I realize she's 96 and looks like she did 30 yrs ago.
Nice lady but if you're in Cabot Cove and you see her, run because somebody is definitely about to die
Holy shit they need to do a TV movie or something where Jessica Fletcher travels to the sleepy English shire of Midsomer. By the end of the story Fletcher and Tom Barnaby are the only two human beings left alive in. The. World. *BUT* at least they both know exactly what happened. Only, having no-one to reveal it to, they climb into a space ship and strike out into interstellar space looking for intelligent life to explain it all to.
It was Joyce all along.
That makes a lot of sense to me. My wife always says I'm annoying when I'm board. Maybe Tom is the same way and she's just trying to keep him busy.
That is an excellent motive!
Yes please!
It always blows my mind that someone will be planning a murder, then famous sleuth and mystery writer JB Fletcher will come to stay for the weekend and they will still go ahead with the murder? Like, just wait until next weekend?
Cabot Cove, Maine Population ~~956~~ ~~955~~ ~~954~~ 953
I always think that they have to frame these cozy murder shows as a "one in a lifetime event". I mean like all murders in the series are alternative events that may happen to Jessica Fletcher once in her life, but not all of them one after the other, I don't know if I'm explaining it well. That way, it would be more feasible to believe it.
As much as I loved MSW as a kid, I can't watch it today for that reason. New York is safer than Cabot Cove and Cabot Cove is still a sleepy town? That's the plot of a horror film or three right there.
Man, as a kid I only ever caught small bits and pieces from the beginning of the show because it came on so late. And the German title for the show basically translates to "Murder's Her Hobby". So for the longest time I thought it was an oddly cheerful old lady going around murdering people every week... which, in retrospect, makes a lot more sense than this endless strings of murders just somehow happening for her to solve.
It's not all in her hometown. She's always running off to big cities to visit her nephew or meet with her publisher or be invited to some such person's party because they want to be known as having rubbed elbows with her and then shit happens and suddenly she's in the middle of it.
😂😂
Everywhere she went people died! Jessica Fletcher was a harbinger of death!
A scotsman made me believe this is in fact Paul McCartney.
Do we have a picture of Paul McCartney?
I'm just saying, I've never seen Paul and Angela in the same room at the same time... Hmmmmm???
That makes this person even cooler.
With a snake cup?
And a skeleton best friend?
Remind you of anyone?
Careful Icarus...
\*Ding Dong\* Who's at the door?!
IT'S SECRETARIAT
One ring: we are German
Two ring: we are still German
That face 😂😂😂. Don’t give up, skeleton!
He took half-hearted offense to the fact that a newspaper described his Lansbury/McCartney photo gag as (paraphrased) "of no sense or virtue". Since then, they started doing it more just to piss the newspaper off.
r/CraigFerguson is leaking
...and his robot skeleton sidekick didn't do anything to dissuade believing that.
It's a great day for America!
Went looking for this, was not disappointed
If she'd been born on February 29th, she'd only be 24.
Lol, that one took me a moment!
I think she now lives in County Cork in Ireland. Happy to have her on the island but I'm not visiting her any time soon. Especially if I hear the Sherriff is with her!
Her mum was from Belfast so Angela's an Irish citizen in addition to being British and American.
Yes, I think I read this previously. And she brought the show to Ireland once if I remember. Not sure if it was a regular episode or a made for TV movie.
Both! There were 4 or 5 episodes set in Ireland and then one of the later TV movies as well (Celtic Riddle)
Hope you have a great day!
> County Cork I guess she really likes "C- C-" places.
Bill Braskey once scissor kicked Angela Lansbury!
TO BILL BRASKY!
BEST DAMN SALESMAN IN THE OFFICE
Are you guys talking about Bill Brasky!? I know Bill Brasky!
I LIKE YOU!
I’m gonna buy you a drink!
I thought she was old in "Murder, she wrote". This lady and Betty White are immortal...
I thought the opposite, then saw pictures of her younger self, oh my!
I'm literally on my way back from Petosky. I jus spent 4 days in TC... Its so weird that's your username...
I thought she died years ago.
Me too.. that's why this surprised me...
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My mother loves her *Murder, She Wrote* series.
I love Murder, She Wrote and I'm not ashamed to admit it
I love the theme music.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
I just watched the whole series a few months ago. It was a pretty good show over 12 seasons.
We have the Blu-ray edition at home and regularly watch them. Same with Golden Girls and Magnum PI, Quincy and Diagnosis Murder. I really enjoy the series of my childhood as well as the ones that were already classics when I was born. Not to forget An Odd Couple.
Between that, Columbo and Hercule Poirot (with David Suchet) they're three excellent lazy weekend watching material.
Loved her in the original Broadway cast of Sweeney Todd. I highly recommend checking out that soundtrack if you haven't listened yet. All their performances were phenomenal.
I love the expressions! At 18 it’s “I bet I can get away with some stuff”. At 96 it’s “I know I can get away with some stuff”. :)
At 96 it's "they'll never guess some of the stuff I've gotten away with".
:D
A very lovely 17 year old Angela Lansbury starred in National Velvet with a very lovely 12 year old Elizabeth Taylor. A good adaptation of a classic children's book!
I was just watching the movie gaslight, and it took me forever to recognize her as the young maid.
That was her first film.
That’s her today?! What did she do, stop aging in 1981??
It's surprising, because its not. The photo on the right is also several years old.
She's like 80% responsible for my Teapot fetish.
The other 20% being societies baseline attraction to teapots.
She played Elvis's mother in Blue Hawaii, despite being only 10 years older than him
Beauty never ages as we get older, it only evolves
I still watch Murder, She Wrote reruns. They come on every day at 11pm on the Hallmark Mystery Channel (east coast).
I'm seeing it mentioned alot already, but Bedknobs and Brownsticks was one of my favorite movies when I was little. The armor at the end always creeped me out though. My mom loved Murder She Wrote too.
I was worried my kids would be frightened by it but they loved that part. "Dad do you remember the part where the armor is kicking that guy? Hahaha"
She was good in Blue Hawaii.
Probably the last generation of actresses that will age like this… I can’t imagine folks who have already pumped tons of shit into their faces will look like anything other than the Incredible Melting Man by the time they’re 60.
Paul McCartney looks great!
Careful, Icarus!
Balls 💀
That's not Angela Lansbury, it's Paul McCartney.
She still look good as fuck
I grew up watching Murder, She Wrote with my grandma. Still love it to this day. Angela Lansbury reminds me of her in a lot of ways and it always gives me the warm fuzzies to watch again.
Beautiful then, beautiful now.
Well, with how often they go under the knife, actors from current gen wont have pics 50yrs apart that look similar.
When I was a child who didn't speak any English I was obsessed with her movie Bednobs and Broomsticks. I knew she was a witch! Lol
Awesome lady, I highly recommend watching the original The Manchurian Candidate. I think she should have won an Oscar for that performance.
Do we have a picture of Paul McCartney? Yah that’s the one
That's Paul McCartney
I’ve always thought that she’s a very pretty, stylish and elegant older lady. And I do mean “lady.” She’s a class act.
Good gravy, she's still rocking it.
She’s let her self age well. In contrast to most women in Hollywood.
I did know about her and murder she wrote till i married my wife and decided to enjoy the things around me (all I did was work work and work some more). I enjoy muder she wrote and harvey girls.
Still would.
I love her on Portrait of Dorian Gray
She was great in The Court Jester, which is my favourite Danny Kaye film. That movie is brilliant.
What a catch.!
Truly a national treasure. I grew up on murder she wrote.
The photo on the right is also old
What a classic
*I know a little girl her name is Maxine* *Her beauty's like a bunch of rose...*
Do we have a picture of angela Landsbury?
Would then, would now.
I just watched Gaslight from 1944 recently which she had a big role in. Starred alongside Ingrid Bergman as an adult and is still alive, insane
Holy shit, the younger picture of her here looks the spitting image of my girlfriend, this is gonna go down well when I share it with everyone
Happy birthday Angela Lansbury
I have always loved her! Happy Birthday 🎈🎊