We all know and love Angela Lansbury from Murder She Wrote, plus she was the voice of Mrs. Potts in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. However she didn’t start out in life as a middle-aged crime-solving widow (or a singing teapot). Back in the 40s and 50s she looked rather different and played a huge variety of roles: from saucy showgirls to romantic heroines. Take a look below, oh and don’t miss the clip of her as a saucy cockney showgirl below!
Angela Lansbury, three-quarter length portrait, seated with daughter Deidre and son Anthony / World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins. 1957
Photo of Nigel Davenport as Peter and Angela Lansbury as Helen in the Broadway play A Taste of Honey. 1960
Cropped screenshot of Angela Lansbury from the film Till the Clouds Roll By.1946
Angela Lansbury (left) and her mother Moyna MacGill, on the set of Kind Lady (1951)
Publicity photo 1950
Angela Lansbury as Helen and Joan Plowright as her daughter, Jo, survey their new flat in the Broadway presentation of A Taste of Honey. 1961
Screenshot from the 1945 movie The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Very interesting article about the author of Murder She Wrote before she became famous. I had absolutely no idea.
I have seen several of these vintage AL pics. The first one was Dorian Grey…and I recognized her immediately. She has not lost one bit of her beauty!
Manchurian candidate, not much older than (was it frank Sinatra?)