Angela Lansbury Biography

Angela Lansbury received an Oscar nomination for her first film, Gaslight, in 1944, and has been winning acting awards and audience favor ever since. Born in London to a family that included both politicians and performers, Lansbury came to the U.S. during World War II. She made notable early film appearances as the snooty sister in National Velvet (1944); the pathetic singer in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), which garnered her another Academy nomination; and the madam-with-a-heart-of-gold saloon singer in The Harvey Girls (1946). She turned evil as the manipulative publisher in State of the Union (1948), but was just as convincing as the good queen in The Three Musketeers (1948) and the petulant daughter in The Court Jester (1956). She received another Oscar nomination for her chilling performance as Laurence Harvey's scheming mother in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and appeared as the addled witch in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), among other later films. On Broadway, she won Tony awards for the musicals Mame (1966), Dear World (1969), the revival of Gypsy (1975), and Sweeney Todd (1979). Despite a season in the '50s on the game show Pantomime Quiz, she came to series television late, starring in 1984-1996 as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote; she took over as producer of the show in the '90s. She returned to the Disney studios to record the voice of Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast (1991) and to sing the title song. Lansbury is the sister of TV producer Bruce Lansbury. ~ Rovi

• 1. Mommy Fortuna: [laughs maniacally] Not alone! You could have never freed yourselves alone! I held you! [The Harpy, Celaeno, swoops down and kills her]
  From The Last Unicorn. Submitted by Nhia T (2 months ago)

• 1. Mommy Fortuna: You belong to me!
  2. Unicorn: You know better. Keep your shadows, if you will, but let me go. And let her go. I cannot see her caged. She is real, like me. We are two sides of the same magic. Let her go.
  3. Mommy Fortuna: I'd quit show business first!
  From The Last Unicorn. Submitted by Nhia T (2 months ago)

• 1. Edwina Brown: We're alike. I, too, believe that everyone should have a chance at a breathtaking piece of folly once in his life. I was twenty when they said a woman couldn't swim the Channel. You're twelve; you think a horse of yours can win the Grand National. Your dream has come early; but remember, Velvet, it will have to last you all the rest of your life.
  From National Velvet. Submitted by Pamela B (3 months ago)

• 1. Edwina Brown: That'll be a dispute to the end of time, Mr. Brown, whether it's better to do the right thing for the wrong reason or the wrong thing for the right reason.
  From National Velvet. Submitted by Pamela B (3 months ago)

• 1. Sophie: I will ask very hard questions.
  2. Empress Dowager Marie Fedorovna: No. My heart can't take it anymore. I will see no more girls claiming to be Anastasia.
  From Anastasia. Submitted by Ceara R (5 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. Potts: Tales as old as time, song as old as rhyme, Beauty and the Beast.
  From Beauty and the Beast. Submitted by Doug N (13 months ago)