Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury had a long career that is notable for how successfully she worked in theater, movies and television. In this podcast episode, HCC film professors Marie Westhaver and Mike Giuliano discuss the late actress. After escaping the blitz in her native England in 1940, she and her mother went to Hollywood, where Lansbury had memorable supporting roles in "Gaslight" (1944) and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945). Although she never became a major movie star, she had great supporting roles epitomized by the monstrous mother she played in "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962). She was a major star on Broadway, though, where she appeared in musicals including "Mame" (1966) and "Sweeney Todd" (1979). And in television, she had a large and loyal audience for "Murder, She Wrote" (1984- 1996).

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