Angela Lansbury

Past Honorees of this organization have included Jamie Lee Curtis and Sir Anthony Hopkins. She died in Los Angeles, California, of lung cancer. Lansbury has graciously agreed to be the Guest of Honor at the 14th annual Gala and Fundraiser on April 16, 2005 for Women in Recovery, Inc., a Venice, California-based non-profit organization offering a live-in, 12-Step program of rehabilitation for women in need. Her near-pathological fear of germs did not interfere with her career. Today, Lansbury, a longtime resident of Brentwood, California takes time to support various philanthropic groups. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the role, and repeated it in nine more films. Lansbury's two twin brothers, Edgar Lansbury, was the producer of Godspell, the smash-hit broadway musical, in the 1970s. She played Ma Kettle in The Egg and I in 1947 opposite Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle.

A footnote is that one of Ms. She made six comedies with Wallace Beery in the 1940s. Interestingly, Lansbury was related by her half-sister Isolde's marriage to the late British actor, Peter Ustinov, and is today related by marriage of her stepson David Lansbury to the American actress Ally Sheedy. She again transferred a strong stage performance, as a dude ranch operator in The Women, to film in 1939. Lansbury's daughter, Deirdre Angela Shaw Battarrais, along with her Italian husband Enzo, today is co-manager of a popular cafe, Ristorante Positano, in West Los Angeles. She repeated her stage role in Dead End in the movie version of 1937, and was subsequently cast repeatedly as the mother of gangsters. Her son, Anthony, was producer/director of Murder She Wrote, and is today a television executive. She married Stanley LeFevre Krebs, who died in 1935.

Lansbury is the mother of two, stepmother of one, and a proud grandmother several times over. She began playing upper class dowagers, but was ultimately typecast in abrasive, domineering, salty roles: her distinct voice was like chalk upon a blackboard. Until Shaw's death in 2003, Lansbury enjoyed one of the longest and most prolific of show-business marriages. Her first film was A House Divided in 1931. Lansbury's career. She worked in vaudeville on the Chautauqua and Orpheum circuits, and debuted on Broadway in 1916. Shaw was instrumental in guiding and managing Ms. Born in Acton, Indiana as Mary Tomlinson, she attended Franklin College, in Franklin, Indiana. She adopted a stage name to avoid embarrassing her father, who was a minister.

Lansbury was briefly married from 1945-46 to American actor Richard Cromwell when she was 19 and Cromwell was 35. In 1948, Lansbury remarried, to Irish-born actor and businessman Peter Shaw. Marjorie Main (24 February 1890-10 April 1975) was an American character actress who was best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies. She recieved a a Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, and Kennedy Center Honors in 2000. The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm - 1957- Ma Kettle. She was named a Disney Legend in 1995. Friendly Persuasion - 1956. In the early 1990s the British Government awarded Angela Lansbury the CBE. The Kettles in the Ozarks - 1956 - Ma Kettle.

It was to be one of the longest running prime time detective drama series in US TV history and made her one of the highest paid actresses in the world and a record as the most nominated lead actress without a win in the prime time Emmy awards (with 12 nominations). Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki - 1955 - Ma Kettle. As Jessica Fletcher in the long-running television series, Murder, She Wrote (1984 - 1996), she found her biggest success and a worldwide following. Ricochet Romance - 1954. She has received a Tony nomination for every lead role she has essayed on Broadway. Rose Marie - 1954. Lovett in Sondheim's ballad opera Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street earned her yet another Tony Award in 1979. Ma and Pa Kettle at Home - 1954 - Ma Kettle.

Her English music-hall turn as meat-pie entrepreneuse Mrs. The Long, Long Trailer - 1954. Subsequent Tony awards were earned for Dear World (1969) and the first Broadway revival of Gypsy (1974). Fast Company - 1953. Her appearance in 1966's Mame earned Lansbury her first Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation - 1953 - Ma Kettle. Lansbury has received good reviews from her very first musical outing, the short-lived 1964 Stephen Sondheim musical Anyone Can Whistle. Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair - 1952 - Ma Kettle.

She also did character work as the Dowager Empress in the less well-received animated film Anastasia in 1997. The Belle of New York - 1952. Potts in the Disney hit Beauty and the Beast (1991). A Letter from a Soldier - 1951. She then turned to character voice work in animated films like The Last Unicorn (1984), winning a great deal of praise for her affectionate turn as the singing teapot Mrs. It's a Big Country - 1951. She also played Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd (1981). The Law and the Lady - 1951.

She also received a Golden Globe as a similarly distant mother in the comedy, The World of Henry Orient. Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm - 1951 - Ma Kettle. Her performance in The Manchurian Candidate (1963) as the evil, manipulative mother who turned her son into an assassin won much praise and a third Oscar nomination. Imperium - 1951. She made her Academy Award nominated film debut in 1944, in the Charles Boyer/Ingrid Bergman film Gaslight, followed by another Oscar nomination for the Oscar Wilde film The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and has since enjoyed a long and varied career, mainly as a film actress, appearing in everything from Samson and Delilah (1949) to Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). Mr. Angela Lansbury (born October 16, 1925) is a British-born American actress and the granddaughter of politician George Lansbury. Malone - 1951.

O'Malley and Mr. Mrs. Summer Stock - 1950. Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town - 1950 - Ma Kettle.

The Harvey Girls - 1946. Murder, He Says - 1945. Gentle Annie - 1944. Louis - 1944.

Meet Me in St. Rationing - 1944. Johnny Come Lately - 1943. Heaven Can Wait - 1943.