Blow a kiss. Take a bow.

Today is the 87th birthday of a truly wonderful icon - an inspiration for showbiz queens everywhere, Miss Angela Brigid Lansbury!

Quite rightly, we have Miss Lansbury in the top row of our pantheon of patron saints, and I have paid tribute to the lady on many occasions before - and will do again, no doubt.

Complementing her screen roles/vocal characterisation in Gaslight, The Manchurian Candidate, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Beauty and the Beast and of course Murder She Wrote, Miss Lansbury is THE star of Broadway - Gypsy, Mame, Sweeney Todd and A Little Night Music being her triumphs. We love her, and hope her much-anticipated "final" West End stage appearance does indeed take place, so we can finally see the grande dame in the flesh...

Here she is in glittering form, performing her show-stopper Mame at the 1975 Tony awards:

Angela Lansbury - Mame

Here, she tackles one of our eternal theme tunes here at Dolores Delargo Towers, Everything's Coming Up Roses:

Angela Lansbury - Everything's Coming Up Roses

...and after that, it's time for some gentle exercise:

Angela Lansbury - Positive Moves

I'm exhausted! Yet she's 87!

Angela Lansbury on Wikipedia