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:
Here, she tackles one of our eternal theme tunes here at Dolores Delargo Towers,
Everything's Coming Up Roses:
...and after that, it's time for some gentle exercise:
I'm exhausted! Yet she's 87!
Angela Lansbury on Wikipedia
