"Sweeney Todd" Angela Lansbury Hand Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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"Sweeney Todd" Angela Lansbury Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury
DBE
(born 16 October 1925) is a British-Irish-American actress and singer who has played many film, theatre, and television roles. Her career has spanned almost eight decades, much of it in the United States. Her work has received much international attention and she is recognised as the earliest surviving
Academy Award
nominee and one of the last surviving stars from the
Golden Age of Hollywood
cinema. Lansbury was born to an upper-middle-class family in central London, the daughter of Irish actress
Moyna Macgill
and English politician
Edgar Lansbury
. To escape
the Blitz
, in 1940 she moved to the United States, there studying acting in
New York City
. Proceeding to Hollywood in 1942, she signed to
MGM
and obtained her first film roles, in
Gaslight
(1944) and
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(1945), earning her two
Oscar
nominations and a
Golden Globe Award
. She appeared in 11 further MGM films, mostly in minor roles, and after her contract ended in 1952 she began supplementing her cinematic work with theatrical appearances. Although largely seen as a
B-list
star during this period, her appearance in the film
The Manchurian Candidate
(1962) received widespread acclaim and is cited as being one of her finer performances. Moving into musical theatre, Lansbury first worked with
Stephen Sondheim
in
Anyone Can Whistle
(1964), before Lansbury finally gained stardom for playing the leading role in
Jerry Herman
's
Broadway
musical
Mame
(1966), which earned her her first
Tony Award
and established her as a
gay icon
. Amid difficulties in her personal life, Lansbury moved from California to
County Cork
, Ireland in 1970, and continued with a variety of theatrical and cinematic appearances throughout that decade. These included leading roles in the stage musicals
Gypsy
,
Sweeney Todd
, and
The King and I
, as well as in the hit
Disney
film
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
(1971). Moving into television in 1984, she achieved worldwide fame as fictional writer and sleuth
Jessica Fletcher
in the American
whodunit
series
Murder, She Wrote
, which ran for 12 seasons until 1996, becoming one of the longest-running and most popular detective drama series in television history. Through
Corymore Productions
, a company that she co-owned with her husband
Peter Shaw
, Lansbury assumed ownership of the series and was its executive producer for the final four seasons. She also moved into voice work, contributing to animated films like Disney's
Beauty and the Beast
(1991) and
Don Bluth
's
Anastasia
(1997). Since then, she has toured in a variety of international productions and continued to make occasional film appearances. Lansbury has received an
Honorary Academy Award
and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the
BAFTA
and has won five
Tony Awards
, six
Golden Globes
, and an
Olivier Award
. She has also been nominated for numerous other industry awards, including the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
on three occasions, and various
Primetime Emmy Awards
on 18 occasions, and a
Grammy Award
. In 2014, Lansbury was made a
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
by
Queen Elizabeth II
. She has been the subject of three biographies.