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Poll: Viva la Lansbury!

A poll by yrnej

Revered stage, screen and TV actress Angela Lansbury has enjoyed one of the longest careers in show business. Ms. Lansbury shows no signs of slowing down, is still working in all three medias and has said that she will never retire. Let's celebrate her 92nd birthday in October, '17 with this poll. While most people recognize her as Jessica Fletcher from the popular mystery show, Murder, She Wrote or as Mrs. Iselin, the manipulative mother of Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate, in her long career she has played over 100 other roles.

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Results of 268 votes:

1.

Angela Lansbury in Gaslight (1944)

Nancy in Gaslight (1944), 1944
2.

Angela Lansbury in The Harvey Girls (1946)

Em in The Harvey Girls (1946), 1946
3.

Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, and Juanita Quigley in National Velvet (1944)

Edwina Brown in National Velvet (1944), 1944
4.

Angela Lansbury

Countess Aurelia in "Dear World" on Broadway, 1969 (won the Tony for Best Actress)
5.

"Samson and Delilah" Victor Mature, Angela Lansbury 1949 Paramount

Semadar in Samson and Delilah (1949), 1949
6.

Angela Lansbury

Dressed for Halloween as Glinda the Good Witch, date unknown
7.

Angela Lansbury

1945
8.

Angela Lansbury in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Miss Price in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), 1971
9.

Angela Lansbury in The World of Henry Orient (1964)

Isabel Boyd in The World of Henry Orient (1964), 1964
10.

Angela Lansbury

In rehearsal, date unknown
11.

Angela Lansbury

Accepting her honorary Oscar, 2013
12.

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Specialty performer in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), 1946
13.

Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)

Making herself up as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982), 1982 (won the Tony for Best Actress)
14.

Angela Lansbury in Death on the Nile (1978)

Mrs. Salome Otterbourne in Death on the Nile (1978), 1978
15.

Angela Lansbury

1945
16.

Angela Lansbury in The Three Musketeers (1948)

Anne of Austria in The Three Musketeers (1948), 1948
17.

Angela Lansbury and Ann Dvorak in The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)

Clotilde de Marelle in The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947), 1947
18.

Angela Lansbury in Nanny McPhee (2005)

Aunt Adelaide in Nanny McPhee (2005), 2005
19.

Angela Lansbury in A Lawless Street (1955)

Tally Dickenson in A Lawless Street (1955), 1955
20.

Angela Lansbury in The Hoodlum Saint (1946)

Dusty Millard in The Hoodlum Saint (1946), 1946
21.

Angela Lansbury

1950s
22.

Angela Lansbury in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Miss Price in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), 1971
23.

Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)

Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982), 1982 (won the Tony for Best Actress)
24.

Angela Lansbury

With drag artist Brandy Wine at the Acting Company's Annual Masquerade Gala, 2006
25.

Angela Lansbury

1950s
26.

Angela Lansbury

"Mame" on Broadway, 1966 (won the Tony for Best Actress)
27.

Angela Lansbury c. 1950 MGM

MGM Studios, 1950
28.

Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur

With her best friend, Bea Arthur, in "Mame" on Broadway, 1966 (won the Tony for Best Actress)
29.

Angela Lansbury

"Mame" on Broadway, 1966 (won the Tony for Best Actress)
30.

"Pirates of Penzance, The" Angela Lansbury 1982

Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance (1983), 1983
31.

Candice Bergen, Angela Lansbury, John Larroquette, and Michael McKean

Mrs. Sue-Ellen Gamadge in "The Best Man" on Broadway, 2013
32.

Angela Lansbury and Peter Shaw

Marriage to Peter Shaw, 1949
33.

Angela Lansbury

Pic for American Cancer Society, 1967
34.

Angela Lansbury

Anna Leonowens in "The King and I" on Broadway, 1978
35.

Angela Lansbury

Madame Arcati in "Blithe Spirit" in London, 2014 (won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress)