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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Angela Lansbury

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


Dame Angela was not like the other flighty young things in Forties Hollywood, fluffing out their skirts and flashing their assets. She could (and still can) act, communicating an intelligence to an audience via the screen

Born to a prosperous family in London in 1925, Lansbury's story hooks you: she is a first-generation U.S. immigrant, a native Englishwoman - a grandfather, George Lansbury, was leader of the Labour Party - who, although she is now a U.S. citizen, still sounds grandly Anglo. Lansbury belongs to Hollywood’s early years ...

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3037801/Angela-Lansbury-s-ultimate-showbiz-survivor-Olivier-award-89-proves-writes-QUENTIN-LETTS.html#ixzz3XINdywUX 


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