Angela Lansbury

Trivia of Angela Lansbury (16 October 1925 - 11 October 2022)

*Angela Lansbury first became interested in the performing arts at the age of nine after her father's untimely death from stomach cancer. She turned to acting as a way to cope with her grief. Angela immigrated to the United States in 1940, after her family was forced to flee Liverpool due to World War II.Angela moved to Los Angeles in 1942 and was able to sign a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer to appear in 11 films with the studio, thanks to her mother's excellent networking skills.

*She received an Oscar nomination for her very first feature film at the age of 17 in 1944.In the MGM film Gaslight, alongside Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.However, she didn't take home the award. Later, she would go on to be nominated twice more in her career without ever winning the coveted Oscar.

*Her first movie with lifelong friend, Elizabeth Taylor was National Velvet (1944). 35 years later, they reunited in The Mirror Crack'd (1980). Lansbury had been considered for the Giant (1956) role of Taylor's sister-in-law Luz but Mercedes McCambridge had been cast.

*Though cast as Hedy Lamarr's older sister in Samson and Delilah (1949), Angela Lansbury was ten years younger than Lamarr.But in an interview, Lansbury once stated that her nicest co-star was Hedy Lamarr, calling her sweet, loving, kind and considerate to everybody on the set, actor or crewman.

*She played as Elvis Presley's mother in Blue Hawaii (1961).The first of several movies in which Angela Lansbury played a mother and a rare maternal Lansbury role: more typical would be her mother-from-hell role in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). She was only 10 years Elvis Presley's senior, while in Manchurian Candidate Lansbury become Laurence Harvey's mother who just 3 years younger than her.

*She has two spots in the Guinness World Records book : "Most Prolific Amateur Sleuth" and "Most Tony Awards won for Best Actress in a Musical".

*In 2013, Angela Lansbury accepted an honorary Oscar for her over 70 years in the entertainment business .She never official retire for act till her death in October 2022.Her final screen appearance was murder mystery movie in 2022 , Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.