No.on alone Lady in yellow and movie and theater stars, Angela Lansbury, disappeared yesterday at the age of 96it was also (perhaps above all) a attentive mother And ready to give up everything (even a career) for the children. It is not just a memory reported by those who knew her, but what emerges from a fact that really happened, told many times by the star in several interviews (the most detailed at Daily Mail in 2014)
Angela Lansbury left Malibu to save her daughter
In the late 1960s, Angela was still not loved Jessica Fletcher, but the absolute Broadway star residing in Malibu. Children Deidre And Anthony they were teenagers, as curious about life as they were naive and dreamers. Those were the years of hippies and flower children. In America they were also the years of Manson family, the community created by the former prisoner Charles Manson, charismatic man obsessed with esotericism, hypnotism and subliminal conditioningwhich he collected with his sermons crowds of admirers and followers. All young people, especially girls, who, looking for freedom, they found themselves living by peddling and were subjugated by the oratory ability of this holy man.
Angela Lansbury and daughter Deidre in 2000. (Getty Images)
Charles Manson, ruthless killer
The “holy man” Charles Manson soon revealed itself for what it was: a ruthless killer, instigator of two bloody events that remain in the criminal history of the United States. One is the massacre of Heaven Drivein which five people died, the other is the murder of the top manager Leno LaBianca and his wife. Both committed in ’69 from the Manson family.
The decision to move to Ireland
To the Mail Angela told that terrible and frightening period. “There were factions in the hills above Malibu that engaged in deadly pursuits. It pains me to say it but, at some point, Deidre was in the crowd led by Charles Manson. She was one of the many young people who knew him and were fascinated by him. She was an extraordinary character, charismatic in many ways, no doubt ». Anthony instead he was heroin addict.
Fearing the worstAngela and her husband Peter Shaw, actor and producer, made the decision to leave. It was the only way to take the children with them and remove them from Manson’s influence. “I was attracted to Ireland, ”she continues Lansbury, “Because it was my mother’s birthplace and it was also a place where my children would no longer be exposed to bad influences.”
The actress has therefore found a home in County Cork. For a year he refused job offers, but it was worth it. In a short time both children lost their “bad habits”. Desidretoday 69 years oldshe then married and returned to Los Angeles with her husband where she opened an Italian restaurant. Anthony, Now 70 years old, he is a producer and director and he has directed numerous episodes of Murder, she wrote.
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