Lto Lady in Yellow he left us. As soon as the news of the death of Angela Lansbury has been around the world, have been endless demonstrations of affection of all towards the actress and icon of many generations. With the role of her as the protagonist in the US series Murder, She Wrote (in Italy Murder, she wrote) became one of the most present faces on television. Italian and beyond. Writer and detective Jessica Fletcher has given the investigative genre an increasingly popular connotation. And it is inevitable that today it is not just the fans of the television series who are mourning his death. But all of them. Because an important piece of international television is gone.
The disappearance a few days after the 97th birthday
This Sunday, October 16th, he would have turned 97. Angela Lansbury passed away in Los Angeles, surrounded by her loved ones. The American-born British-Irish actress she was also a voice actress and writer. Since childhood a lover of acting (she studied this in England, before fleeing to America following the bombing of London), gets his first job as a singer and stand-up comedian in a Montreal night club. He had just turned 16 but to get the job he said he was 19.
The mother, a friend of some personalities who worked in the cinema, helps her do it some tryouts for MGM and immediately Angela Lansbury enjoys one huge popularity (she is even nominated for an Oscar for the film Anguish from 1944 when he was only 19 and for the film The portrait of Dorian Gray of the following year, with which he then won a Golden Globe).
The list of his films is very long. Among others there are Harvey’s girls (1946), The dishonest (1947, film adaptation of Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant), Sinless sinners (1948), The state of the union (1948), The Three Musketeers (1948), Samson and Delilah (1949), The door of mystery (1953), I without God (1955), The long hot summer (1958) and Go and kill (1962, which allows her to conquer the third Academy Award nomination and the second Golden Globe).
Angela Lansbury. (Getty Images)
Angela Lansbury, between cinema, television and theater
In 1971 participates in the Disney movie Brass knobs and broomsticks and in 1980 plays Miss Marple in Murder in the mirror. The list includes many other titles. The last of these is from 2018 and it is de The Return of Mary Poppins.
Moreover, Angela Lansbury also lends her voice in cartoons how The last unicorn (1982) and The beauty and the Beast (1991). His interpretation of the passage Beauty and the Beast makes her win an Oscar for Best Original Song in 1992. Another Oscar also arrives in 2014: is that career for “his various successes in the film and television industry, during his long career”.
Many successes in the artistic history of Angela Lansbury, from theater to cinema, to television. But certainly the most important – the one that made her famous in every part of the globe – is the one that derives from her having been Jessica Fletcher in the show Murder, she wrote (in the original version: Murder, She Wrote). It is about one of the longest running shows in prime time on US television. And not surprisingly, thanks to this role, Lansbury – interpreter of a detective and famous author of detective novels, former English teacher – becomes the highest paid television actress in the world.
The series set in Cabot Cove – invented town, in Maine – gets an infinity of awards: two Golden Globes out of six nominations and two Emmy Award nominations. The protagonist herself takes home ten Golden Globe and twelve Emmy nominations. The debut in America arrives on 30 September 1984. In our country, on the other hand, on 1 June 1988: it airs on Rai Uno and Rete Quattro.
The meeting with his voice actress Alina Moradei
To give voice to Angela Lansbury for the Italian audience, the voice actress Alina Moradei. Dubbing actress and actress had met, on the occasion of the International Grand Prix of Entertainment, on May 4, 1999 at the Teatro Ventaglio Nazionale in Milan (now only: Teatro Nazionale). On that occasion Angela Lansbury had received a Telegatto. About her Yours Murder, she wrote had been rewarded as Best cult broadcast.
After having awarded the actress, the two conductors of the evening Pippo Baudo and Milly Carlucci they had introduced Alina Moradei to herItalian voice actress who lent her voice to the character of Jessica Fletcher.
The emotion of the Italian actress and voice actress (who died in 2016 at 88 for a pomonite) had been enormous. As well as that of Lansbury herself, whom she said to herself “very happy that such a lovely actress like her is taking care of my voice in Italy“.
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