Dame Angela Lansbury had portrayed the "good" characters in a decades-long career with Movies, TV and Broadway... There was one role though that gave Angela deep range as an actress. It's in the 1962 film, "The Manchurian Candidate." She portrayed a mother whose ambition helps her husband in politics at Washington D.C. The loving mom also knew that her son had been brainwashed during the Korean War.
She began to brainwash her fragile "boy" to kill her husband's political rival. She stopped at nothing to gain power and it was completely diabolical. Watch this classic film and you'll see a very different Angela Lansbury. What a performance.!!!
The 1962 film was remade in 2004 with Meryl Streep as the mother. I didn't watch it because Angela Lansbury made the role too good to beat. She won her 3rd Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress for "Candidate."
Yes - We will always remember Angela in "Murder, She Wrote" and "Beauty and the Beast." Plus, her Broadway Tony winner, "Mame." But... I will never forget her performance in "The Manchurian Candidate." Rest in Peace Miss Lansbury...
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