Our Favorite Singing Teapot Dies at 96
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (159008)
Boise, Idaho
October 11, 2022 7:08pm CST
We've lost another great star. Dame Angela Lansbury died peacefully in her sleep today. She was famous for her many acting roles including as a murder mystery writer for 13 seasons of Murder, She Wrote.
Her career spanned over 80 years. She played such roles as a maid in one of my favorites, "Gaslight" with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, and a spy in "The Manchurian Candidate", even a singing teapot in "Beauty and the Beast" in 2017.
But she also played characters such as "Gypsy" in 1975 and the ghoulish pie-maker Nellie Lovett in "Sweeney Todd: The Devil Barber of Fleet Street" in 1979.
14 people like this
14 responses
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
12 Oct 22
Wasn't she also the tuppence-a-bag bird-lady in Mary Poppins Returns?
3 people like this
@celticeagle (159008)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Oct 22
She sure was. A lot of work we have to enjoy.
2 people like this
@celticeagle (159008)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Oct 22
@RubyHawk ......I do too. I have always enjoyed her work.
1 person likes this
@RubyHawk (99425)
• Atlanta, Georgia
12 Oct 22
@celticeagle I see Murder She Wrote every once in awhile and occasionally another of her movies.
1 person likes this
@celticeagle (159008)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Oct 22
She was good as the tea pot. Enjoyed her performances a lot.
1 person likes this
@xander6464 (40872)
• Wapello, Iowa
12 Oct 22
My favorite of hers is Blue Hawaii. She played Elvis' mom, even though she was only nine years older than he was.
1 person likes this
@celticeagle (159008)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Oct 22
She did so much. She was acting in the 40's. 80 years of material. I am so thankful we have her work to see any time we want to see her.
@MarieCoyle (28478)
•
12 Oct 22
She was an icon. My favorite aunt just loved watching her.
1 person likes this
@BarBaraPrz (45484)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
12 Oct 22
Yeah, I saw that... but you know that old saying, "Life: no one gets out alive."
@celticeagle (159008)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Oct 22
I'm glad there is so much she did that we can still enjoy.
@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
13 Oct 22
I remember the singing teapot but am not sure that I ever paid attention to anything else she was in. (I'm sure I saw her but just don't remember her in anything.)
@JudyEv (325755)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Oct 22
She also played an older sister to Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet, along with a youthful Mickey Rooney.
