Absolutely!

Mike Basil Almost unbelievable that 20 years later she was playing the adorable mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote. Yes she really was the same actor.

@@ralphficker167 And 20 years earlier (or thereabouts) this lady was a smoldering siren. Check out some of her early films when she was in the full bloom of her youth. I very much love when a talented actress can span a career across several decades. There are not many.

I agree Mrs. Iselin is right up there with Darth Vader. I think it speaks volumes that she and Meryl Streep played Eleanor Iselin it two separate adaptations of The Manchurian Candidate, and it was Lansbury and not Meryl who did it better!

We will not see the likes of this magnificent woman every again!❤

Pushed the 👍 but then took it back to keep the number at "57" !

She was Queen of France in The three Musketeers, with Lana Turner & Gene Kelly.

@Spam Houston She was, lost out to Patty Duke.

It's also a totally relevant movie. It sprang to mind as I watched the coverage of the 2016 and 2020 Presidential elections.

Agreed Elizabeth Taylor,Rosalind Russell,Susan Hayward also come to mind.Far out would be Anna Mangania and Marie Dressler. (?).Anne Bancroft All could have put their spin on it.What about Margaret Hamilton or a humorous choice like Majorie Main?Etc.

At the very least she should have been Tied with Patty Duke ...

Yes. Hollywood never appreciated Miss Lansbury. She MADE “Mame” on Broadway and then they snubbed her for Lucy when the movie was made. It was a bomb at the box office and deserved to be. SHE saw to it that Murder, She Wrote was the top notch quality production top to bottom that it was. In Hollywood, there is a lot of politics and “being in their club” governs a heck of a lot.

Her performance was titanic, but Patty Duke had the more difficult role.

@@steveweinstein3222 I would have to agree. Though Pati should have been nominated as Best Actress, not supporting, as her role was more crucial to the overall film, not that Anne Bancroft was not wonderful as well.

@@TerryComo2010 That's a legitimate point.

Leslie Parrish is still alive.

There was a hint of Ma Jarrett in 'White Heat' in Angela's role also...

@@philiphalpenny3783 Of course! How could I have forgotten? Thanks for mentioning.

Duke may have won the award, but this film likely did more for Lansbury's career than any award could recommend. Duke was good, but her career is essentially forgotten.

Didn't she say the movie was pulled because Kennedy had just been assassinated and that's why it wasn't considered for an Academy Award.

@@dttruman Frank Sinatra had rights to the movie. Apparently, he funded and produced it with John Frankenheimer as the Director. The movie had no problems being replayed, it was just that after the slaying of JFK, the situation regarding Oswald's role was so akin to the movie's premise, that he reserved his right to withdraw it from further showings. After Sinatra died, his daughter decided to release it. She was also the producer of the newly created and written re-do of the "Manchurian Candidate" later in the mid-2000s.

@@dttruman In 1962, Patty Duke won the Academy Award edging out Angela Lansbury. This was the film, "The Miracle Worker," which I will admit was a great performance. I've heard conflicting stories, but to the best of my knowledge, since Sinatra had helped produce and finance the film, he had the screen distribution rights. After his hero JFK was killed, he felt the story line was too close to Oswald's alleged role in the assassination, so he withdrew the film from further distribution for many decades. This was information from John Frankenheimer's explanation on why the film suddenly disappeared and wasn't seen for decades.

Patty was absolutely deserving and I do think if Angela had not been up against her, she would have won.

@Captain Bunwarmer I had the pleasure of meeting her backstage in 2015 after her performance in Noel Coward's "Blithe Sprit" in L.A. She couldn't have been nicer.

@Captain Bunwarmer What a great and correct comment. I remembered saying "Wow, never have seen that in her before..." after seeing Lansbury's performance. And had the same reaction after watching MTM in Ordinary People.

No joke. In Boopeep costume throwing down her staff...shit I'd been scared too

My theory is the remake hopefuls want to prove they are just as good or better. They only prove the contrary. Some performances reach such a pinnacle that the role is forever owned by the actor. Nobody else can knock them off that pedestal without appearing lesser.

@@valkyriesardo278 the remakes almost always fail to top or even match the originals. They don't realize that at the end of the day you can't catch lightening in a bottle twice. Look at the remake of The In Laws: Disaster. Ghostbusters: Bigger disaster. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three: Not bad but pales in comparison. And The Manchurian Candidate: Nobody even remembers that remake.

It was Sinatra who had the film withdrawn. That’s the kind of power he had.

Amen.

Angela Lansbury was an extraordinary artist. She played every role to perfection. Nuanced, authentic, realistic portrayals of all types of characters. A joy to watch and admire. Her place on Broadway is legendary adding singing and dancing to her repertoire.

Miss Lansbury was a baddie in the film noir "Please Murder Me" w/Raymond Burr and wasn't very nice in her debut film, "Gaslight", as the duplicitous maid, along side Charles Boyer & Ingrid Bergman.

@@goodowner5000 Ah, yes *"Gaslight."* Seen that a couple of years back. She was proper conniving in that.

@@goodowner5000 She wasn't a very likeable character, either, as the wife of Walter Pidgeon in "If Winter Comes".

Yes good insight, no doubt this is going on RIGHT NOW

Mrs Lovett, in the Broadway stage premiere of Sweeney Todd.

ONE OF THE ALLTIME GREAT MOVIES INDEED

I think Roger Ebert was onto something when he wondered if Rosie was Ben's controller in New York. The seemingly-bizarre conversation (taken almost ver batim by George Axelrod from Richard Condon's book, by the way) would make sense as a loopy imprinting routine for Ben, a victim of "brainwashing" primed to be unlocked by the dialog. (Think of the imprinting scene in Spielber's "AI," where the mother "adopts" the android boy with a series of specific, pre-programmed words; or the Wildfire introduction scene in Wise's "The Andromeda Strain," where the physicist and ag station/Wildfire Lab security agent trade a secret, canned dialog to identify themselves to one another.) The dialog would form a subconscious "handshake" between Rosie and Ben, controller and asset, affixing his psyche to her hypnotic suggestions. I remember that, later in the film, Ben asks Rosie to marry him, but unless I'm mis-remembering, she never gets around to giving him a direct "yes" or "no." If this theory about Ben's "brainwashing" is correct, even though Ben and Rosie are together in the final scene, he only thinks he's been freed and that he's in love: he's not safe at all, and Rosie, his controller is still very much "into" him. It's all in a day's work: the battle plan has had to be altered, but Dr. Yen is not finished.

I never could figure out what Rosie was doing or why. The character seemed superfluous to the plot except as a device for Marko to express out loud what he was thinking. Making her an operative would have made more sense, but she could have easily been just a person the Govt sent to keep an eye on the man. To make her a Commie operative would have complicated the plot much too much and it was already complicated enough.

Interesting thread here...

She is fascinating. I love her commentary here. I miss her.

Love State of the Union

Where can I watch this movie? Ill pay $ to see it.

So sad that we lost Henry Silva today. What an amazing actor and what a legacy he leaves. Fantastic in the heavy rolls, but also fun as the mama's boy in Jerry Lewis's Cinderfella!

And now we have sadly lost Angela Lansbury. RIP. Incredible acting in this movie; a classic.

@@iainjohnston3814 Oh gosh - I didn't realize that was today! She has left an amazing film legacy. What a remarkable woman!

That is shocking. I thought Laurence was great in this.

The Oscars are rigged (most often). Everyone and his dog know this.

Like Cary Grant and Jessie Royce Landis in North By Northwest.

You gave me an instant visualization. Crowded elevator with Jessie, Cary, and Vandamm's henchmen. "You gentlemen aren't really going to kill my son, are you?" Everyone in the elevator laughs, except Cary.

It's how Angela Lansbury carried herself, her dress, the hairstyle, the demeanor, She presents as many years older the Lawrence Harvey. But, that kiss upon mouth heavily implies incestuous relationship.

It was withdrawn from theaters shortly after JFK's assassination. If the dialogue is meant to be prophetic, she was going to be in a power of position, and, therefore, in a position to punish them for brainwashing her son. I'd be pissed too.

in the book, it's far more overt but this was 1961 and no way were the studio censors going to allow incest scenes on screen

Read the book. She takes her son to bed, and not to sleep!