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📷 Steve McCurry, Brazil, from On Reading ||| "Our doubt is our passion, & our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art." - Henry James

Oct 11, 2022, 11 tweets

#RIP Angela Lansbury
📷 Joyce Tenneson, 2001
"Lansbury is one of the few actors it makes sense to call beloved. (Science, or at least People magazine, confirmed it in 1994 when she scored a perfect 100 on a 'lovability index.')"
- Jesse Green

#RIP Angela Lansbury
📷 Yousuf Karsh, 1946
One of Karsh's most perfect portraits, I think.

#RIP Angela Lansbury
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1944
5 Tony Awards
18 Emmy Awards nominations
3 Academy Award nominations

Angela Lansbury with Basil Rathbone at the Paramount Commissary, in costume for The Court Jester. #RIP
📷 Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1954

#RIP Angela Lansbury
In "Dear World", for which she won a Tony Award for Best Actress
📷 Kenn Duncan, 1969
@NYPL digital collection

#RIP Angela Lansbury
With Len Cariou & Victor Garber in Sweeney Todd
📷 Martha Swope, 1979
@NYPL digital collection

#RIP Angela Lansbury
📷 Marco Grob
archival digital print, 2009
@NPGLondon
“Malicious, witty, fractious, bitchy, and highly attractive, she is a constant delight, and it is a sadness that Cukor or Minnelli never made more of her.”
- David Thomson

Angela Lansbury & Peter Shaw dance at Sam Spiegel's New Year's Eve party, 1948. The two were married in London that August.
#RIP
📷 Peter Stackpole

#RIP Angela Lansbury
With James Gregory in John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate, 1962.
My favourite Lansbury performance.
The still photographer on set was Bill Craemer
#stillonset

#RIP Angela Lansbury
She steals another scene in George Cukor's Gaslight. Charles Boyer & Ingrid Bergman didn't have a chance.

#RIP Angela Lansbury
📷 Jack Mitchell, 1966
“She does comfortable sugar as decently as anyone, but she is a real actress who is more interesting with a touch of lemon juice, or acid. I would trade all the Jessica Fletchers for her wife in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.”
- David Thomson

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