![]() Over a half-century stretch of her durable career, Lansbury cycled through Disney and Agatha Christie, but also played down-to-earth character roles and could hold her own romping through splashy musical numbers, as these 15 movies and her biggest television hit demonstrate. An all-purpose performer with a golden voice and extraordinary versatility, Angela Lansbury, who died Tuesday at 96, could be affectionate and menacing - and sometimes both at once - in films as varied as “The Manchurian Candidate” and “Beauty and the Beast.” Her accent could travel from the Cockney of “Gaslight” to the Mississippi twang of “The Long, Hot Summer” and many destinations in between.
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