With all the pain in the world we witness how the great actress Angela Lansbury leaves us after passing away at the age of 96. goodbye to maybe one of the most defining faces in the history of audiovisualand only for the long company that has given us through our televisions with the great and essential ‘It has written a crime‘.
Unfortunately for us, this his best work is not on streaming platforms to recommend and enjoy hours of wonderful intrigues and entertainment. Although beware, Lansbury was never reduced to just that series, and we got to see her in a number of great movies like the ones we are going to review today, where he left a mark with his charisma and talent.
‘The Rookie Witch’ (‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks’, 1971)
Address: RobertStevenson. Distribution: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson.
Aside from ‘Murder She Wrote’, the childhood of many has probably been defined by the appearance of Lansbury through classics like this charming piece of live-action and alternative Disney. The kind of movie that could land on television and you swallowed it whole how magical it was.
Lansbury creates a perfect non-frightening witch from the character in Mary Norton’s novels, whose magic is beautifully translated by Robert Stevenson in a good combination of animation and real image. It also has one of the best football shows on the big screen, just for having a handful of animals playing the game.
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‘Death on the Nile’ (‘Death on the Nile’, 1978)
Address: John Wilhelmin. Distribution: Peter Ustinov, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, David Niven, Angela Lansbury, Jane Birkin.
Leaving Disney and going back into the intrigues and murders we have this first adaptation of the great novel by Agatha Christie and his great creation the detective Hercule Poirot. Six years before it began to be suspicious that wherever Lansbury went someone ended up dead, we could see that in this false sequel to ‘Murder on the Orient Express’.
Angela is one of the great faces that populate a sensational cast and it works wonderfully by the successful direction of John Guillermin. She also helps Anthony Shaffer’s well-measured script, very faithful to Christie’s original writing. Suspense with tradition for a great crime movie and entertainment.
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‘Beauty and the Beast’ (‘Beauty and the Beast’, 1991)
Address: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise. Distribution: Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury.
Another defining film of childhood where Lansbury has a fundamental contribution. Here she gives the voice to the great Mrs. Potts, the memorable teapot who also sings the most important song in the moviein which the beauty and the beast of the title dance in the great hall and their romance is cemented.
The beautiful way in which Lansbury sings the piece written by the great Howard Ashman and Alan Mesken is what ends up turning this film into one of the greatest animated classics of all time. A great Disney renaissance story as powerful in its history as it is an animation prodigy, successfully exploring the 3D computer techniques being worked on by a small studio called Pixar.
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