The world of culture mourns the death of Angela Lansbury. The actress, who received an honorary Oscar in 2013, died Tuesday night at the age of 96 at her Los Angeles home while she slept.
Known for playing Jessica Fletcher in A crime has been written, there are several curiosities that surround the interpreter and that not everyone knows. One of them is that she was nominated three times for the golden statuette in her eight decades of film, theater and television. A career that she was promoted after settling in the United States. And it is that, although she was born in London, Lansbury was forced to flee with her mother from the Second World War and she settled in New York in 1940. There she began a new life and studied acting, achieving various roles on Broadway.
Peter Shaw, the producer of Murder, She Wrote, accompanied her on many of her hits. The two married in 1949 and had two children together. But it was not the first time that the British passed through the altar. She used to do the same with Richard Cromwell but, after a year of marriage, he confessed that he was gay and they divorced her.
She was never suspicious and when she found a note at home explaining it, she thought it was a joke in bad taste. "I was shocked when it all ended because I wasn't ready for it. It was a big mistake getting married so young," she told Radio Times.
His relationship with his children was no more bearable. As she herself confessed in an interview in the Dailymail newspaper, her two children used drugs regularly. But that wasn't the only thing that worried her. Her daughter, Deidre, fell into the nets of the sect led by Charles Manson, the same one that ended the life of Sharon Tate, murdered in cold blood when she was pregnant.
"It pains me to say it, but at one point, Deidre was with a crowd led by Charles Manson. She was one of many young people who knew him, and they were fascinated. He was an extraordinary character, charismatic in many ways, no doubt." , confessed Lansbury in the aforementioned newspaper.
Faced with such a scenario, the interpreter made a decision: move away from the spotlight to start rehabilitation. And that's how the family ended up in Ireland for a while.
To end on a lighthearted note, not all curiosities are so dark. Another of her most famous characters and, probably, the most unknown to her public is that of Mrs. Potts, the endearing teapot from Beauty and the Beast that she gave voice to.
