RIP Angela Lansbury AKA Jessica Fletcher

[dahliaclone]

One hell of a career and 96 years young.

• Three time Oscar nominee (Manchurian Candidate, Picture of Dorian Gray, Gaslight)
• Five time Tony winner
• 18 time Emmy nominee

Unbelievably she never won an Emmy even playing Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote. Nominated 11 times for that role...zero wins.

• Beauty and the Beast (Mrs. Potts)
• Mary Poppins, Returns
• Sweeney Todd
• Death on the Nile

 

[BigJCy]

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

This was one you knew was coming but still so sad. She was a legend.

 

[dahliaclone]

Truth. I remember growing up and seeing that show come on when staying at my grandparent's and thinking 'great...'

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

looked at her wiki page, she was 5 days away from being 97.

 

[houjix]

So many deaths in such a small town.

RIP Ms. Fletcher

 

[Acylum]

Gotta be honest here, thought she was already dead.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

This is her at the 25 anniversary of Beauty and Beast singing her famous title song. She's 90 at this time but you wouldn't know it from hearing it.

 

[Entropy]

One of my favorite movies growing up was Bed Knobs and Broomsticks. Still a favorite and worth a watch this week.

 

[carvers4math]

She was a very skilled actress and I found her character disturbing as the part required in Manchurian Candidate.

 

[BigJCy]

Also after Pat & John did this promo this when the Sunday Scaries started to kick in.

 

[dahliaclone]

She was a very skilled actress and I found her character disturbing as the part required in Manchurian Candidate.

I hated that they remade that movie with Meryl Streep. Lansbury's portrayal was untouchable in that movie. She should have won the Oscar for that.

 

[StLouisClone]

I need to go back and watch some old episodes of MSW to see if I still like it as much as I did then. She was like Queen Elizabeth. Always there and always classy.

 

[Clonefan94]

Truth. I remember growing up and seeing that show come on when staying at my grandparent's and thinking 'great...'

Same here. I remember talking to my grandmother about it, when I got a little older and asked why Jessica was never investigated as a serial killer. I mean every time she went to a hotel, someone was murdered and it was always her who supposedly "Solved" the murder implicating someone else. The common denominator was that Jessica showed up, someone dies.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

2022 doesn't seem like it's had the numbers that the last couple of years have had but some of people lost this year have been absolute legends.

 

[carvers4math]

I hated that they remade that movie with Meryl Streep. Lansbury's portrayal was untouchable in that movie. She should have won the Oscar for that.

I never saw the Meryl Streep version. They skirted her incestuous sexual abuse of her son that occurred in the novel by just implying something with a creepy kiss, I always wondered if the later version was more explicit but didn’t really have the heart to watch it.

 

[cowboycurtis]

If there was a multiple choice question: When did the Murder, She Wrote lady die?
A. Today
B. 5 years ago
C. 10 years ago
D. 20 years ago

I’m picking A last.

 

[NorthCyd]

I have never seen Murder, She Wrote but that's the first thing I thought of. Second was Mrs. Potts because I've got 4 kids who love Disney stuff. Oh, who am I kidding, I loved Beauty and the Beast when I was a kid too.

 

[MeanDean]

Gaslight. 1944. WWII is in full action. Think about that.

And yes, she was incredible in that role.

 

[Gorm]