Dear readers, it is with a heavy heart that I report the passing of television and film actress Dame Angela Lansbury. She was perhaps best known for her role in the TV detective show “Murder She Wrote” where she starred as novelist/detective Jessica Fletcher on CBS for twelve seasons. The show made her one of the wealthiest women in the US at the time, amassing her a fortune estimated at $100 million. Her legacy as a film and stage actress goes far deeper however, earning her three Oscar nominations, a lifetime achievement award from Bafta in 2002 with a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. In 2013 the Academy would recognise her lifetime contributions to stage and screen and present her with an honorary Oscar for her wonderful career which spanned some truly iconic roles, featuring in such classics as “Gaslight”, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, “The Manchurian candidate”, “Blue Hawaii”, “The Three Musketeers”, “Bedknobs and Broomsticks”, “Death on the Nile”, “Beauty and the Beast” and “Nanny McPhee”. She is survived by three children and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury, as well as several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Angela, it was no mystery that we loved you…
