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Lansbury, Angela Brigid

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1925- ♦ US actress Born in London, she was evacuated to the USA in 1940 and became a US citizen in 1951. Signed to a contract with MGM, she made her film debut in Gaslight (1944), for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination. A versatile and talented performer, she subsequently appeared in such films as National Velvet (1944), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and State of the Union (1948). She made her Broadway debut in Hotel Paradiso (1957) and later emerged as a leading stage star in the musical Mame (1966, Tony award). Her subsequent stage work includes Dear World (1969, Tony award), Prettybelle (1971), Gypsy (1974, Tony award), Hamlet (1975) and Sweeney Todd (1979, Tony award). On film, she became a scene-stealing character actress in the likes of All Fall Down (1961), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Death on the Nile (1978) and The Company of Wolves (1984), in which she played "Granny". She found her greatest popularity on television as the star of…
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Full text Article Lansbury, Angela (1925– )

From The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance
Anglo-American actress. English born, sent to America to escape the Blitz, she began her acting career with the film Gaslight (1944), for which she received an Academy award nomination, her first of three. She made 21 films before her 1957 Broadway debut in Hotel Paradiso, followed by A Taste of…
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Full text Article Lansbury, Angela (b. London, 16 October 1925).

From The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Actors and Acting
US/English actress. Lansbury moved to the United States with her mother during World War II and at eighteen she made her professional debut as Ingrid Bergman’s maid in the film Gaslight (1944), receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared in two Broadway plays, Hotel…
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Full text Article Lansbury, Angela Brigid

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1925- ♦ US actress Born in London, she was evacuated to the USA in 1940 and became a US citizen in 1951. Signed to a contract with MGM, she made her film debut in Gaslight (1944), for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination. A versatile and talented performer, she…
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Full text Article Chronology of actors by year of birth

From The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Actors and Acting
Birth Death Quintus Roscius Gallus 126 BCE 62 BCE Kan’ami Kiyotsugu 1333 1384 Zeami Motokiyo 1363 1443 Angelo Beolco 1496 1542 Yan Rong 1522 1567 Wei Liangfu 1526 1570 Vincenza Armani 1530 1569 Francesco Andreini 1548 1624 Tristano Martinelli 1557 1630 Isabella Andreini 1562 1604 William Shakespeare…
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Full text Article Index of actors, directors, teachers, and theorists of acting

From The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Actors and Acting
Index references to individuals who are the topic of entries are in small caps ; this index also includes references to selected theatre artists, with their dates of birth and death. Aalberg, Ida Aalberg Ida (b. Janakkala, Finland, 4 December 1857; d. St Petersburg, 17 January 1915). Abba, Marta…
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Full text Article Demon

From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
An evil spirit who takes possession of a person, or a devil who torments people in hell. Until the 19th century the word was commonly spelled daemon , a form which now has its own specialized applications. The nickname of Sweeney Todd, a fictional Fleet Street barber who regularly murdered his…
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Full text Article Kushner, Tony

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born July 16, 1956, New York, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. dramatist. He grew up in Lake Charles, La., and attended Columbia University and New York University. His early plays include Yes, Yes, No, No (1985). His major work, Angels in America , consists of two lengthy plays that deal with political issues and…
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Full text Article Sondheim, Stephen (1930– )

From The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance
American composer-lyricist, the pre-eminent *musical theatre composer of his generation. Often labelled misanthropic, his sharp, unsparing wit and carefully crafted lyrics grace shows with strong narrative power and musically delineated *characters . Encouraged by Oscar *Hammerstein II , Sondheim…
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