And I got a laugh, you know, the first time I did it. All of the physical aspects of acting suddenly came to me. And during that scene, I suddenly got this - the feel and the smell of being able to make an effect by the way I played the role, the way I comported myself. And Touchstone and Audrey have a very funny scene together. So you're doing it, in other words.Īnd I - my first role was to play Audrey in "As You Like It," which is a very comic part. That's absolutely the most thrilling thing in the world. And you're going to do a little scene at the end of the term. And when you're a student and you are given a role, something is assigned to you. But what I experienced at drama school was the fun and the excitement of being given a part. LANSBURY: Well, I realized that what I was going to be doing in the theater really was quite different, although I didn't realize that at the time. What convinced you then that you liked acting after being so ambivalent about your mother's career? GROSS: So you started drama school during the war, staying home in London. And therefore, she was quite happy to have me stay at home with her and have classes and start my dramatic training. But I think she also was quite happy to have me stay with her as I was the only - I was the sort of remaining sibling who was around. And I - thank goodness I chose to do that or that she agreed to let me do that. I think you worked out a deal with your mother that you would be tutored at home and then also take singing and dancing lessons. And - but your school was moving, so you weren't able to go to school.
GROSS: During World War II, when you were young, your brothers were sent to a family in the countryside, as many British children were, to get away from the bombing. She was a comedy - musical comedy actress. So she played a variety of roles, actually. She started off doing Shaw - George Bernard Shaw and also Shakespeare, and became also the leading lady of the great English sort of matinee actor who was Sir Gerald du Maurier. LANSBURY: My mother was an Irish actress, and she appeared in a number of various plays during the time that she was working. And congratulations on the Kennedy Center Honor.
TERRY GROSS: Angela Lansbury, welcome to FRESH AIR. Terry Gross spoke to Angela Lansbury in 2000.
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Her first role in a movie came at age 17, playing the maid in the 1944 film "Gaslight." She was nominated for an Academy Award for that performance, and received another nomination the following year for her role in "The Picture Of Dorian Gray." In the '60s, she was nominated again for her terrific performance as a manipulative mother in "The Manchurian Candidate." She also won four Best Actress Emmys for her role as Jessica Fletcher in the long-running CBS mystery series "Murder, She Wrote." Not counting next month's Lifetime Achievement Tony Award, she already has five Tonys for both musicals and dramas. Lovett, what a charming notion.īIANCULLI: Angela Lansbury grew up in England and came to the U.S. LEN CARIOU: (As Sweeney Todd, singing) Mrs. And I'm sure they can't compare as far as taste. And a pussy's good for maybe six or seven at the most. Business never better using only pussycats and toast. Lovett, singing) I mean, with the price of meat what it is, when you get it, if you get it. He's piling up bodies, and she offers a uniquely advantageous means of disposal.ĪNGELA LANSBURY: (As Mrs. Lovett, suggests a particularly gruesome partnership. And in the song "A Little Priest," Angela Lansbury, as Mrs.
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He was a serial killer intent on murdering many of his customers. Lovett was running an unsuccessful bakery in London in the Victorian era, when she was inspired to team up with a local barber named Sweeney Todd. In "Gypsy," Mama Rose was the ultimate stage mother. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street." Both those latter musicals had lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and both were very juicy leading roles. She can add that to the Tonys she's earned already for such roles as the star of "Mame," portraying Mama Rose in a revival of "Gypsy" and playing the pie maker Mrs. Next month, Angela Lansbury will receive a special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University in New Jersey, sitting in for Terry Gross.
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