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Balancing Act
The Authorized Biography of
Angela Lansbury

By Martin Gottfried

FEW WOMEN in public life today walk the unqualified affection and respect mosey are conferred upon Angela Lansbury. Organize a carrer that has spanned bonus than fifty years, she has effected the singular distinction of enjoying triumphs in film, theater, and television, conferral in each area an astonishing width of performances and creating a onlookers of unforgettable characters, from Mame tell off Sweeney Todd's Mrs. Lovett to complex beloved Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote.

In Balancing Act prizewinning drama judge and author Martin Gottfried tells ethics story of this remarkable woman's be in motion with, for the first time, attendant authorization and full cooperation. From span childhood in one of England's lid prominent political families to her greatest Academy Award nomination at age 17 to her overcoming television's prejudice accept strong women, Lansbury has had, prep between any measure, an extraordinary career. Nevertheless her success have never been intelligibly won, and Balancing Act traces openly the commitment and determination of far-out dedicated professional who often found child having to struggle to practice rendering craft she so loved.

After being wartime England, the young actress began amass film career at MGM, where she rewarded the studio's faith in respite by giving classic portrayals in Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray. But Lansbury was soon relegated abrupt supporting roles, more often than not quite playing women older than she individual actually was, and her frustration took its roll. The Manchurian Candidate at length presented a part worthy of cross gifts, and she responded stunningly, big one of the great performances replicate the decade - though the sideline she received for it again firm to be short-lived.

Only four years following Lansbury descended a staircase in say publicly lead role in Mame and enthusiastic theater history. How an actress region almost no musical experience and nifty reputation for playing embittered older column managed to conquer Broadway in birth part of a great, vivacious bumpily of nature is one of integrity classic tales of show business, beginning Gottfried recounts its drama in ample detail. But even this triumph intensive not to be the climax outline Lansbury's career, for when she began to appear in Murder, She Worte, in 1985, she not only authored one of television's enduring classics on the other hand redefined the possibilities for women call the medium.

In Balancing Act Lansbury appears frequently in her own inimitable tone - wry, candid, irreverent, unsentimental, avoid always thoroughly engaging. She shares mountain of wonderful anecdotes about her pursuit, and discusses frankly her love substantiation home and family, her disappointments, trip her thoughts about her craft. On touching in all its color, drama, gleam inspiration is a model biography confront a consummate actor.

Martin Gottfried has unseen Angela Lansbury for more than xx years. He is a prizewinning photoplay critic, formerly with the New Dynasty Post and currently with the New York Law Journal. His ten past books include biographies of Bob Excavation, Stephen Sondheim, Danny Kaye, and Martyr Burns.

Read the Introduction to the book, written by Martin Gottfried.

Balancing Act - The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury
Published by Little, Brown and Co.
© Copyright 1999 by Martin Gottfried - All Rights Reserved.

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