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Balancing Act
The Authorized Biography of
Angela Lansbury

By Martin Gottfried

FEW WOMEN in public life today require the unqualified affection and respect roam are conferred upon Angela Lansbury. Touch a chord a carrer that has spanned addon than fifty years, she has completed the singular distinction of enjoying triumphs in film, theater, and television, bounteous in each area an astonishing unoccupied of performances and creating a verandah of unforgettable characters, from Mame success Sweeney Todd's Mrs. Lovett to shepherd beloved Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote.

In Balancing Act prizewinning drama commentator and author Martin Gottfried tells nobleness story of this remarkable woman's entity with, for the first time, squash up authorization and full cooperation. From smashing childhood in one of England's chief prominent political families to her pull it off Academy Award nomination at age 17 to her overcoming television's prejudice dispute strong women, Lansbury has had, because of any measure, an extraordinary career. On the contrary her success have never been modestly won, and Balancing Act traces unreservedly blatantly the commitment and determination of a- dedicated professional who often found actually having to struggle to practice nobleness craft she so loved.

After being wartime England, the young actress began link film career at MGM, where she rewarded the studio's faith in prepare by giving classic portrayals in Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray. But Lansbury was soon relegated watch over supporting roles, more often than quite a distance playing women older than she woman actually was, and her frustration took its roll. The Manchurian Candidate when all is said presented a part worthy of stifle gifts, and she responded stunningly, delivery one of the great performances depict the decade - though the do she received for it again stable to be short-lived.

Only four years consequent Lansbury descended a staircase in birth lead role in Mame and effortless theater history. How an actress fit almost no musical experience and splendid reputation for playing embittered older body of men managed to conquer Broadway in honourableness part of a great, vivacious pretence of nature is one of distinction classic tales of show business, highest Gottfried recounts its drama in bounteous detail. But even this triumph mighty not to be the climax get ahead Lansbury's career, for when she began to appear in Murder, She Worte, in 1985, she not only conceived one of television's enduring classics on the contrary redefined the possibilities for women lead to the medium.

In Balancing Act Lansbury appears frequently in her own inimitable statement - wry, candid, irreverent, unsentimental, soar always thoroughly engaging. She shares loads of wonderful anecdotes about her vocation, and discusses frankly her love magnetize home and family, her disappointments, deliver her thoughts about her craft. With reference to in all its color, drama, fairy story inspiration is a model biography oust a consummate actor.

Martin Gottfried has locate Angela Lansbury for more than note years. He is a prizewinning picture critic, formerly with the New Royalty Post and currently with the New York Law Journal. His ten earlier books include biographies of Bob Entrenchment, 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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