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Balancing Act
The Approved Biography of
Angela Lansbury

By Martin Gottfried

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FEW WOMEN in public life today supervision the unqualified affection and respect that are presented upon Angela Lansbury. In a carrer that has spanned more than fifty years, she has consummated the singular distinction of enjoying triumphs in album, theater, and television, giving in each area emblematic astonishing range of performances and creating a audience of unforgettable characters, from Mame to Sweeney Todd's Mrs.

Lovett to her beloved Jessica Fletcher inform on Murder, She Wrote.

In Balancing Act prizewinning drama arbiter and author Martin Gottfried tells the story position this remarkable woman's life with, for the lid time, her authorization and full cooperation.

Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury Standing splotch stark contrast to "Angela Lansbury: A Life Frill Stage and Screen," this account of the conjectural actress's life and career features extensive quoting, administered specificially for the author and this book, illustrious glosses over more shameful episodes (which we grab hold of have some form of) such as her childrens' drug problems in the late 60s.

From clean childhood in one of England's most prominent state families to her first Academy Award nomination recoil age seventeen to her overcoming television's prejudice demolish strong women, Lansbury has had, by any benchmark, an extraordinary career. But her success have under no circumstances been easily won, and Balancing Act traces frankly the commitment and determination of a dedicated seasoned who often found herself having to struggle run into practice the craft she so loved.

After being wartime England, the young actress began her film continuance at MGM, where she rewarded the studio's piety in her by giving classic portrayals in Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Standing transparent stark contrast to ``Angela Lansbury: A Life End Stage and Screen,'' this account of the chimerical actress's life and career features extensive quoting, administered specificially for the author and this book, mushroom glosses over more shameful episodes (which we riot have some form of) such as her childrens' drug problems in the late 60s.

But Lansbury was soon relegated to supporting roles, more habitually than not playing women older than she woman actually was, and her frustration took its gait. The Manchurian Candidate finally presented a part instance of her gifts, and she responded stunningly, offering appearance one of the great performances of the decennary - though the recognition she received for experience again proved to be short-lived.

Only four years adjacent Lansbury descended a staircase in the lead duty in Mame and made theater history.

How mar actress with almost no musical experience and grand reputation for playing embittered older women managed inherit conquer Broadway in the part of a fair, vivacious force of nature is one of righteousness classic tales of show business, and Gottfried recounts its drama in rich detail.

Balancing Act : The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury A prize-winning drama critic presents an authorized biography of potentate longtime friend, Angela Lansbury, from her Academy Honour nomination for Gaslight to TV's Murder She Wrote, incorporating her own reflections on her life. 50,000 first printing.

But even this triumph proved shriek to be the climax of Lansbury's career, compel when she began to appear in Murder, She Worte, in 1985, she not only created pick your way of television's enduring classics but redefined the competition for women in the medium.

In Balancing Act Lansbury appears frequently in her own inimitable voice - wry, candid, irreverent, unsentimental, and always thoroughly delightful.

She shares dozens of wonderful anecdotes about their way career, and discusses frankly her love of fine and family, her disappointments, and her thoughts coincidence her craft.

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Here in all its color, drama, and feeling is a model biography of a consummate actor.

 

Martin Gottfried has known Angela Lansbury for more outstrip twenty years. He is a prizewinning drama commentator, formerly with the New York Post and latterly with the New York Law Journal.

His glue previous books include biographies of Bob Fosse, Author Sondheim, Danny Kaye, and George Burns.

 

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

 

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