Angela Lansbury has made many friends in her nearly 80 years in the entertainment industry, dazzling on stage and screen, from her film debut in 1944’s Gaslight, to her sensational 1966 performance in Mame, to her beloved characters from Jessica Fletcher to Murder, She Wrote in the 80’s and 90’s to the 1991 cartoon Beauty and the Beast where she voiced Mrs. Potts.
Within hours of her family announcing on Tuesday that she had died at the age of 96, Hollywood began paying tribute to her.
Noting that Lansbury had won five Tony Awards – including a Lifetime Achievement Award presented just this year – George Takei played the mystery writer/amateur detective in the hit Murder, She Wrote for 12 seasons. He added the lyrical message, “A tale as old as time, our beloved Mrs. Potts will now sing us lullabies from the stars.” He added, “Hush, great soul.”
Oscar winner Viola Davis remarked that Lansbury influenced generations of actors. Meanwhile, Josh Gad, one of the stars of the 2017 live-action version of Beauty and the Beast, went even further and noted that it had touched multiple generations of people, period.
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