Angela Lansbury (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was an Irish- British and American actress, producer, and singer whose career spanned 80 years. To escape the Blitz, she moved to the U.S. in 1940, studying acting in New York City. She received three Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nominations for her roles in Gaslight (1944), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). On television, she starred as the sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the CBS whodunit series Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996), for which she was nominated for 12 consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Among Lansbury's numerous accolades were five Tony Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, 18 Primetime Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Grammy Award. She was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000, and the Academy Honorary Award in 2013.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Lansbury> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1875: Brigham Young University, the largest religious university in the United States, was founded in Provo, Utah. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_Young_University> 1905: Authorities of the British Raj partitioned the Bengal Presidency, separating the largely Muslim eastern areas from the largely Hindu western areas. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_Bengal_%281905%29> 1950: The first novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was released in the United Kingdom. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion,_the_Witch_and_the_Wardrobe> 2017: The Maltese journalist and anti-corruption activist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb attack in Bidnija. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: rendezvous: 1. A meeting or date. 2. An agreement to meet at a certain place and time. 3. A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet. 4. (military) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment. 5. (astronautics) A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance. 6. (obsolete) A retreat or refuge. 7. (intransitive) To meet at an agreed time and place. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rendezvous> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day: Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet. --William O. Douglas <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_O._Douglas> _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Daily Article mailing list. To unsubscribe write to: [email protected] Questions or comments? Contact [email protected]
