While she is best remembered as an Academy award-winning actress, Dame Angela
Lansbury DBE – born on October 16, 1925, in Regent’s Park, London, England – was
also an accomplished singer with a long list of acclaimed Broadway roles to her
name. She began her career in 1940 after her family had moved to New York,
singing Noel Coward songs in Canadian nightclubs. In 1942, they relocated to Los
Angeles, where her mother, actress Moyna Macgill, tried to resurrect her film
career. However, it was Angela Lansbury who was offered a role in the 1944 film
Gaslight. Her film career took of...