Re: Miss Marple (Was: USA Election)

On 2024-11-21 21:43:41 +0000, Your Name said:

On 2024-11-21 10:17:08 +0000, Blueshirt said:

Daniel70 wrote:

Blueshirt wrote on 20/11/24 9:20 pm:

Daniel70 wrote:

 ... and wasn't there a Yank one thrown in there as well??

 <shudders> Yes, Helen Hayes.

 That's fine .... cause she's not the person I was (trying to)
refer to!! Angela Lansbury or some such!! Nope, my mistake,
she played "Jessica Fletcher". Same horse, different Name.

 1) Angela Lansbury is not American! Maybe half-yank if anything.

 Nope. She was born in London in 1925. Her father was British and her monther was Irish. In 1940, after her father died a few years earlier and to escape the wartime bombing blitz, Angela (about 15 years old), her two borthers, and her mother moved to New York, then her and her mother moved to California in 1942. Some places say her father came with them to New York, but he died in 1935, so that isn't possible (other than perhpas ashes in an urn).

I meant to say that Anglea and her husband later moved her family back to Ireland in 1972, mainly to get her daughter away from bad influences in Hollyweird.

2) But did play Miss Marple in a film, which was okay...
although "Murder She Wrote" was a lot better.

 "The Mirror Cracked", released in 1980. It also had some big name actors like Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis. It was meant to be the first of a trilogy of movies with Lansbury playing Miss Marple, but the other two weren't made because the first one wasn't successful at the box office.