hollywoodtone.blogspot.com Angela Lansbury on this year's honours list
hollywoodtone.blogspot.com Angela Lansbury on this year's honours list
London - Popular actress Angela Lansbury, best known for her role in the murder mystery television show, Murder, She Wrote, is to be made a Dame of the British Empire (DBE) in this year’s New Year’s honours list.
From 1, January, 2014, the popular solver of riddles will be officially Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury Shaw, DBE, according to The Guardian and no doubt will remain “Angela” to her friends and her fans, too. Under the United Kingdom honours system and officially in the UK, she will be referred to as “Dame Angela” and her title is correctly referred to as a “damehood”, though this is not common usage. It is the equivalent of a knighthood and a man receiving the honour would have a “K” or KBE and be styled “Sir”. Lansbury was born in the UK and holds dual US and UK citizenship, therefore is eligible for British honours. Those who only have US citizenship must ask permission to accept foreign honours and may only hold honorary titles. Two other ladies who received the honour were Dame Margot Fonteyn, the world famous ballerina, said to be one of the greatest of all time, in 1956 and Dame Kiri te Kanawa of New Zealand, possibly the greatest postwar soprano opera singer, in 1982. Angela Lansbury was born in London in 1925 and achieved fame in films, including Gaslight in 1944, for which she received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Other films included The Manchurian Candidate and following a successful ongoing career on the stage, she was offered the much-loved role of Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote. Lansbury (Dame Angela, that is) has been married twice, to actor Richard Cromwell and then to Peter Shaw. She has two children, a son and a daughter.
hollywoodtone.blogspot.com Angela Lansbury on this year's honours list