and returned after dark - and reams of dialogue to memorize, Lansbury maintained a steady pace. Despite the long days - she left her home at Brentwood in West Los Angeles at 6 a.m. “I had to lay down the law at one point and say `Look, I can’t do these shows in seven days it will have to be eight days.’”ĬBS and the production company, Universal Studio, agreed, especially since “Murder, She Wrote” had become a Sunday night hit. “I was shocked when I learned that had to work 12-15 hours a day, relentlessly, day in, day out,” she recalled.
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The actress found the first series season exhausting. She had achieved notice as a mystery novelist and amateur sleuth. Based loosely on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple stories, the series centered on Jessica Fletcher, a middle-aged widow and former substitute school teacher living in the seaside village of Cabot Cove, Maine. In 2009 she collected her fifth Tony, for best featured actress in a revival of Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” and in 2015 won an Olivier Award in the role.īut Lansbury’s widest fame began in 1984 when she launched “Murder, She Wrote” on CBS. She was back on Broadway and got another Tony nomination in 2007 in Terrence McNally’s “Deuce,” playing a scrappy, brash former tennis star, reflecting with another ex-star as she watches a modern-day match from the stands. Her stardom came in middle age when she became the hit of the New York theater, winning Tony Awards for “Mame” (1966), “Dear World” (1969), “Gypsy” (1975) and “Sweeney Todd” (1979). In 1948, when she was 23, her hair was streaked with gray so she could play a fortyish newspaper publisher with a yen for Spencer Tracy in “State of the Union.” Her mature demeanor prompted producers to cast her much older than her actual age.
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