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A Streaming Guide to Angela Lansbury’s TV and Movie Roles


Lansbury received her second Oscar nomination in two years for her dazzling supporting performance as a humble pub singer who caught the eye of Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield), a spoiled aristocrat living in London underground slums. Under the caress of Oscar-winning cinematographer Harry Stradling, Lansbury’s “Goodbye Little Yellow Bird” is a poignant and haunting signal of things to come, as Dorian’s attention goes to for her to fade away and lead to a tragic end. For the rest of the film, Oscar Wilde’s story of Faustian’s portrait has aged while its subject doesn’t feel more natural as a literary conceit than a cinematic, but it’s all very well presented.

Streaming online TCM or DirecTV; rent on Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play app market, YouTube, Vudu or Microsoft.

1946

The product of Arthur Freed and the studio machine MGM, this Western musical has exactly one number at the top of the show, Oscar-winning “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe” and pretty much everyone in the cast but Lansbury is featured in it. However, Lansbury (which, oddly, has her voice fooled) presents a brazen erotic scene while at a disco in 1890s Arizona who feels threatened by the “Harvey Girls” , a group of clean waitresses come to staff the new Harvey. Restaurants in town. (Harvey House is actually a chain of restaurants and hotels along passenger train lines, so the movie doubles as an advertisement.) Bete noire.

Rent or buy it on Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play app market, YouTube, Vudu or Microsoft.

1958

Putting a Big Daddy Pollitt-inspired character in Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” into a pieced together script from three works by William Faulkner, Orson Welles completely dominated “The Long.” , Hot Summer” as Will Varner, the treacherous small-town Mississippi tycoon that the other actors struggled to be known for. With a thick Southern look and lots of attitude, Lansbury does his best to repel Welles as his mistress, although much of the film comes from his complicated relationship with The charismatic Ben Quick by Paul Newman, who comes with big ambitions and a criminal past. Quick’s interest in Welles’ daughter, played by Joanne Woodward, turned into one of Hollywood’s great off-screen love stories.

Streaming online HBO Max, Roku, DirecTV, FlixFling. Rent on Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play app market, YouTube, Vudu or Microsoft.

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