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Although Lansbury played actor Laurence Harvey's mother in the film, she was in fact only three years older than him. Two further miniseries featuring Lansbury appeared in 1984: Lace and The First Olympics: Athens 1896. Deadline Hollywood reported in October 2013 that NBC was planning a reboot of the series, starring Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer as a "hospital administrator and amateur sleuth who self-publishes her first mystery novel.

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Her performance won her a Tony award, and an unexpected role as a gay icon, something she came to relish. After her teenage children began struggling with drug addiction and a fire destroyed their family home in California, she, her husband, and their children sought out a new start in a seaside home in County Cork, Ireland, as noted by The New York Times. And she leveraged her fame and wealth into philanthropic activities, especially the battle against HIV/AIDS.However, it would be her iconic role as mystery author Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996) which would immortalize her with a whole new generation. By the beginning of the 1960s she was a veteran of 24 films of varying quality, including a role as the mother of a character played by Elvis Presley in Blue Hawaii, something she later said she did because she was desperate. Amidst difficulties in her personal life, Lansbury moved from California to Ireland's County Cork in 1970. She studied music and dancing before enrolling at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in 1939. Although critical reviews were mixed, it proved highly popular, with the pilot having a Nielsen rating of 18.

Tributes pour in for Dame Angela Lansbury after her death

Lansbury next starred in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), a cinematic adaptation of Wilde's 1890 novel of the same name, which was again set in Victorian London. The series also filmed exterior shots and some episodes on location in the Northern California town of Mendocino, which stood in for the fictional Maine town of Cabot Cove.

In the game, one player takes the hidden role of a killer and the other players try to determine which player is the killer through deduction. She appeared in 11 further MGM films, mostly in minor roles, and after her contract ended in 1952, she began to supplement her cinematic work with theatrical appearances.