Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actor who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy”

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Lansbury passed on Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, as per an assertion from her three youngsters. She passed on five days short of her 97th birthday celebration

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the long-running TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” has died. She was 96.

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her first three films, “Gaslight” (1945) and “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1946),

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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).

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She was back on Broadway and got another Tony nomination in 2007 in Terrence McNally’s “Deuce,”

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“She was an icon, a legend, a gem, and about the nicest lady you’d ever want to meet.”

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“Dame Angela was so sweet to me when I made my Broadway debut. She was a key person in welcoming me to the community. She truly lived, lived, lived!”

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