Returning to the London stage, at 88

CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with actress Angela Lansbury about her life and career.

[@jeanmcalister1600]

I spend hours each day with my disabled sister Catherine who was diagnosed with MS 24 years ago at the age of 37. Catherine lives in a nursing home and Murder She Wrote is a great favourite of ours which we never tire of. I would like to thank Angela for this wonderful series.

[@jan0009683]

I teared up when she almost cried. She is the most wonderful and adorable woman.

[@felix121984]

She is ageless !

[@inascroggins4192]

Jack Nemec 6

[@peterdurkin8980]

Another Brit that thinks lower of USA

[@beawild]

She's such a good actress, but also a down to earth and caring woman. I love her to pieces.

[@modsleix6]

Angela Lansbury is nothing but pure class... you don't see that in Hollywood nowadays amongst the "new generation"... and probably never will... What a wonderful woman...

[@seansilence2697]

One of the reasons they stayed together so long is quite evident in those pictures. You see them young, and old, but in both pictures he is looking at her like she is his world. That touched me a lot more than I was expecting.

[@Jakeornot]

It is almost palpable, isn't it.

[@40sSonggirl1]

Truly a classy lady who carries herself with such dignity. I love listening to her talk!

[@funkyswede62]

beautiful woman, wonderful actress and such stamina. Much respect and love to Dame Angela. Incredible to believe her age, isn't it?!

[@robertgrant4950]

funkyswede62 - Very much so. She's unstoppable. Bless her, and may she continue to share her talents with us. I love Dame Angela, too.

[@marthalillard3193]

I absolutely love this lady. All her movies are great, and she is a truly class act. Thank you Angela for giving us so much!

[@jcextranow]

She is very consistent with her craft. One of the best in the business. Persistence made her a celebrated name. Consistency kept her grounded and force to be known and recognized.

[@maryannbacon5580]

Angela is one of the great actresses of all times and the epitome of loveliness and true class. Love her!!!

[@AshleySmith-nf4ww]

I really wanted to hug Ms. Lansbury when she started crying. Why would the reporter mention something that is obviously a very sensitive subject with Angela? Angela is a beautiful lady and an amazing role model. She will always be remembered and have a place in our hearts!

[@rallful]

Interviewers and interviewees usually discuss beforehand topics to be covered and what is 'off-limits'.

[@guinnberger2681]

Christiane Amanpour apologized (and seemed sincere) for doing what Barbara Walters _plotted_ to do in an interview once: make Angela cry. The story was that Angela and Barbara had discussed what subjects Angela would prefer _not_ to discuss ...and of course Barbara zeroed in on a painful subject while on camera, and refused to be turned from it until there were tears. Walters was _infamous_ for doing that to interviewees, whereas this seemed like a truly friendly interview.

[@DarthPhoenix71]

This brought tears to my eyes as well. What a gorgeous, talented and warm person she is.

[@pamstubbs4699]

I love Dame Angela and so did my late mother who I lost in 2010 at 87..I wish she were here to see this great interview....We adored Miss Lansbury...My mother would have been 100 this October....

[@jonaloin]

Lol the interviewer switched from movies to Murder She Wrote. She forgot about her massive success on Boradway in between, and Angela had to point that out.

[@sissi8610]

She still cried thinking about her dead husband. Wow. They must have loved each other so much. Moved me to tears.

[@diannaskare7829]

this lady is an awesome actress! Grace that's what I see . true grace!

[@RenanCMaia]

She's a living legend!

[@operabilia]

"How old are you?" .... What an elegant way of addressing such a legendary Lady!

[@100goldenboy]

+operabilia Christine IS a bitch

[@operabilia]

I did not know, but I have found out!

[@TheGranti7a]

Julian Heathcote Allow hard women to be hard women. Everyone has a story. The vile name calling adds nothing, and takes the name caller and everyone else down, as it is meant to.

[@gregmarra9457]

One more reason for me not to like CNN - I'll take Murder She Wrote over CNN anytime!

[@DorvellTStewart]

A question she obviously didn’t have a problem answering, so I don’t see why you do.

[@vincentquinn57]

Angela Lansbury is a genius and truly a great asset to her profession. Long may she survive!

[@LJs_hub_23]

She is right, "People watch it even today" :) I am completely taken by Murder she wrote!! just that watching all of them on KZbin, it's difficult to find them here.

[@unicornloverjones8513]

what an amzing woman.

[@irmaguerrero9444]

Angela Lansbury her name is as beautiful as she is I love this lady I've been watching her for Years Day and Night day and night Murder She Wrote all her Classics I love you man God bless you all the way from Texas

[@MrDHiland]

Angela Lansbury is the epitome of Class...Talent....Beauty...Movie Star. A picture of this extraordinary woman should be beside all those 'terms' in the Dictionary!

[@benecida]

She's always so lovely.

[@irenemak1302]

Remember Angela Lansbury who died just a year ago. The grand lady of film, stage, and film. And still so much loving her husband even after all these years. ❤‍🩹

[@cindypruitt9534]

majestic lady !

[@ChescoYT]

I love her!! Her spirit is just like my grandma was and she was, and Angela was also her fav. actress!

[@ChescoYT]

aww, ty man for your great comment, nice to see a kinder spirit out there!

[@ChescoYT]

You too my friend :)

[@saramiglietta5778]

+Daniel Banas Please remember the episode of MURDER SHE WROTE that starts with a storm and she is in bed with a fever and the light goes away and the phone does not work? My favourite episode for the thriller that has always stirred me I do not know how to watch it again I do not know what year it is, nor the title. I WOULD LIKE TO WATCH IT AGAIN. IT IS A FAMOUS EPISODE!!! Thank you in advance!!! Bye from Italy!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇮🇹🇮🇹

[@hallson2917]

Rest in Peace Angela

[@CitzenVain714]

I LOVE THIS WOMAN!

[@elviradela728]

Great actress and an example for many actresses nowdays. I love this great LADY. Blessings to all of you.

[@GingerJoberton]

Watching inspiration people like Angela gives me new lease of life. I'm 22 and sometimes I think my "career" is over. I am a musician, and the best classical musicians started when they were young and play in orchestras until they're dead. Hard working talents, lovely people, with strife and problems along their way, just like Ms Lansbury show me that I need to grow a pair and not compare myself to others - life is a huge adventure, and I'm only in the early chapters - and she still has a career ahead of her godwilling.

[@cammierountree5172]

I simply love Angela Lansbury. Such a gracious, wonderful woman.

[@catherinebridge2252]

my favourite actor ever she is wonderful

[@joshuataylor6087]

What kind of half-wit interviewer makes Angela Lansbury cry! Back-up Amanpour you're not interrogating a war criminal.

[@ludmilabled362]

Its 2022 i am still watching murder she wrote. Absolutely love it 😍

[@sharonradde3972]

I wanted to cry with her. What a loss, and what an absolutely legendary talent❤

[@VILJL]

Angela Lansbury died on Tuesday October 11, 2022. She was 96. Today, Sunday October 16, 2022 she would have celebrated her 97th birthday.

[@davmar5648]

One of the very great of our time. I think they briefly run through what they are going to discuss before the interview starts. When the love of ones life goes you never get over it. Time heals but it does'nt go away. They talk about Jessica Fletcher but no one ever connects that when she played Miss Marple in the 1980 film The Mirror Crakd that gave her inspiration to attempt such a task. I really think she played a terrific role in that film and was very convincing. Some dont. She was playing a part 25 years older than she was then and was great. yes. It will be a sad day when Angela does leave us but what a life and career and legacy.

[@TerryJGeo]

I was in the audience, it was a brilliant show and Angela was wonderful.

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

She has a beautiful voice, like an English queen!

[@techweenie1]

+Mr. Allmighty Cornholio it's funny it's such a blend of both the British and American accents.

[@syl812577]

Awesome lady

[@Pipmus]

Bravo bravo---I saw the play in New York. Fabulous as always. Good health and continued success always. Love ya, Don

[@itgetseasierlessitry]

What spoils this interview is Amanpour harping on about Lansburys age, when Lansbury is decades the younger of the two.

[@shobamacintyre6856]

you're an awesome woman. glad you found love so true.

[@anthonybrunotheodd]

Dame Angela Lansbury is a great actress and she was wonderful in Bedknobs and Broomsticks probably my most favourite of all her performances.

[@bletheringfool]

Ahem- you mean Lansbury

[@anthonybrunotheodd]

@@bletheringfool oh my goodness yes! Thanks for bringing this too my attention!

[@christophercory8742]

I just love this woman , such an amazing person. What a beautiful couple they were

[@ralucadbch]

I simply adore her!!! Amazing!

[@skywatcher651]

Happy to see Dame Angela here. My whole family's an avid fan. She is always classy and beautiful inside and out. She has become even more beautiful. Just glad to see her, hear her voice, see that she is still energetic and we'll. Sending our love for this great lady

[@manujemima]

She is amazing!

[@jeannettegrantham5359]

Class act!

[@cliffedward]

One of Ms Lansbury's roles that has stayed with me was when she played Elvis Presley's mother in Blue Hawaii, Oscar winning performance and stole the whole movie. Emma Thompson would take anyone out of the doldrums as she is a funny and sweet lady.

[@Petey8482]

❤️ her

[@superkamehameha1744]

i know her voice as Miss Potts in Beauty and the Beast Great Lady :D

[@richardrosenthal9552]

The first movie I saw Angela Lansbury in was National Velvet. She played Velvet Browns sister. She was a presence in the movie then as she is now in whatever she does. I was amazed when later in her career she was a wonderful singer. She did it all musicals, comedy, and drama on stage, in movies and on television. I could go on about all Angela Lansbury has done in her long career but I will only say she is one of my favorite actresses and an absolutely beautiful and amazing lady.

[@ladylozamaylumiere3385]

Yeah! Love her to bits - she's just wonderful lady & actress!!!

[@zackisgreasy4503]

such a wonderful woman, bless her heart

[@nancywhitehead6397]

Love you Angela. You are a classic in every good way.. Long may you thrive..

[@brandonsaraniti771]

She is what made me love Sweeney Todd! Nobody else could have pulled a better Mrs Lovett than her'

[@XOXOcel]

Amazing Angela :)

[@joestewart-paul3260]

She is absolutely wonderful xx

[@DjRePhil]

seems like such a genuinely wonderful person. and I agree the reporter sucks. Angela you are the best!

[@Jakeornot]

The interviewer was fine.

[@RenanCMaia]

She has 5 Tony Awards and 6 Golden Globes. And she deserved the Oscar for "The Manchurian Candidate" and the Emmy for "Murder, She Wroter".

[@scorpioninpink]

The greatest travesty is she never won an Oscars!

[@scorpioninpink]

And an Emmy!

[@jovanatubic4390]

I loovee herrr so so so muchhhh,She is amazing actres,amazinin person,BEAUTYFULL SOUL...OHHH..😞💝💘💞😳😘😘😘

[@talibeach2770]

i love jessica fletcher!!!

[@alejandro6239]

I love her!!.. :3

[@IsabelSmith-izziart]

she is my heroine!

[@g_vezz]

A roll model..

[@amyclarke41]

Excellent for me as i thought a bit she reminds me of my granny

[@jenniferhorstmann2279]

She was a class act

[@elisarossi7914]

Grandissima attrice e grandissima donna....profonda, sensibile....Meravigliosa

[@Dianaemanuel]

A good interview - spoiled by the reporter asking dumb questions about how a person feels when they lose their husband of many years. Massively insensitive.

[@Glamourguy367]

awww she's adorable

[@jeahavvalentin4895]

Angela Lansbury is really hot lovely and really really beautiful.

[@0RoseRed]

I love this woman!

[@squirreltubehd664]

Atm they show "Murder, she wrote" on german tv and i don't miss a single episode. Miss Lansbury, to me, is one of the best actress' alive. No, she IS the best alive. Hmm...if Bea Arthur would still be alive, I would be in trouble😰.

[@ElectedOfficial1]

I wish I could meet her. I pray Angela is still with us. I would love to be close friends.

[@lifesprototype]

She's a lovely lady ❤

[@elenaserebrennikova3165]

Шикарная женщина, талантливая актриса, просто звезда мировой величины!!! Обожаю ее!!! Gorgeous woman , talented actress, just a star of world size!!! Love her!!!

[@tonyjones2308]

That is an Englishwoman, through and through.

[@fidobarks]

I saw her do it in nyc with Richard chamberlain.....she WAS the show!!!!

[@irishcladdagh3]

Love Angela Lansbury, but I don't like Amanpour's interviewing techniques.

[@KainyStyle]

Irish Claddagh Really? Who not? I think she was very polite, yet asked really interesting questions.

[@WolfySnackrib666]

...Wow. The interviewer starts out presenting Angela Lansbury as someone who to many of us is the protagonist from Murder She Wrote and Bedknobs and Broomsticks - those are exactly the two I know her from! It's strange that she'd say those in particular, consider Angela's numerous works.

[@jeahavvalentin4895]

How can amanpour ask Angela Lansbury such a rubbish stupid question like that is she ever going to retire? Heck no she's not because Angela Lansbury is way way too too young and youthful to be retiring because Angela Lansbury is only 18 years old.

[@cmcb09]

Exactly she reminds me of Lauren Bacall, when asked that question she said as long as my mind is still semi functioning and I can put one foot in front of the other I have no plans of retiring.

[@noreexic]

Chris Johnson Her and Betty White must have made a deal with satan to be so healthy :P

[@matthewcarlon7122]

I sure hope they do beauty And the beast justice, though I already have issues with what I have seen from the previews

[@roter13]

it was nice to see her cry. proves she really loved her husband

[@diannaskare7829]

why does she need to go through the pain or prove herself to anyone in anyway?

[@progressivelife841]

roter13 never nice to see someone cry

[@joshuaseils524]

Lansbury is lovely. Amanpour is brusque and seems ignorant of the breadth of her career. It's a shame she's the interviewer.

[@Aidanhatesyouall]

Do we have a picture of paul mccartney?

[@marianacivica5810]

te iubesc

[@danaexo2465]

Angela lansbury is so amazingI love her so much I love bedknobs and broomsticks I can't believe this reporter Is asking her such personal questions she made her cry how evil is the reporter 😠😡

[@lillianwilliams5510]

Angela Lansbury will always be a favorite star of mine . I love all of her movies and Murder she wrote I feel.her sadness for her husband passing. The interviewer was a little crash in asking Ms. LANSBURY HER AGE. VERY RUDE AND MS. LANSBURY PAYSED B4 ANSWERING. NO ONE ASKS A SENIOR CITIZEN HER AGE AT LEAST NOT IN A MORE APPROPRIATE MANNER. MS.LANGBURY MAY HAVE TOLD IT HERSELF. EVEN THOUGH SHE IS ,AT THIS TIME IN HER 90S AND STILL AS LOVELY AS EVER AND GRACEFUL. IT IS NOT PROPER ETIQUETTE AND TO SO, BRASHLY ASK HER AGE. APPARENTLY, NEWS REPORTERS AND INTERVIEWERS HAVE NOT BEEN RAISED BY PROPER STANDARDS. MS.LANGSBURY AND MS.BETTY WHITE WILL ALWAYS BE LEGENDS AMONG THE GREAT ACTRESSES. WE L WE LOVE YOU ❤❤❤🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@irmaguerrero9444]

I want to be in Murder She Wrote fan club I love you ma'am all the way from Texas

[@malgorzatasweet8479]

Good genes

[@NhooMatthews]

Well MGM screwed up they didn't have her as a main character!

[@davids.794]

They had her in films of the time period........she wasn't Joan Crawford or Jean Harlow, but she did OK for herself. Water under the bridge.

[@user-jm2lq9un8b]

ANGELA BEAUTY)

[@user-ed2ee6od6b]

こうやって生のコメントを見てると「ジェシカおばさんの事件簿」の時の声アテに関してはキャスティングした人も森光子もベストの選択をしてたよね。アンジェラの肉声聞いても森さんがしゃべってるみたいで違和感がまったくない。

[@robdewey317]

The yipping stops at 1:06

[@fting8232]

I enjoy she plays Jessica Fischer in murder she wrote

[@jozefvissers5644]

one camera

[@rabbitfishtv]

Are the British really unaware that she was a major Broadway star? Mame! Gypsy! Sweeney Todd! Good heavens.

[@clement2780]

Shakespeare and other live theatre