The great Angela Lansbury, winner of five Tony Awards and an honorary Oscar, and nominated for three Oscars and 18 Emmys Primetime Emmy in addition – died in 2022 at the age of 96, leaving such a large heritage, he cannot be measured by other mortals in the actor sphere. Lansbury was one of the most versatile actresses of his generation, playing innocent girls, bad guys and murderers, heroes, crones and loving matrons with equal component.

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Lansbury was already an important celebrity in 1984 when she took the role of Jessica Fletcher The longtime detective series “Murder, it wrote”. Fletcher was a retired English author who became an amazement who was involved in a series of murders in his small town of Cabot Cove, in Maine. It was a comfortable and intelligent series, supported by Lansbury’s pleasant performance. The series lasted 247 episodes in 12 seasons. In an frustrating way, Lansbury did not win any of the 12 Emmy for which she was nominated for “Murder, she wrote”. Anyway, Jessica Fletcher has become one of the actress’s most recognized roles, ensuring her international renown.

And it was not the first time that Lansbury had played a detective. In 1984, she already repeated ostensibly in the mystery genre of murder, after playing Miss Marple by Agatha Christie in an adaptation of 1980 of “The Mirror Crack’d”. “The Mirror Crack’d” talks about a film production which threw two rival actresses called Marina Gregg-Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor) and Lola Brewster (Kim Novak). To make things more embarrassing, the film with the film will be directed by Marina’s husband, Jason (Rock Hudson) and will be produced by Lola’s husband, Marty (Tony Curtis). During a reception, an enraged marina surface named Heather (Maureen Bennett) accidentally drinks a cocktail intended for her idol, and she falls dead. Of course, Miss Marple must be called to investigate.

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Lansbury was only 55 years old when she appeared in “The Mirror Crack’d”, so director Guy Hamilton used a wig, glasses and old age makeup to make it older. She twists her ankle just near the start of the film, requiring most of the real investigation to be done by the nephew of Miss Marple, a character named Dermot Craddock (Edward Fox). Like all the good mystery of murder films, “The Mirror Crack’d” obtains a lot of mileage from its distribution of Hauts. In addition to Taylor, Novak, Hudson and Curtis, the film also presents Geraldine Chaplin, as well as Charles Gray from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”. Director Hamilton had previously made four James Bond films (“Goldfinger”, “Diamonds Are Forever”, “Live and Let Die” and “The Man with the Golden Gun”) and many criminal films, comedies and war photos. He knew how to manage almost anything. He would resume Christie in 1982 with “Evil Under the Sun”, which featured Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot. Kenneth Branagh also said he wanted to make a film Miss Marple In addition to his Poirot films.

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Christie herself was famous By most of the cinematographic adaptations of his works, because filmmakers like Hamilton tended to empty his novels with their hardness hard on hard edges and to insert a feeling of light fantasy. Christie’s stories were not fanciful. But damn, if some of them are not entertaining.

Without a doubt, the manufacturers of “Murder, she wrote” Watched Lansbury in “The Mirror Crack’d” and instantly had the idea that the actress should play a detective again. It was such a good idea, the show lasted 12 years. Naturally, because Cabot Cove was so small, Jessica Fletcher finally started to visit other cities; Only so many murders can occur in one place. It’s a shame that Lansbury could not play Miss Marple a second time, because her intelligence and energy brought a certain joy of life to the role.

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