Given her career spanned seven decades, different people will have different abiding memories of Angela Lansbury, who has died at home in Los Angeles, aged 96.
Maybe they’ll remember her as Miss Price in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) or as the voice of the singing teapot Mrs Potts in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991). Maybe it’ll be her Oscar-nominated performance as Eleanor Shaw Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), or even as young Sibyl Vane in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945).
