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I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

Angela Lansbury

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Angela Lansbury
Age: 99
Born: 1925
Born: October 16
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Angela Brigid Lansbury
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