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I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.

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