Murder, She Wrote was, at the time, CBS' most popular scripted series; in fact, it had been one of only two series on the network to garner a rating in the top ten ( 60 Minutes was the other). E3 2009: Murder, She Wrote game coming to the PC" Archived July 19, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, news. She starred in every episode for twelve seasons, and received an Emmy nomination for each of them, although she never won. Meanwhile, in the Sunday time slot that Murder, She Wrote was vacating, CBS elected to try a situation comedy block. By the beginning of the 1960s she was a veteran of 24 films of varying quality, including a role as the mother of a character played by Elvis Presley in Blue Hawaii, something she later said she did because she was desperate.

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The British star went on to land two more Oscar nominations as Sibyl in The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1945 and Laurence Harvey's manipulative mother in The Manchurian Candidate - opposite Frank Sinatra - in 1962.Hamlet, Lyttleton, May 1976, with Barbara Jefford as Gertrude' Shakespeare in the Theatre, CUP Archive, 1981, p. According to PBS, Lansbury gave her character Jessica Fletcher on "Murder, She Wrote" the middle name "Beatrice" in honor of her friend.

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Directed by Peter Hall, the production ran from December 1975 to May 1976 and received mixed reviews.She obtained minor roles in such films as A Life at Stake (1954), A Lawless Street (1955) and The Purple Mask (1955), later describing the latter as "the worst movie I ever made. This honor, Lansbury told the BBC, meant something different and deeper than any of her Tonys or her honorary Oscar.

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I'm still pretty vigorous, especially in the garden … but if I wanted to transform myself back into the woman I looked like then, it would be ridiculous.

Murder, She Wrote maintained extremely high ratings, finishing in the top 15 of shows for eleven of its 12 seasons (eight of which it was in the top 10), even well into its late seasons.