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Article: ANGELA LANSBURY.(Arts And Entertainment)(The Kennedy Center Honors 2000)

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December 2, 2000
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Angela Lansbury, whose durable acting career has enhanced the movies, theater and television, created a provocative and amusing first impression with her movie debut.

At the precocious age of 17, she appeared in "Gaslight" as Nancy, the cockney housemaid functioning as the stubbornly perverse onlooker in an ominous setup. Her bad attitude may have pleased only a minority of the mass audience in 1944, but it supplied some witty and still savory resistance to conventional sympathy.

A potential devil's wanton, Nancy expresses scorn for the sorely deceived and abused heroine, Paula (Ingrid Bergman). This scorn is reinforced by a keen admiration for ...

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