Q 01/05

In which city was Angela Lansbury born in 1925?

A) Dublin

B) Edinburgh

C) Manchester

D) London

Answer · why

D) London

London. Her birthplace is often given as Poplar in the East End, where her father had been mayor, but she insisted she was born across town in Regent'...

Q 02/05

Angela Lansbury's mother, the actress Moyna Macgill, was born in which city?

A) Belfast

B) Dublin

C) Glasgow

D) Liverpool

Answer · why

A) Belfast

Belfast. In 1940 Moyna Macgill sold everything she could and took Angela and her twin brothers across the Atlantic by ship to escape the wartime bombi...

Q 03/05

Angela Lansbury earned an Oscar nomination for her film debut in which 1944 thriller?

A) Rebecca

B) Laura

C) Suspicion

D) Gaslight

Answer · why

D) Gaslight

Gaslight. Lansbury was a teenager working in a department store when she was cast as the sly maid, and the film's title later gave English a verb for ...

Q 04/05

Who played the tormented heroine Paula in Angela Lansbury's 1944 debut film?

A) Greer Garson

B) Joan Fontaine

C) Vivien Leigh

D) Ingrid Bergman

Answer · why

D) Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman won the Best Actress Oscar for the role. To give her version a clear run, the studio had demanded that every print of a 1940 British fi...

Q 05/05

Who directed Angela Lansbury's 1944 debut film?

A) George Cukor

B) William Wyler

C) Frank Capra

D) Michael Curtiz

Answer · why

A) George Cukor

George Cukor. Five years earlier he had been replaced as director of Gone with the Wind, yet he became famous as a 'woman's director' who drew award-w...