Happy 85th Angela Lansbury

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Coincidentally, on the same day that we hear the news of Simon MacCorkindale's death, one of his co-stars from the movie which made him famous seems to have made a pact with the devil to live forever.

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Angela Lansbury, seen here in a scene from "Death On The Nile", with David Niven, Peter Ustinov and Olivia Hussey, celebrates her 85th birthday today. Miss Lansbury is a living legend of entertainment, having won 5 Tony Awards among many others awards in her long career.

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But as honored as Lansbury as been, creating some of the most iconic Broadway, movie and t.v. roles of all time, she's also one of those actors who was most definitely robbed of some honors she should have won. She was nominated 18 times for an Emmy Award, 12 of those for "Murder, She Wrote" alone, but never won an Emmy. Crazy.

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But perhaps the greatest
"rob" of Lansbury's career came at the Oscars. Nominated twice for Best Supporting Actress, "Gaslight" in 1945, and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in 1946, it wasn't until many years later that she really showed her stuff as a film actress. In 1962, Lansbury starred in "The Manchurian Candidate" as Mrs. Iselin and created one of the greatest, most frightening, cold-hearted bitches of all time. Even now, after all these years, you cannot watch that movie without being unnerved by Mrs. Iselin's cold stare. Lansbury was nominated again for Best Supporting Actress, but lost the trophy to Patty Duke for "The Miracle Worker". No offense to Duke's "waa-waa", but Miss Lansbury was robbed.