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October 12, 2022

Angela Lansbury, Stage & Screen Actor and "Proud Socialist," Dies at 96
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Actor Angela Lansbury has died at the age of 96. She's best known for
her role in the TV series "Murder, She Wrote" and appeared in the 1962
film "The Manchurian Candidate." Angela Lansbury considered herself a
"proud socialist" and came from a political family. Her grandfather,
George Lansbury, was leader of the Labour Party, who led the Poplar
Rates Rebellion in 1921, a protest against unequal taxation in one of
the poorest areas of London.


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