Murder, She Wrote - When the Fat Lady Sings - 10:50 am Saturday, December 20 on 5SELECT

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When the Fat Lady Sings
Season 6, Episode 8

Jessica visits the opera and finds that, amid the hysteria and emotion of the singing world, a murder has taken place that appears at first to be a case of self-defence. A world-famous tenor faces a battle to clear his name. Angela Lansbury and Keith Michell star

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Movie/Drama Mystery

Cast & Crew

Angela Lansbury (Actor) .. Jessica Fletcher

Theodore Bikel (Actor) .. Rosanno Bertolucci

Carol Lawrence (Actor) .. Silvana Bertolucci

Lila Kaye (Actor) .. Teresa Mancini

Kathleen Beller (Actor) .. Maria Deschier

Jerry Stiller (Actor) .. Lt Sidney Bimbaum

Keith Michell (Actor) .. Dennis Stanton

Walter Olkewicz (Actor) .. Howard Bergmann

Walter Grauman (Director)

Peter S Fischer (Writer)

Richard Levinson (Writer)

William Link (Writer)

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Did You Know..

Angela Lansbury (Actor) .. Jessica Fletcher

Born: October 16, 1925 in London

Best Known For: Murder, She Wrote.

Early-life: Angela Brigid Lansbury was born in London on October 16, 1925. Her mother was Irish actress Moyna MacGill; her father, Edgar Lansbury, was a timber merchant and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. She has younger, twin brothers, who became theatre producers. Her cousin was legendary animator Oliver Postgate. Angela's father died in 1934, and her mother became involved with a former soldier who was strict with the children. Her mother eventually took her children to Hollywood when she landed a part in a touring Noel Coward play.

Career: While working in a department store in LA, Lansbury met a casting director through her mother. He offered her a role in the 1944 film Gaslight; she was just 18, but it landed her an Oscar nomination. Roles in National Velvet, Blue Hawaii and Bedknobs and Broomsticks followed. She gained further Academy Award nominations for The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Manchurian Candidate. She's also worked extensively on stage, winning a record five Tony Awards. But it was playing Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series Murder, She Wrote, that turned her into a household name. More recently, Lansbury has appeared in Nanny McPhee and Mr Popper's Penguins.

Quote: "I'm never left behind. I'm the bionic woman."

Trivia: Arguably her most offbeat work is a fitness book - Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves - My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well-Being.