Day: November 19, 2022

Best-bets for Nov. 21: current stars, eternal Lansbury

1) Angela Lansbury tribute, Turner Classic Movies. Here’s a full day with Lansbury, who died last month at 96. It starts at 6:15 a.m. with “National Velvet” (1944) and ends with the 3:45 a.m. “Sweeney Todd” – the only nod to her mastery of musicals. There are some obscure films and then the three that brought her Oscar nominations – “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) at 8, “Gaslight” (1944, when she was 18; she’s shown here behind Ingrid Bergman) at 10:15 and “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1945) at 12:15 a.m. Read more…