Daily Dose: Angela Lansbury is magic
Welcome to Screen Gems, our dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Angela Lansbury once held the title of gay icon and sex symbol courtesy of her Broadway resume, which saw her show off her powerhouse voice, athletic figure and her dramatic skills.
It’s a shame she rarely got any of those roles in movies, though one in particular, filmed at her peak does hint at her stage talents.
1971’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks casts Landsbury as a would-be witch in a musical about magic, friendship and Nazis.Really.This proto-Harry Potter finds Landsbury’s Ms.
Elgantine Price taking in three young children during the World War II air raids. The four must travel the world via an enchanted bed–including underwater and an island of animated animals–in search of a lost magical spell to help the war effort.
