(The sole exception was when she sang "Little Yellow Bird" in a sweet, untrained soprano in 1945's The Picture of Dorian Gray.) It is the only recording of any of Lansbury's legendary musical performances, and it is, in the opinion of many critics, her best.įrom the mid-1940s, when she was signed to an MGM contract, Angela Lansbury had a long and not terribly successful film career that only occasionally took advantage of her nuanced acting range, and almost never used her talent as a singer. It was filmed at the end of a ten-month road tour of the show, with George Hearn in the title role playing opposite Lansbury. Share Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982) is a videotaped live performance of the Broadway show which won Angela Lansbury her fourth Tony Award as best actress in a musical.
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