"Angela Lansbury wed her second husband, actor and producer Peter Shaw, in London in 1949, marking the start of a devoted partnership that would last more than five decades. Already celebrated for her Academy Award–nominated performances in Gaslight (1944) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Lansbury found in Shaw both a romantic partner and a trusted professional collaborator. Their London wedding, attended by close friends and family, reflected a sense of intimacy over Hollywood spectacle.

We mourn the passing of Angela Lansbury, the beloved star of stage and screen who was most memorably featured on Great Performances in 1985 with her signature role of “Mrs. Lovett” in Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd.” Watch Angela Lansbury discuss working with Hal Prince and his creative process in "Harold Prince: The Director’s Life." [VID: You learn the show before you ever set foot at the first rehearsal. Now that was a first for me, but I went along with it, because I thought, Well, this is