![]() ![]() ![]() And thanks to its profound silliness and Lansbury’s undeniable charm, it’s one I’ve never forgotten.īedknobs and Broomsticks is full of horrifying problems solved by silly solutions. It was the one kids’ movie she had on VHS in English, so it was the one my sisters and I watched when we visited. Growing up, Bedknobs and Broomsticks was a movie that existed only at my grandmother’s apartment in France. It is, without a doubt, the strangest Disney film I have ever seen. Together, they set off on a witchy adventure across England and animated lands, traveling on a bed transformed into a magical mode of transportation. ![]() But I’ll always remember her as the middle-age apprentice witch who used her powers to travel to underwater cartoon worlds and fight Nazis in Bedknobs and Broomsticks.įor those who don’t know, Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) is a Mary Poppins–esque movie musical about Miss Price (Lansbury) - an unabashedly single witch-in-training before it was cool - who takes in three children fleeing bombing in London during WWII. She even reportedly saved her daughter from Charles Manson. Potts in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and was nominated for three Academy Awards and she became one of the most recognizable television stars ever with Murder, She Wrote (for which she earned 12 Emmy nominations). The queen of musical theater, who died on Tuesday at 96, won five Tony Awards she was immortalized as Mrs. Angela Lansbury was a woman of many talents. ![]()
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