About this episode
Angela Lansbury, five-time Tony Award winner and three time Oscar nominee, was born October 16, 1925. She has enjoyed a long and successful career on stage, screen, and television, and she's still going strong. Generations of fans know her from her celebrated stage work ( Sweeney Todd , Gypsy , Blithe Spirit , and so many more), her films (including what is arguably her best performance as the cold and calculating Mrs. Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate - the performance that earned her a third Oscar nomination), and her voice, perhaps most memorably when she sang the title song of Disney's Beauty and the Beast . And to a child of the 80s and a mystery fan like yours truly, she will forever be best-selling author and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote . In honor of her birthday, here is "A Thing of Beauty," a May 29, 1947 episode of Suspense starring Angela Lansbury. This twisty tale features Hans Conried and Cathy Lewis in the supporting cast.