Episode notes

When she was 17, Dame Angela Lansbury quit her job at a department store to take a part in a movie, as 17-year-olds are wont to do. She played a young maid to Ingrid Bergman’s character in Gaslight, a film that garnered seven Oscar nominations and two wins, including one for Best Actress for Bergman. It’s the typical tale of a young actress trying to make it big and having to struggle, role after role after role after role, to hold her own on screen with the most celebrated actors in the world, on Oscar-winning film after Oscar-winning film.

She’s now 93 years old and has been in the business for nearly eight decades, dominating the big screen, the small screen and the stage.

For this episode of Pop Rocket, we felt it important to give Dame Lansbury’s career a discussion worthy of the legend that she is, and we couldn’t do it by ourselves. We needed to bring in the biggest Fangelas we could find outside of her immediate family: April Wolfe and S.A. Smythe, two individuals that get positively giddy noting which Murder She Wrote episodes comment on on colonialism and the prison industrial complex.

You guys, this is such a great episode, and that’s not even including everyone’s All Abouts!

All Abouts

April: Gayle King’s interview with R. Kelly

SA Smythe:

Solange’s new album When I Get Home

Margaret Wappler:

Season 8 Game of Thrones trailer

Karen:

The Big Family Cooking Showdown

Guy:

That’s My Jam

Margaret: Solange – Binz

Guy: Jonas Brothers – Sucker

Karen: What is the Time, Dirty Projectors

April: Marlene Dietrich – Such Trying Times

S.A. Smythe: Angela Lansbury – Till the Clouds Roll By

Guy: Leaving Neverland

With Guy Branum, Karen Tongson, Margaret Wappler, Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh,

S.A. Smythe

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