folks our next guest has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won four Tonys but these
days probably best known for her long-running role on the CBS Powerhouse Blockbuster program Matlock
do me a favor please say hello to America's most beloved actress Angela Lansbury thank you very
much for coming oh it's a great what do you have there in the bag well I got a little present for
you something for your pool oh bless your heart yeah so certainly getting a lot of use out of that
wait a minute I don't know whether I can find it hang on just a second what do you have in there oh
by the way Angela while you're looking I'd like you to meet slash slash Angela Lansbury Angela
Lansbury slash hello hello Paul you see I know who everybody is I've done a lot of homework oh Ducks
oh yeah well I figured if you had dogs you needed Ducks you know absolutely okay now be very careful
all right all right watch your step Angela good to see you floating face
down in the pool there there very nice thank you very sweet of you
know Angela and maybe you don't know this but ever since we now what are you doing
oh you're gonna knit see that that sounds a very bad sign to the audience if the guests
because the guests come on and are so bored they have to do like knitting or
needlepoint I gotta tell you that I bring you greetings from my crew the crew of
mirrors my best to your crew thank you very much now that brings me to the my original
Point uh we've been trying to have you on every we want to do on our very first show way back
in the summer and we've been trying almost every week now is uh is something about the
show something about me would you well you're in New York you know and I'm in Los Angeles and
airplanes ever heard of airplanes let me tell you I mean for me to get to New York
to to be on your show would be well it'd be the hottest thing in the world for me
to do otherwise I guarantee you I haven't even seen a show in New York for the past
five years isn't that incredible and been just that busy with Murder She Wrote I would guess
well yeah it's a very Relentless Nine Months of the Year well you do a great job now this
this show has been like the the Mainstay the Cornerstone the Blockbuster the PowerHouse for
the network stop no it's true I've got a lot of companies you're the reason I came to CBS
foreign
I said to myself even if I can just get some of Angela Lansbury's tip money I'm there
listen you you've kept my name in front of the public I want you to
know that yeah you're doing a great job and I've noticed on your show a couple
of things and correct me if I'm wrong whenever somebody comes to visit you
chances are one of the folks in the group before the program is over we'll be dead no doubt about
it they're not called the murder capital of the world for nothing I mean that's what Cabot Cove is
you know and that's what we're into that we're in the business of murder and then whenever there's a
newcomer yeah yeah he's the Killer true we have to be very careful in fact because so often you know
we have a wonderful guest star and the audience immediately says oh he's the killer you know so
we have to switch it sometimes so that they're so we don't give the give the game away it's
it's quite something has anybody ever suggested as a possible script like for an ending show that
You Bet Your Life they have and not just an ending show let me tell you what you come back from that
woman out of our Lives you know no it's incredible and we have such a ridiculous ways of murdering
people have you ever noticed I mean we kill people with coffee pots you know we dropped them in the
tubs with with the hair dryers and you know well I must tell you trying to find new ways to bump
people off without that easy no and without a lot of violence which as you know I'm dead against
it ain't easy yes but see I think I think that explains the success of the show it's it's it's
not the plots it's not the murder victims it's not the guest stars you're in you're out week
in week out people watch the show because they like you and that's amazing it's very interesting
as if there's something very comforting about Murder She Wrote you know on a Sunday night it's
just a lovely little puzzle you know somebody gets bumped off and we find out who it is and
uh Jessica solves the crime and then all's right with the world that's right nobody has
nightmares a little Sunday evening homicide and then right to bed we all love mystery yes it's
the single most most popular form I think of uh of drama really is Mystery let me mention one
other thing here one of my all-time favorite films is uh Gaslight man what a piece of work
that thing is what a mystery that was yeah but Jesus going up and down you know I mean that was
one and you you were hot I'm telling you you were unbelievable you were like kind of the
and you you uh when you shot the film you were like 17 or 18 or something I was 17
years overnight when I started it and uh I became 18. I had my 18th birthday on the set and I never
forget Ingrid Bergman and Charles boy they gave me a party and George Q called the director I mean
these were giants you know these people absolutely I was just a little English girl who knew a from a
bull's foot as my mother used to say and you know it's quite something the only thing was that I was
called upon you may or may not know this to smoke in the movie I had to smoke a rather long white
charout with Charles Boyer and we had this rather suggestive scene in which I was smoking well I had
a welfare worker on the set with me so I wasn't allowed to smoke as a kid you were underage you
couldn't smoke sure we had to wait till my 18th birthday well let me tell you all hell broke
loose everybody lit up I lit up I inhale you know it's not a way to celebrate your birthday because
I sound as if I'm glorifying smoking and I'm not you know because with different
times what a great film ladies and gentlemen we're a little late we've been ordered off
the air my thanks to Angela Lansbury continued success with your great program my thanks also
to slash and Michael Keaton thanks for watching we'll see you tomorrow night bye-bye everybody
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