Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves: My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well-Being

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For some, she’s a film noir femme fatale, and for others, the voice of the teapot in Beauty and the Beast, with starring roles in Broadway’s Mame and Sweeney Todd somewhere in the middle. I have been mourning Angela Lansbury, my Hollywood grandmother, these last few months, and having recently turned 40 myself I decided it was a good time to check in on her program for “fitness and well-being” in one’s later years. While offering her reader techniques in eating, staying active, and living joyfully, Lansbury also discusses how her personal and professional experiences (especially work on Broadway and Murder, She Wrote) helped her discover how to care for herself and those around her. I read this in preparation of an "in memorial" episode about Lansbury for my podcast, Advanced TV Herstory. Angela Lansbury’s career has spanned so many decades that she means very different things to people of different ages.

One star lost for typical anti-fatness to be expected from a “fitness book”, particularly of its era.Published in 1990, Lansbury's thoughts on managing her weight, moods, effects of aging and staying mentally healthy are mostly timeless. Lansbury did exactly what she said she would do in this book - she answered fans who asked her "What do you do. Right from a childhood of dancing across Regents Park in a toga, Lansbury had a positive, practical approach to life. Ultimately, I found the great actress’s account of her fitness and diet regime a little thin/idiosyncratic, though I did mark a vegetable soup recipe I might try later this week.

Read all Angela Lansbury, successful film and television actress, stars in this documentary about her personal program for fitness and well-being.All written content, unless otherwise noted as being quotes, has been written and copyrighted by me. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Lansbury's philosophy was to stay positive about each new day: "I take these few moments to focus on the day ahead. This book is a mixture of class and comfort, avoiding fads and extremes in favor of gentleness, productivity, and practicality.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Delacorte Press released the book in 1990, following on the heels of Lansbury’s successful VHS workout tape of the same name that capitalized on the celebrity workout craze of the 80s and 90s. Also, for such a talent to have not written a high profile memoir, the personal perspectives and stories contained in this work make it essential to any further understanding of her. Seriously, everyone from Marky Mark to La Toya Jackson, and that includes Golden Girl Estelle Getty, the least-memorable kid on The Cosby Show , and — somehow — comedian David Brenner.

Her art shaped my life so I am definitely here for good and the old lady just got 96 (I think) so I assume she knows what's up. Her clothes suited her age, but they were something that older women’s clothes hadn’t been for decades: they were becoming. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.