Ep. 215 - Dame Angela Lansbury with April Wolfe and S.A. Smythe

Pop Rocket

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

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!

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0:00.0	Oh, hey there I'm Guy Branham and welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show picking over all the pop culture we love to love.
0:13.0	With me to talk of TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining,
0:17.0	Our journalist and novelist Margaret Wobbler.
0:19.0	Hello there, Guy.
0:20.0	Hello Margaret, how are you doing?
0:21.0	I'm doing pretty good.
0:22.0	Pretty snazzy.
0:23.0	Good. We've also got a pop culture scholar in Dike about town, Karen Toxen.
0:28.0	Hey guy, Hi Rockett News.
0:30.0	Hello Karen. Yes. I don't know, just what's going on?
0:34.0	I mean, you know, things are going on.
0:36.0	I'm dressed like I bought all my clothes from the professor's store today.
0:40.0	There's some mustard and black going on that caused me to say go stealers to Karen
0:46.2	I was really proud of myself I actually said go fillies or stealers or something like that and then Margaret had to correct me
0:52.1	So we really have been able to mask a village here.
0:58.0	We've also got two very special guests with us here. First off we got film critic and host of Max
1:03.8	funds own Switchblade Sisters, April Wolf. Hi Guy. Hello April. What have you
1:09.5	guys been talking about on Switchblade Sisters? Oh my God, a lot of horror stuff.
1:14.3	We're definitely going to do some drop-dead gorgeous coming up soon.
1:17.3	Okay.
1:18.3	And we have a new player here tonight.
1:21.4	It's Arthur Poet Scholar, Essay.
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