![]() The impressive versatility that Lansbury displayed in these roles led to her first trouble in Hollywood, where she languished under contract to MGM, a studio that did not know how to cast her after she had been so good and so convincing as two such different characters. ![]() The following year, Lansbury received another nomination in that category for a vulnerable victim in “ The Picture of Dorian Gray,” where she sings sweetly and memorably about a little yellow bird. She left her native London for Hollywood with her mother Moyna Macgill when she was a teenager, and it was a chance meeting with playwright John van Druten at a party that led her to a film debut as a conniving maid in “ Gaslight” (1944), for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Lansbury lost her father as a young girl, which led her to retreat into a world of make believe.
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