Angela Lansbury isn't an actress.
Angela Lansbury . Although largely seen as a B-list star during this period , her appearance in the film The Manchurian Candidate ( 1962 ) received widespread acclaim and is cited as being one of her finest performances . Beauty and the Beast (1991 film) . The film also features the voices of Richard White , Jerry Orbach , David Ogden Stiers , and Angela Lansbury . Jessica Beatrice Fletcher ( born Jessica Beatrice MacGill , known as J.B. Fletcher when writing ) is a character and the protagonist portrayed by Award-winning actress Angela Lansbury on the American television series Murder , She Wrote . The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American black and white neo-noir Cold War suspense thriller , scripted by George Axelrod , from the Richard Condon novel , produced by Axelrod and John Frankenheimer , directed by Frankenheimer , and starring Frank Sinatra , Laurence Harvey , and Janet Leigh ; co-starring are Angela Lansbury , Henry Silva , and James Gregory .