Happy Birthday to Angela Lansbury!

Before she became best known for starring on Murder She Wrote for 12 years, the great Angela Lansbury triumphed on the big screen and on stage.

She’s a three-time Academy Award nominee who made her film debut in 1944′s Gaslight and went on to appear in National Velvet, The Harvey Girls, The Picture of Dorian Gray, State of the Union and The Manchurian Candidate.

But there was greater glory to be had on Broadway where Miss Lansbury headlined the musicals Mame, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd and Dear World and won Tony Awards for each of them. She won her fifth Tony in June for featured actress in a play for Blithe Spirit.

Miss Lansbury turns 84 years old today and is still looking ahead with a Broadway revival of A Little Night Music set to open in December.

Happy birthday to a great lady. Let’s celebrate with a few of her best-known numbers: Beauty and the Beast and Everything’s Coming Up Roses:

Everything’s Coming Up Roses at the 1989 Tony Awards. The sound will come on once she hits the stage so be patient – it’s well worth it.