ASSOCIATED PRESS
Angela Lansbury, 17, who came to the United States three years ago with a group of child refugees from England, had a court approve her film contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio at Los Angeles, California, August 19, 1943. Lansbury, the big-eyed, scene-stealing British actress who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy” and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday. She was 96.