Tasteful friends: Angela Lansbury’s House for Sale

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Lovely place. I’d only replace the floor tiles with hardwood and update the kitchen.

The listing

Kitchen is dated but otherwise quite nice.

What neighborhood is that?

The building on the left was obviously once a garage with a driveway in front. Some time over the years, someone had a bright idea to convert it into a room and turn the driveway into a swimming pool - which is the tackiest thing any homeowner can do. (This was popular in the 80s - coverting garage space into a 'living area' to grab an extra room).

Overall, tacky looking house that someone will buy just for the land it's sitting on. They will tear it down and rebuild on it.

A house in Brentwood?! I thought she lived in Cabot Cove, Maine. I am so disillusioned now.

It’s close to the house that acted as The Golden Girls exterior.

I saw her erotically stretching and taking a vaguely masturbatory candle-lit bath in this house in her "Positive Moves" video for seniors, and I've never been able to forget it.

Ehh, the kitchen is fine. I would've replaced the white dishwasher, though.

Unfortunately she sold the rights to Murder, She Wrote some time ago so no nice residuals in her estate.

I remember someone on here once posted her home in Ireland and it looked very comfy

I just can't picture an old British broad living in this house in LA. I can better visualize her in New England, or on Cape Cod in a little cottage.

The kitchen cabinets are dull as dishwater. And the street-view is frumpy. But otherwise it's quite tasteful, if too close to the neighbors, which is a feature of SoCal real estate.

They probably updated the kitchen cabinets and appliances in the 1990s, were happy with them, and never felt they needed updating.

There you go R11

Bless your heart R15 as Angela would say!

R16 It's past your bedtime.

Night luv!

What a lousy use of a fine setting. The monstrosity with the bedrooms is like the "Upper Slope" rentals at ski resorts, characterless and almost dormitory in feeling. Of course the photography is distorting the dimensions, at always, but that space with the fireplace and a couch turned around across from it in what looks like a hallway is impossible. The kitchen is ridiculous and everything Southwest/California about it is pretentiously suburban and inauthentic. Those tile floors look "Country Kitchen Buffet of Wichita" and need to be SOMETHING else).

That term, "primary residence" is a bit grand for the late daughter of a Belfast actress and timber merchant/Labour politician, however damehood-worthy her "personality" was considered.

Not very exciting, but nice enough. I agree the kitchen cabinets have to go.

Unassuming, pleasant, easily adapted to personal taste. It's nice once in a while to see a celebrity house that has some quiet confidence to it.

All that tile flooring throughout implies Angela threw a lot of sex parties (easy cleanup.)

She loved her terra cotta tile and beamed ceilings, didn't she? In LA a well as Ireland.

She loved her bedknobs and broomsticks too.

Sure, some elements, like the kitchen, are a touch outdated, but, like the former owner, it feels welcoming and unfussy. I didn't think I'd ever see the interiors from this video either, R9!!

I like that it's not cluttered with stuff.

[quote] The building on the left was obviously once a garage with a driveway in front. Some time over the years, someone had a bright idea to convert it into a room and turn the driveway into a swimming pool - which is the tackiest thing any homeowner can do. (This was popular in the 80s - coverting garage space into a 'living area' to grab an extra room).

So does that mean no garage? Hard pass.

The middle segment looks like a 1970’s home with no detail and clerestory windows. Which would be fine, if it wasn’t flanks by two wings with a rustic Mediterranean theme.

The kitchen doesn’t bother me. That’s easier to fix than the core architectural mismatch.

[quote] The kitchen cabinets are dull as dishwater.

Oh, dear.

Angela was known to be very English and non-ostentatious. William Peter Blatty wrote “The Exorcist” in her guest house.

What’s wrong with that sentence, r27? “Dishwater” is one word.

[quote]r28 Angela was known to be very English and non-ostentatious.

ie, she didn’t wax her bush.

It’s pretty, warm and inviting. A real home, rather than a place specifically designed to show off. I like the pool area. I imagine Dame Angela had a driver, so the lack of a garage may not have been a problem if he/she simply drove up to the house.

I like the fact that despite having lots of cash, her home was fairly modest and unpretentious. It suits her.

Of course, someone will tear it down in order to build yet another featureless glass and metal box…

She also had a condo in NYC on 58th between 6th and 7th ave. I've been there. She had it renovated after she bought it. She used it when she was in NYC. Not huge but nice and just right for NYC. It was on the 15th floor.

It's nice except for the dead body in the pool.

The pine is a blast from the past. It's very pleasant and unpretentious but the tile and kitchen cabinets have to go,

she probably had a housekeeper/kitchen person because that kitchen is weird. The only way you tolerate a kitchen like that is if you are never in it.

Dame Angela was 96 when she died. She grew up before the Second World War. People of that generation want comfort over style. She had nothing to prove, her body of work spoke for itself. That's a home for her family and entertaining close friends. Perfect for her.

All them dead people from Cabot Cove are buried there.

Huge bathroom for a 90 year old. Kitchen too looks like a life alert paradise

That cottage looks cozy as can be. The California house much less so.

Devoid of charm and boring AF.

Where’s the room where she diddled herself?

[quote] The building on the left was obviously once a garage with a driveway in front. Some time over the years, someone had a bright idea to convert it into a room and turn the driveway into a swimming pool - which is the tackiest thing any homeowner can do.

Good observation, but it doesn't bother me. I get the feeling that there was a huge clean-up in the yard, like on the pergola. I also don't like the broken tile "flooring" outside the house.

So wait, did she have to park on the street?

No, there's still a garage. It looks like the original garage was set back on the property. The new garage is closer to the curb, driveway is shorter.

A shame Angela never got that last great movie role or a TV movie. I could have seen her in the "My House In Umbria" or "Madame Sousatzka". Or perhaps "Elizabeth Is Missing" which was a great return to form for Glenda Jackson.

Where was Angie's Stone Pillow?

If the pool was a driveway does that mean her deck and pool are in the front of the house?

R45 - Yeah, I was hoping she'd get to play some badass villainess in some prestige cable/streaming show again. For a while, there were persistent rumors that she was in talks to play a small but pivotal role in one of the last seasons of Game of Thrones. Ultimately, I think the huge success of Murder She Wrote hurt her chances of ever landing a role like that as, rightly or wrongly, Jessica Fletcher was instantly the first thing most audiences would think of the moment they saw her.

The Balloon Lady is not a bad way to go out.

[quote] If the pool was a driveway does that mean her deck and pool are in the front of the house?

Look at one of the overhead photos. The pool's in the backyard - at the rear of the property. The driveway was never in the back.

R6 makes a good observation that the original garage was probably turned into living space. But I think R6 is incorrect that the pool sits where the driveway used to be.

The "new" garage sits where most of the driveway was. The driveway used to be longer.

Madame Armfeldt was a great way to go out on stage, and very fitting.

I saw her in ALNM in NYC, frowning from her wheelchair as CZ-J flubbed a line or two.

[quote] What’s wrong with that sentence, [R27]? “Dishwater” is one word.

The phrase is “dull as ditchwater.” Dishwater is a malapropism.

He husband was hot as fuck. She always broke into tears when interviewers mentioned him. I would too if I no longer got to ride him.

Tide's turning as.you age, R53. That's how language works.

Not totally into it.

Those Spanish floor tiles are outdated & awful to maintain. Never place outdoor tile inside your home.

She was very open about her kids joining the MANSONS

I like terracotta tiles and they are sustainable. The layout is weird though.

[quote] The only way you tolerate a kitchen like that is if you are never in it.

I'm glad you told me, because I've never had a kitchen. So now I know!

I love terracotta floors but I hate the out the out mix of tiles and dried out wood.

Her first husband was gay.

It’s so surprising to realize my darling Angie purchased this home before I was even born, bless her heart. While I will treasure my Tony Award for our Sondheim show, I would have preferred that we were enjoying that success together… albeit many, many generations apart.