Angela Lansbury is the daughter of a singer and a democrat.
After a well-reviewed appearance in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959)  for which she had filmed in the Australian Outback  and a minor role in A Breath of Scandal (1960), Lansbury appeared in 1961's Blue Hawaii as the mother of a character played by Elvis Presley
That year, Lansbury's grandfather died, and with the onset of the Blitz, Macgill decided to take Angela, Bruce and Edgar to the United States; Isolde remained in Britain with her new husband, the actor Peter Ustinov

