A vivacious conquerer of stage and screen (both big and small), Dame Angela Lansbury has passed away just five days shy of her 97th birthday. And though she’s mainly remembered for her seminal portrayals of a maturing mystery writer/detective and a lovable singing teapot, we at Mr. Skin prefer to honor the Broadway and Hollywood icon for who she truly was - a smokin’ hot babe with a bangin’ body.

The multitalented actress’s epic seventy-five year film career began with a breakout performance when she was just 19, with an Oscar nod for her role as a beguiling and vaguely sinister maid in the Ingrid Bergman-starring hit noir film Gaslight. From there, she would go on to play desirable beauties in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and The Harvey Girls (1946) opposite Judy Garland, give us skin-tillating bare midriff in Samson and Delilah (1949), and show off some stunning cleavage in the hilarious Danny Kaye comedy The Court Jester (1955).

R.I.P. Angela Lansbury, Hollywood Golden Era Hottie

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And then, despite only being in her mid-thirties, Tinseltown’s view of Angela went from sensual to maternal. She started to portray the mothers of grown men, such as Elvis’s mom in Blue Hawai’i and Laurence Harvey’s devious mother in The Manchurian Candidate. She still knocked these roles out of the park (she’s seriously amazing in The Manchurian Candidate), but it signaled the early end of Angela getting recognized for the stone cold fox she continued to be.

Angie kept gifting the world legendary stage performances, such as her original portrayal of Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of FleetStreet, triumphed on the small screen with a record 12 acting nominations for Murder, She Wrote, and cemented her place in the hearts of children everywhere with Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Beauty And The Beast, Anastasia, and Nanny McPhee.

But let’s stand at attention and give one last salute - in our pants - to the absolute queen who’s sexiness was gone too soon.