Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves: My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well-Being

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Angela Lansbury’s career has spanned so many decades that she means very different things to people of different ages. When Positive Moves came out, Lansbury was most recognizable as the star of Murder, She Wrote, which was in the fifth of its twelve seasons.

She left us without writing a full memoir, so we must be grateful for the few stories about growing up in England, balancing professional successes with personal struggles, etc.

Though out of print, it is fairly easy to find an inexpensive copy of this wonderful lifestyle and health guide by Angela Lansbury. Angela Lansbury, successful film and television actress, stars in this documentary about her personal program for fitness and well-being. The content and writing style are so breezy and light it feels like you are sitting down with auntie Angela for a good chat. This book is a mixture of class and comfort, avoiding fads and extremes in favor of gentleness, productivity, and practicality.

For a ’70s kid like me, she was notable for being the witchy woman in Bedknobs and Broomsticks, a Disney film that climaxes with live-action suits of armor coming to life and fighting off Nazis. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Some moments are amusing, such as when Lansbury introduces us to "land swimming", an exercise move she came up with herself, and "moving freely", where she manages to keep a straight face while dancing in a peach-colored jumpsuit to the tape's synthesizer background music. One star lost for typical anti-fatness to be expected from a “fitness book”, particularly of its era. Seriously, everyone from Marky Mark to La Toya Jackson, and that includes Golden Girl Estelle Getty, the least-memorable kid on The Cosby Show , and — somehow — comedian David Brenner.

com) is a for-profit, socially conscious business and a global online bookseller that collects and sells new and used books online, matching each purchase with a book donation. While offering her reader techniques in eating, staying active, and living joyfully, Lansbury also discusses how her personal and professional experiences (especially work on Broadway and Murder, She Wrote) helped her discover how to care for herself and those around her. Delacorte Press released the book in 1990, following on the heels of Lansbury’s successful VHS workout tape of the same name that capitalized on the celebrity workout craze of the 80s and 90s. Read all Angela Lansbury, successful film and television actress, stars in this documentary about her personal program for fitness and well-being. I read this in preparation of an "in memorial" episode about Lansbury for my podcast, Advanced TV Herstory.