Photo Blast From The Past: Angela Lansbury & Lillian Gish

Welcome to BroadwayWorld.com's newest photo series 'Photo Blast From the Past'. Featuring some of the collected theatre gem's of BroadwayWorld's own senior photographer Walter McBride, the series will feature images from his archives of theatre and Hollywood related gems.

Today we bring you a look at vintage Angela Lansbury and Lillian Gish, who have dozens of Broadway credits between them.  Angela Lansbury made her Broadway debut in Hotel Paradiso in 1957 and is currently starring on Broadway in Gore Vidal's The Best Man. The late Lillian Gish, who passed away in 1993, made her Broadway debut in A Good Little Devil in 1913 and took her last Broadway bow in the 1975 musical revue, A Musical Jubilee. 

Photo Credit: Walter McBride / Retna Ltd.

Lillian Gish and Angela Lansbury photographed in New York City in 1982