Typewriter used by Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) on Murder, She Wrote
name: label: user
content: Lansbury, Angela
label: maker
content: Royal Typewriter
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Typewriter used by Angela Lansbury in the role of Jessica Fletcher in the television series Murder, She Wrote. The black Royal typewriter is a manual model, with black keys.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Murder, She Wrote was a mystery drama series created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson, and William Link, produced by Universal Television and Corymore Productions. It aired on the CBS television network from 1984-1996. The series starred Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher, a widowed retired English teacher who writes and solves crimes in her hometown of Cabot Cove, Maine. The critically-acclaimed show was nominated for 41 Emmy Awards over its twelve-year run, winning for Outstanding Music Composition and Costume Design. Despite being nominated for Outstanding Leading Actress every year of the show's run, Lansbury never won, although she did receive multiple Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a TV Series - Drama. The series was a ratings success as well, and earned praise for its representation of a capable, intelligent, and indpendent older woman in a television landscape where such characters were lacking.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Television broadcasts
label: Subject
content: Television
label: Subject
content: Typewriter
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Angela Lansbury
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0026.01
label: accession number
content: 2008.0026
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0026.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Typewriter
label: Object Name
content: Typewriter, used by Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury): on TV show "Murder She Wrote"
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 16 in x 14 in; 22.86 cm x 40.64 cm x 35.56 cm