Angela Lansbury endured with a stoic sense of humor the eternal confusion that accompanied her for forty years. They call it popularity syndrome, which consists of thousands and thousands of people around the world being convinced that you are not yourself but the character you have played and that has brought you, every day for months and years, into the living rooms of millions of people and families around the world. There are well-known cases of actors and actresses who have been insulted in the street because one of their most popular roles has been that of a con man, a mobster, or an abuser.