Inside Angela Lansbury's Relationship With Actor Richard Cromwell

Of her first marriage, Lansbury would later reflect and say, "It was just a terrible error I made as a very young woman. But I don't regret it, and I'm sorry for the sadness that it caused him down the road... [when] he realized he couldn't fulfil his function" (via Radio Times).

By 1949, Lansbury was remarried — this time to fellow Brit Peter Shaw, who, at various points in his career, worked as a talent agent for the William Morris Agency, a studio executive, and a co-executive producer on Murder, She Wrote (via The New York Times).

The two were married for 54 years before Shaw's death in 2003.

"We had the perfect relationship. Not many people can say that. He was everything to me: We were partners at work, as well as husband and wife and lovers. I don't know how we had such a long marriage, but the simple fact was that we were devoted to one another," Lansbury said of their union (via Fabiosa).

Looks like — at least for Lansbury — the second time was the charm.