Unhappy with the roles she was being given by MGM, Lansbury instructed her manager, Harry Friedman of MCA Inc., to terminate her contract in 1952, in the same year that her son Anthony was born. Soon after the birth, she joined the East Coast touring productions of two former-Broadway plays: Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's "Remains to be Seen" and Louis Verneuil's "Affairs of State." Biographer Margaret Bonanno later stated that at this point, Lansbury's career had "hit an all-time low."