does not suffer fools. Born into a dynasty of Hollywood elites, she is blasé about maintaining Los Angeles pleasantries.
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Carmel Dagan Staff Writer English actress Glynis Johns, who played the daffy suffragette mother Mrs. Banks in the classic film “Mary Poppins,” died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles, her manager confirmed to The Washington Post. She was 100.
She won a Tony for her role as Desiree Armfeldt in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music,” introducing the song “Send in the Clowns” — written for her by Sondheim. In addition she was Oscar nominated for her supporting role in 1960’s “The Sundowners.” The actress was known for a delightfully husky, breathy voice, a buoyant persona and, when she was young, a charming flirtatiousness. Johns had been an actress in England for more than 20 years when she was cast in Disney’s adaptation of P.L.
Travers’ Mary Poppins novels. The trouble was that Johns thought she had been cast as Mary Poppins. To help the medicine go down when he told her the news that she had, in fact, been cast as Mrs.
Banks, Walt Disney ordered his legendary musical team the Sherman brothers to write a big number for the character. They made Mrs. Banks a suffragette, which explained why she was away from the house and a nanny was needed, and Johns performed “Sister Suffragette” in the final film.
(Over the years many have been bothered by the fact that this proto-feminist is so subservient to Mr. Banks whenever they are at home together, but this was certainly not a decision made by Johns.) Johns had a long career in English films, but more recently she had appeared in American movies including 1994’s “The Ref,” starring Denis Leary, in which she played the mother of Kevin Spacey’s squabbling character. Critic James Berardinelli said, “Glynis Johns is also
.does not suffer fools. Born into a dynasty of Hollywood elites, she is blasé about maintaining Los Angeles pleasantries.
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Glynis Johns has sadly died.
“Mary Poppins,” has died. She was 100. After a career spanning eight decades, Johns died Thursday of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Hollywood, her manager, Mitch Clem, told the Hollywood Reporter.Born in South Africa in 1923, Johns had a theatrical family – her father, Mervyn Johns, was a Welsh actor, and her mother, Alyce Steele-Wareham, was an Australian-born concert pianist.
Glynis Johns, the actress who played Mrs. Winifred Banks in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, has sadly died at the age of 100. The star's publicist confirmed on Thursday 4 January that she died of natural causes.
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