Glynis M. P. Johns Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Glynis Johns (born 5 October 1923) is a British stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer. She is best known for creating the role of Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award, and for playing Winifred Banks in Walt Disney's musical motion picture box office smash, Mary Poppins. In both roles, she originated songs written specifically for her, including "Send in the Clowns," composed by Stephen Sondheim, and "Sister Suffragette," written by the Sherman Brothers.
Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama, Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play
Movies
Mary Poppins, While You Were Sleeping, The Court Jester, The Sundowners, Mad About Men, Miranda, Superstar, The Sword and the Rose, The Ref, The Halfway House, No Highway in the Sky, All Mine to Give, 49th Parallel, Dear Brigitte, The Chapman Report, Under Milk Wood, Frieda, The Vault of Horror, Rob...
TV Shows
Glynis, Coming of Age
Star Sign
Libra
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Trademark
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Lisp, breathless voice
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Sparkling blue eyes
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Platinum blonde hair
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Quote
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[on playing a mermaid in Miranda (1948)] I was quite an athlete, my muscles were strong from dancing, so the tail was just fine. I swam like a porpoise.
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In classical theatre in Europe, everybody plays all kinds of parts. Juliets go on to play the Nurses; they don't want to play Juliet again. I think we've got to remember to grab onto our perks, whatever is the good thing about each age. Each stage of life should be a progression.
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[on her return to "A Little Night Music", 1991] I've been doing songs from the show off and on through the years. So I've never really been away. Even a few months ago, I was singing "Send in the Clowns" for a charity performance. But my doctors were advising that I not work for a couple of months -- that I needed to relax, take it easy, do physiotherapy for my dental problems. More specifically, I had to make the decision about whether I wanted to come back playing another role: to hear somebody else eight performances a week, doing something that I was used to doing. You know, "Clowns" was written for me.
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Fact
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Played the landlady in The Sundowners.
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She is a naturalized United States citizen.
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She is a staunch conservative Republican.
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Appears on the cover of the album "Led Zeppelin II" by Led Zeppelin.
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She currently resides in a quiet retirement complex in Los Angeles, California.
Sources give different spellings of her mother's name, who was a pianist (c. 1920-1971). One source spells it Alys Maude Steel-Payne. Another spells it Alyce Steele.
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Married and divorced four times, her first husband Anthony Forwood is the father of her only child, Gareth Forwood; her second husband, David Ramsey Foster, was a World War II hero who became the chairman of Colgate Palmolive International; marriage to third husband, Cecil Peter L. Henderson, ended after a year; and fourth husband Elliot Arnold, a writer and essayist, penned "A Night of Watching", "Camp Grant Massacre" and "Personal Combat".
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She was named a Disney Legend in 1998.
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Best known for her role as Mrs. Winifred Banks, the children's mother in the Disney musical Mary Poppins (1964).
Won a Tony Award (Best Actress in a Musical) for her role in "A Little Night Music" in 1973.
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Stephen Sondheim wrote "Send in the Clowns", in "A Little Night Music", with shorter phrasing to accommodate her (Although her voice, alternately described as smoky or silvery or wistful, was lovely, she was unable to sustain notes for long.).
$200,000
