Veteran performer Glynis Johns, finest identified for her position because the mom of Jane and Michael in Mary Poppins, has died aged 100.
South-African born Ms. Johns, who turned 100 in October and have become the oldest dwelling Disney Legend, handed away in a Beverly Hills retirement house.
“Glynis powered her means by way of life with intelligence, wit, and a love for efficiency, affecting thousands and thousands of lives,” supervisor Mitch Clem mentioned in an announcement. “She entered my life early in my profession and set a really excessive bar on how one can navigate this business with grace, class, and reality. Your personal reality. Her mild shined very brightly for 100 years. She had a wit that would cease you in your tracks powered by a coronary heart that cherished deeply and purely. Today is a somber day for Hollywood. Not solely can we mourn the passing of our pricey Glynis, however we mourn the top of the golden age of Hollywood.”
She appeared in additional than 60 movies and 30 performs, is the recipient of awards and nominations together with the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, the Academy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, the Laurel Awards, the Tony Awards, the Drama Desk Awards and the Laurence Olivier Awards.
She appeared alongside everybody from Roger Moore to Sandra Bullock, and later in TV reveals together with Batman, Cheers and Murder She Wrote.
She additionally appeared alongside James Stewart, David Niven, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, David Niven, Danny Kaye, Lana Turner, Jack Hawkins, Richard Todd, Richard Attenborough, Alec Guinness and Diana Dors.
Her display screen credit embody No Highway within the Sky, The Weak and the Wicked, Mad About Men, The Court Jester, The Sundowners (filmed in Australia in 1960), The Cabinet of Caligari, The Chapman Report and Under Milk Wood. Renowned for the breathy high quality of her husky voice, Johns sang songs written particularly for her each on display screen and stage, together with “Send In the Clowns”, composed by Stephen Sondheim for Broadway’s A Little Night Music, by which she originated the position of Desiree Armfeldt.
Johns’ household lately known as on the UK authorities to provide her a Damehood.
Her closest dwelling relative, grandson Thomas Forwood, mentioned, “Glynis loved a wonderful profession over many a long time throughout which she confirmed her immense expertise and flexibility in a spread of elements on display screen and stage.
“Almost everybody may have seen her work and be accustomed to her face and voice – she’s in so many items that individuals maintain pricey.”
Johns’ remaining display screen look got here in Molly Shannon’s Superstar (1999), by which she performed Grandma.
Source: Variety
