Glynis Johns
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One of her husbands was Anthony Forwood (1915–1988), with whom she had johns her only child, Gareth Forwood (1945–2007), who was a British Glynis Johns actor. The following year, she starred in the especially sad Christmas film All Mine to Give.
Her roots are in West Wales, and she was W. E. Johns born in Pretoria while her parents were performing on tour there. Johns made her 1938 film debut in the movie version of Winifred Holtby Glynis Johns s novel, South Riding. Her last film appearance was in the 1999 film Superstar. Johns has also appeared on television and on stage, most memorably in Stephen Sondheim s musical A Little Night Music.
Glynis Johns (born 5 October 1923) is a South African-born Welsh stage and film actress, Glynis Johns dancer, pianist and singer (notably of Send in the Clowns, which she originated in Stephen Sondheim s A Little Night Music). Johns was also married to David Foster, who at the time was chairman of Colgate Palmolive International. Grace Hartman (1948) · Nanette Fabray (1949) · Mary Martin (1950) · Ethel Merman Glynis Johns (1951) · Gertrude Lawrence (1952) · Rosalind Russell (1953) · Dolores Gray (1954) · Mary Martin (1955) · Gwen Verdon (1956) · Judy Holliday (1957) · Thelma Ritter/ Gwen Verdon (1958) · Gwen Verdon (1959) · Mary Martin (1960) · Elizabeth Seal (1961) · Anna Maria Alberghetti/ Diahann Carroll (1962) · Vivien Leigh (1963) · Carol Channing (1964) · Liza Minnelli (1965) · Angela Lansbury (1966) · Barbara Harris (1967) · Patricia Routledge/ Leslie Uggams (1968) · Angela Lansbury (1969) · Lauren Bacall (1970) · Helen Gallagher (1971) · Alexis Smith (1972) · Glynis Johns (1973) · Virginia Capers (1974) · Angela Lansbury (1975) Complete list · (1948-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present) .
The song Send in the Clowns was written with her in mind, and in 1973, she won a Tony award for her role in the musical. One of her best known film roles was that of Winifred Banks, the children s mother, a suffragette, in Mary Poppins (1964).
She made a successful transition to Hollywood, appearing in Personal Affair (1953) starring Gene Tierney and in The Court Jester (1956) as Danny Kaye s love interest. Johns received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the 1960 film The Sundowners.
She is also an accomplished dancer, and was qualified to teach ballet by the age of ten. Johns was born in Pretoria, South Africa, the daughter of Alys Maude (née Steele-Payne), a pianist, and Mervyn Johns (1899-1992), the British stage and film actor. (Anthony Forwood was later Sir Dirk Bogarde s life companion and manager.) She once remarked that she was wed so often because she married all of her lovers.
In 1952, she co-starred in the movie version of Arnold Bennett s novel The Card. With a career spanning seven decades, Johns is often cited as the complete actress , who happens to be a trained pianist and singer.
The program was cancelled after thirteen weeks. Johns has been married four times. In the fall of 1963, she and Keith Andes starred as a married couple in her sitcom-drama television series called Glynis.
In the 1962-1963 television season, Johns guest starred in the CBS anthology series The Lloyd Bridges Show. In 1944, she appeared with her father in Halfway House, and in 1948 starred as a mermaid in Miranda (Johns later reprised the role in a 1954 sequel, Mad About Men).
