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Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (5 October 1923 - 4 January 2024) was a British stage and screen actress active for over sixty years.

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Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (5 October 1923 - 4 January 2024) was a British stage and screen actress active for over sixty years.
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Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (born 5 October 1923 in Pretoria, UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica) is a retired British stage and screen actress active for over sixty years, and one of the last living performers from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood.

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Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (born 5 (5 October 1923 in Pretoria, UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica) is - 4 January 2024) was a retired British stage and screen actress active for over sixty years, and one of the last living performers from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood.years.



Born to British theatre actors in South Africa, Johns began her career at the age of ten in England, working on the stage and eventually making it to the big screen in the late [[TheThirties 1930s]]. Opportunities to star in bigger films came in the early [[TheForties '40s]] with roles in ''49th Parallel'' and ''The Adventures of Tartu''. Following UsefulNotes/WorldWarII she found further success with ''Miranda'' and ''The Court Jester''.

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Born to British theatre actors in South Africa, Johns began her career at the age of ten in England, working on the stage and eventually making it to the big screen in the late [[TheThirties 1930s]]. Opportunities to star in bigger films came in the early [[TheForties '40s]] with roles in ''49th Parallel'' and ''The Adventures of Tartu''. Following UsefulNotes/WorldWarII UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, she found further success with ''Miranda'' and ''The Court Jester''.
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As the years passed, Johns was relegated to character parts, but this era also gave her most well-remembered roles, like the suffragette mother in ''Film/MaryPoppins'' and her Tony Award-winning turn as Desiree Armfeldt in ''A Little Night Music''.

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As the years passed, Johns was relegated to character parts, but this era also gave her most well-remembered roles, like the suffragette mother Winnifred Banks in ''Film/MaryPoppins'' and her Tony Award-winning turn as Desiree Armfeldt in ''A Little Night Music''.

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Glynis Johns (born 5 October 1923 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a retired British stage and screen actress active for over sixty years, and one of the last living performers from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood. From the playhouses of London's West End to the movies, television, Broadway, and everything in between, Johns's striking beauty -- lovingly contrasted with her husky, feminine voice -- made her a favourite among her many fans. One of her most famous film roles is as the suffragette mother Winifred Banks in ''Mary Poppins''.

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Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (born 5 October 1923 in Pretoria, South Africa) UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica) is a retired British stage and screen actress active for over sixty years, and one of the last living performers from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood. UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood.

From the playhouses of London's UsefulNotes/{{London}}'s West End to the movies, television, Broadway, and everything in between, Johns's striking beauty -- lovingly contrasted with her husky, feminine voice -- made her a favourite among her many fans. One of her most famous film roles is as the suffragette mother Winifred Banks in ''Mary Poppins''.



As the years passed, Johns was relegated to character parts, but this era also gave her most well-remembered roles, like the neglectful suffragette mother in ''Mary Poppins'' and her Tony Award-winning turn as Desiree Armfeldt in ''A Little Night Music''.

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As the years passed, Johns was relegated to character parts, but this era also gave her most well-remembered roles, like the neglectful suffragette mother in ''Mary Poppins'' ''Film/MaryPoppins'' and her Tony Award-winning turn as Desiree Armfeldt in ''A Little Night Music''.






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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' ([[Recap/CheersS1E20 1 episode]], 1983) as Mrs. Helen Chambers

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* ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'' (1962) as Jane Lindstrom

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