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"Glynis Johns, most famous for her role as the suffragette mother Mrs Winifred
Banks in Disney’s
Mary Poppins (1964), passed away last week at the age of
100.
A fourth-generation performer who made her stage debut in London when she was
only three weeks old, Johns inherited her Welsh father’s love of acting. She
appeared with him in
The Halfway House (1944) and
The Sundowners (1960) and
argued for the establishment of a Welsh National Theatre as early as 1971.
Johns’s career spanned eight decades in Hollywood, Broadway and the British
stage and screen. As Palm Springs’s
Desert Sun reported in 1962, her “husky
voice and big blue eyes” were her hallmarks. But it was her portrayal of Mrs
Banks in
Mary Poppins which would make her a pop culture icon."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
