Mary Poppins says goodbye to Mrs Banks: Glynis Johns was 100 years old
The English actress died yesterday in Los Angeles.
She will forever be remembered as Jane and Michael’s suffragist mother. But the tide has turned and the legendary Mrs Banks of Mary Poppins left us. English actress Glynis Johns died on January 4 of natural causes in her retirement home in Los Angeles. She was 100 years old.
Born in South Africa, she was known as a multi-talented dancer, pianist and singer who became a film star in the late 1940s by appearing in various feature films, such as Miranda (1948) where a siren will give her voice, then Third Time Lucky (1949) as femme fatale Joan Burns and The Fantastic Journey (1951) opposite James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich.
Glynis Johns even received an Oscar nomination in 1960 for her portrayal of the hotel owner, Mrs. Firth, in Fred Zinnemann’s comedy-drama, Horizons without borders.
And in 1964, her incarnation of the feminist Winifred Banks earned her international fame.
Passed through the Theater on Broadway (she won a Tony Award for the musical A Little Night Music), we had last seen him at the cinema in He is taken who thought he was taking (in 1994) and in the rom’com’ by Sandra Bullock, Love at all costs (in 1995).
