I posted this is October 2023 for her 100th Birthday. Today (January 4, 2024) she has passed away.
Glynis Johns turns 100 years old
today!
(Johns in 1952)
A Retired Actress, Dancer,
Musician and Singer she was born on October 5, 1923 in Pretoria, Union of South
Africa (Present-Day South Africa) while her Parents were on Tour there (her
Mother, Elizabeth Steele-Payne, was one of the first Accomplished Female
Violinists of her time and her Father, Mervyn Johns, was a famous Actor.) The Family went back to the United Kingdom a
few months after she was born.
John is best known for playing
Winifred Banks (the Banks Mother) and singing the song: “Sister Suffragette” in
Disney’s 1964 Movie “Mary Poppins.”
Johns made her first public
performance at 3 weeks old in 1923 and continued until her retirement in 1999.
(Johns in 1964’s “Mary Poppins.”)
With the death of Olivia de
Havilland in 2020, Johns became the Oldest Living Academy Award Nominee in any
Acting Category and in 2021, with the death of Betty White, she became the
Oldest Living Disney Legend.
Johns is predeceased by all four
of her Husbands. The first to die was her third Husband, Cecil Henderson, in
1978, followed by her fourth Husband, Elliott Arnold, in 1980, her first
Husband, Anthony Forwood, in 1988, and her second Husband, David Foster, in
2010. She is also predeceased by her Son, Gareth Forwood, who died in 2007 from
Cancer and a Heart Attack at 62 years old.
Glynis Johns currently resides at
the Belmont Village Hollywood Heights, a Senior Living Community, located near
the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California.
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