Posted on 01/04/2024 8:30:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Glynis Johns was an accomplished stage actress as well. Sondheim penned the bittersweet song "Send in the Clowns" especially for Johns, who sang it in the original Broadway production of "A Little Night Music."
She was nominated for an Academy Award as best supporting actress for her role as a hotel keeper in the Australian-set adventure "The Sundowners" alongside Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr and Peter Ustinov.
I thought she was super-attractive. I loved her voice when I saw her in Mary Poppins, at age 9.
RIP Glynis Johns.
The age of musicals. I recall my dad took all of us to this movie as well as Music Man, and Sound of Music. Loved all three.
Her father played Bob Cratchet in the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol. The Alistair Sims version.
Oh wow ! That’s the definitive, best version.
Do you like to kick kittens, too?
No kicking allowed...I throw them waaaaay up in the air 9 times.
I was most fortunate and got to see Camelot in NYC in 1962 with Richard Burton and also the Sound of Music a few days later...but there was no comparison.
There you go.
Got to see Richard Harris in Camelot also...such awesome talent.
Lady Penelope Peasoup, R.I.P.
Was that with Julie Andrews?
After seeing Camelot...they simply weren't comparable.
Yes, Glynis appeared with Julie Andrews in “Mary Poppins”.
All these posts and no one mentions her show back in the day, but I found it ... Glynis, on CBS, 1963. I was 10 but I remember her husky voice and alluring demeanor. Rest easy pretty girl.
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she was in a movie called “ALL OURS TO GIVE”....sad damn movie...
100, wow. Almost as old as Madonna.
She was super in “The Sundowners”, an excellent film with R. Mithum and Deborah Kerr
That man, Richard Burton could read from a phone book and it would sound like Shakespeare.
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