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During a transatlantic career that lasted more than 60 years, she was also known for her role in the hit Disney film “Mary Poppins. “
By Anita Gates
Glynis Johns, the British actress who, in a transatlantic career that spanned more than 60 years, won a Tony Award for her role in “A Little Night Music,” lending a husky, emotionally rich voice to the show’s most memorable number, “Send In the Clowns,” who played an exuberant Edwardian suffragette in the old Disney film “Mary Poppins,” died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was a hundred years old.
His death, at an assisted living facility, was revealed through his manager, Mitch Clem.
Mrs. Johns was 49 and on the verge of divorce for the fourth time when Stephen Sondheim’s musical “A Little Night Music” opened at the Shubert Theatre in February 1973. The New York Times described her character, Desirée Armfeldt, as “a worldly character. ” tired actress and incredibly in love with Sweden at the turn of the century.
The critics enjoyed it. For Clive Barnes of The Times, “Glynis Johns, with her hazy voice and bright eyes, was sympathetic. “
For Walter Kerr, who also writes for The Times, she is “that cousin of bullfrogs and wives of weary gods”; She is “discreet, dangerous. . . and extraordinarily funny. “
When she won Best Actress in a Musical at the 1973 Tony Awards, Ms. Johns thanked “the entire cast” of the play for “giving me back the joy I had lost in the theater. “
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