Trivia

Stephen Sondheim wrote "Send in the Clowns", in "A Little Night Music", with shorter phrasing to accommodate her. Although her voice, alternately described as smoky or silvery or wistful, was lovely, she was unable to sustain notes for long.

She was named a Disney Legend in 1998.

Married and divorced four times, her first husband Anthony Forwood is the father of her only child, Gareth Forwood; her second husband, David Ramsey Foster, was a World War II hero who became the chairman of Colgate Palmolive International; marriage to third husband, Cecil Peter L. Henderson, ended after a year; and fourth husband Elliot Arnold, a writer and essayist, penned "A Night of Watching", "Camp Grant Massacre" and "Personal Combat".

Anthony Forwood, Glynis's first ex-husband, was Sir Dirk Bogarde's longtime partner and manager until Forwood's death in 1988.

Won a Tony Award (Best Actress in a Musical) for her role in the musical "A Little Night Music" (1973).

Appears on the cover of the album "Led Zeppelin II" by Led Zeppelin.

Following the death of Olivia de Havilland in 2020, she became the oldest surviving actor to have received an Oscar nomination.

Best known for her role as Mrs. Winifred Banks, the children's mother in the Disney musical Mary Poppins (1964).

Daughter of actor Mervyn Johns, with whom she appeared in The Halfway House (1944) and The Sundowners (1960).

After over decade away from making public appearances, she gave a very rare interview to Channel 7 Eyewitness News (1969) to mark her 100th birthday in 2023.

Aged five, she joined the London Ballet School; by six, she was hailed in Britain as a dancing wonder; by ten, she was working as a Ballet instructor; and by eleven, she had earned a degree to teach.

Appeared in the television series episode, Sing a Song of Murder (1985) of "Murder, She Wrote" She previously appeared with series star Angela Lansbury in the classic comedy The Court Jester (1955).

Was in four Oscar Best Picture nominees: The 49th Parallel (1941), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Sundowners (1960) and Mary Poppins (1964). Only Around the World in 80 Days won.

Following the death of Zsa Zsa Gabor in 2016, she became the oldest surviving Batman (1966) "guest villain" cast member.

Stepdaughter of actress Diana Churchill.

Mother of actor Gareth Forwood.

Her mother, Alice Maude Steel Wareham (1901-1970), was an Australian concert pianist who performed under the name Alys Steel-Payne. Another source spells it Alyce Steele.

Suffered from stage fright throughout most of her career.

Was predeceased by all four of her husbands.

Johns's voice has been described by a press agent as "like the sound of a brook burbling over a pebbled bed.".

In 2021, with the death of Betty White, she became the oldest living Disney Legend.

With her death in 2024 Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, and Karen Dotrice are the 3 last surviving cast members of Mary Poppins (1964).

Attended South Hampstead High School in London, where she was a contemporary of Dame Angela Lansbury.

Her parents met while studying in London, he at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and she at the Royal Academy of Music.

Johns made her theatrical debut in October 1923 at just three weeks old, carried onto the London stage by her grandmother, Elizabeth Steele-Payne, a violinist-impresario.

She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Court Jester (1955) & Mary Poppins (1964).