Glynis Johns

Glynis Johns is regarded as one of the most beautiful women of all time and has been the subject of countless magazine covers and pin-up posters throughout her career. Landis died of cancer in Danbury, Connecticut. She has been married four times, including a marriage to Anthony Forwood, father of her son Gareth and the former manager to Sir Dirk Bogarde. Her autobiography, titled You Won't Be So Pretty (But You'll Know More) was published in 1954. Able to undertake any role and with a career spanning seven decades, Glynis Johns is often cited as the "complete actress". She married three times. She also is a trained pianist and singer. In real life she was 10 months younger than Grant.

Glynis Johns is an accomplished dancer, and was actually qualified to teach ballet at the age of ten. In North By Northwest she plays his mother and in To Catch a Thief she plays Grace Kelly's mother. The song, "Send in the Clowns", was written with her in mind, and in 1973 she won a Tony award for her role in the musical. She appears in both of these films with Cary Grant. She has also appeared on television and on stage, most memorably in Stephen Sondheim's musical, A Little Night Music. In the 1950s, she began appearing in movies as a character actress, most notably in North By Northwest and To Catch a Thief. Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins. Landis was a stage actress for much of her career.

Another of her best known film roles was that of Mrs. She was born Jessie Royce Medbury in Chicago, Illinois. She successfully made the transition to Hollywood, appearing in The Court Jester (1956) as Danny Kaye's love interest. Jessie Royce Landis (25 November 1904 - 2 February 1972) was an American actress. In 1944 she appeared opposite her father in Halfway House, and in 1948 starred as a mermaid in Miranda (film). She made her film debut in 1938, in the movie version of Winifred Holtby's novel, South Riding.

Her mother, Alys Steele, was a concert pianist and her son, Gareth Forwood, is an actor. She is the daughter of the actor, Mervyn Johns, and her roots are in west Wales, although she happened to be born in Pretoria, South Africa, while her parents were on tour there. Glynis Johns (born October 5, 1923) is a British stage and film actress and dancer.