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. Elissa Landi has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 1615 Vine St. 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. She died from cancer in Kingston, New York. Able to undertake any role and with a career spanning seven decades, Glynis Johns is often cited as the "complete actress". She became a United States Citizen in 1943, and dedicted herself to writing, producing six novels and a series of poems. She also is a trained pianist and singer. After only two more films she retired, in 1943.

Glynis Johns is an accomplished dancer, and was actually qualified to teach ballet at the age of ten. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed her to a contract and after a couple of romantic dramas she played the cousin of Myrna Loy in the very popular After the Thin Man (1936). 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. Her contract with Fox was abruptly cancelled in 1936 as a result of her refusal to accept a particular role. She has also appeared on television and on stage, most memorably in Stephen Sondheim's musical, A Little Night Music. She was paired successfully with some of the major leading men, such as David Manners, Warner Baxter, and Ronald Colman in romantic dramas, before appearing in the box office hit The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) with Robert Donat. Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins. De Mille's The Sign of the Cross (1932), but was overshadowed by Claudette Colbert who played the flashier role of the temptress.

Another of her best known film roles was that of Mrs. She played the heroine in Cecil B. She successfully made the transition to Hollywood, appearing in The Court Jester (1956) as Danny Kaye's love interest. She was signed to a contact by 20th Century Fox in 1931. In 1944 she appeared opposite her father in Halfway House, and in 1948 starred as a mermaid in Miranda (film). During the 1920s she appeared in British, French, and German films before travelling to the United States to appear in a Broadway production of A Farewell to Arms. She made her film debut in 1938, in the movie version of Winifred Holtby's novel, South Riding. She would return to writing during lulls in her acting career.

Her mother, Alys Steele, was a concert pianist and her son, Gareth Forwood, is an actor. Her first ambition was to be a writer, and she wrote her first novel at the age of twenty. 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. Born Elizabeth Marie Christine Kühnelt in Venice, Italy, Landi was raised in Austria and educated in England. Glynis Johns (born October 5, 1923) is a British stage and film actress and dancer. Rumoured to be a descendant of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, she was noted for her aristocratic bearing. Elissa Landi (December 6, 1904 – October 21, 1948) was an Italian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s.