{"id":539,"date":"2024-01-06T00:08:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T00:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2024-01-06T00:08:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T00:08:39","slug":"glynis-johns-tony-winning-star-who-played-mrs-banks-in-mary-poppins-dead-at-100-rest-in-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Glynis Johns, Tony-winning star who played Mrs. Banks in \u201cMary Poppins,\u201d dead at 100 \u2014\u00a0rest in peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"5c53f654ecb6b2e2c397431cfdb6dd0a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:99px 0 99px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M926082ScriptRootC1556461\"><\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/m\/a\/makamuki.com.1556461.js\" async><\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\n<\/div>\n<p>Glynis Johns, the Tony-winning actress remembered for playing Mrs. Banks in the classic film Mary Poppins, has died at 100.<\/p>\n<p>A versatile, husky-voiced star whose career spanned eight decades, Johns was one of the last surviving actors of Hollywood\u2019s Golden Age. Johns, who had recently celebrated her 100th birthday, died at an assisted living home in Los Angeles, reportedly of natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy heart is heavy today with the passing of my beloved client Glynis Johns,\u201d her manager Mitch Clem told The Guardian. \u201cGlynis powered her way through life with intelligence, wit and a love for performance, affecting millions of lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johns was born October 5, 1923 in Pretoria, South Africa, the daughter of Welsh actor Mervyn Johns. Raised in England, she began performing at a young age and had early success as a ballet prodigy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fLKFJUHQXi8?si=qPJAH7Eehufn23Rc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glynis Johns, the Tony-winning actress remembered for playing Mrs. Banks in the classic film Mary Poppins, has died at 100. A versatile, husky-voiced star whose career spanned eight decades, Johns was one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Untitled-2-810x530-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}