Obituary: Glynis Johns, Actress from ‘Mary Poppins’ and First to Perform Sondheim’s ‘Send in the Clowns,’ Passes Away at 100
Glynis Johns (center) in Mary Poppins in 1964. Courtesy Everett Collection Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, has died. She was 100. Mitch Clem, her manager, said she...