Glynis Johns, known for her role as Mrs. Winifred Banks in the film classic "Mary Poppins," has died ... than 30 plays during her career on the stage. In 1989, Johns starred in the Broadway ...

Glynis Johns, a British performer best known to audiences for playing Mrs. Winifred Banks in Disney’s Mary Poppins ... even reportedly making her stage debut at just three weeks old.

Glynis Johns, the British actress best known for her role as Mrs. Winifred Banks in "Mary Poppins," has died of ... In an eight-decade career spanning the stage and screen, Johns was also the ...

Best known as the exuberant suffragist mom Mrs. Banks in "Mary Poppins," she brought wit and charm to stage and film characters for more than six decades. Critic Bob Mondello offers an appreciation.

To that end, Mrs. Banks was rewritten as a suffragette whose commitment to the push to grant women the right to vote left her children in need of a nanny like Mary Poppins, and Johns got her own ...

They made Mrs. Banks a suffragette ... who would later portray Mr. Banks in “Mary Poppins.” Johns had a long stage career that saw her make her London debut in 1935. Eight years later she ...

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 ...

Walt Disney himself loved Johns’ sparkling onscreen persona and recruited her to play Mrs. Banks, who needs a nanny (Julie Andrews) to take care of her two children, in Mary Poppins (1964).