Glynis Johns

Glynis Johns

Nascimento : 1923-10-05, Pretoria, South Africa

História

Glynis Johns (born 5 October 1923) is a South African-born British retired actress, dancer, musician and singer. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, while her parents were on tour, she is best known for originating the role of Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award, and for playing Winifred Banks in Walt Disney's musical motion picture Mary Poppins. In 2020, with the death of Olivia de Havilland, Johns became the oldest living Academy Award-nominee in any acting category. In both roles, Johns sang songs written specifically for her, including "Send In the Clowns", composed by Stephen Sondheim, and "Sister Suffragette", written by the Sherman Brothers. Johns was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1960 film The Sundowners. She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood and class years of British cinema. She is known for the breathy quality of her husky voice and her upbeat persona. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glynis Johns, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Glynis Johns
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Glynis Johns

Filmes

Six by Sondheim
Self (archive footage)
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: The Making of 'Mary Poppins'
Using archival, never-before-released footage and newly shot interviews, this is a definitive behind-the-scenes look at Walt Disney's moviemaking magic and the creation of this classic film.
Superstar: Despenca uma Estrela
Grandma
Mary Katherine Gallagher (Molly Shannon) é uma adolescente hiperativa, que estuda numa escola católica e tem como maior sonho beijar Sky (Will Ferrell), o garoto mais charmoso da escola. O problema é que ele tem uma namorada, a belíssima Evian (Elaine Hendrix). Mas para conseguir realizar seu sonho, Mary Katherine tem um plano: tornar-se uma estrela de Hollywood, pois todos querem beijar uma grande estrela. E o primeiro passo é vencer o concurso de talentos promovido em sua escola, que irá dar como prêmio uma ponta em um filme católico politicamente correto.
Enquanto Você Dormia
Elsie
Uma solitária funcionária do metrô de Chicago tem fantasias sobre um passageiro habitual que nunca falou com ela. Um dia ele é assaltado e jogado nos trilhos do metrô. Ela o salva, mas ele fica em coma e quando ela vai visitá-lo no hospital acaba sendo confundida como a noiva da vítima. Se a situação se complica por um lado por outro ela passa a ter novamente uma família para cuidar dela, algo que não sentia há muito tempo, e ao mesmo tempo começa a se apaixonar pelo irmão da vítima.
O Jardim Secreto
Darjeeling (voice)
A orfã Mary Lennox vai morar com seu tio, Lorde Craven, na Inglaterra; A mansão é administrada pela Sra. Medlock, uma rigorosa e fria governanta. Lorde Craven perdeu a mulher há dez anos e nunca mais conseguiu superar a tragédia. Para piorar Colin Craven, seu filho, também sofre de extrema apatia, sempre recolhido no seu quarto. Mais uma vez negligenciada, Mary passa a explorar a propriedade e descobre um jardim abandonado. Entusiasmada com a descoberta, Mary decide restaurar o lugar com a ajuda do filho de um dos serviçais da casa, conquistando assim a atenção do primo doente. Juntos eles desafiam as regras da casa e o velho jardim se transforma em um lugar mágico, cheio de flores, surpresas e alegria. O jardim secreto é um lugar fantástico onde não existe tristeza e arrependimento, um lugar onde a força da amizade pode trazer de volta a beleza da vida.
The Ref
Rose Chasseur
Caroline and Lloyd are a married couple constantly at each other's throats, masters at crafting acid-tongued barbs at the other's expense. Indeed, they are so obsessed with belittling each other that they never stop -- not even at gunpoint. The gunman is Gus, a thief on the run from the police, who kidnaps the couple as an insurance policy, planning to use their home as a hideout. But their incessant bickering proves more than Gus bargained for, forcing him -- for the sake of his own sanity -- into the unenviable role of peacemaker. To make things even worse for Gus, he discovers that he has taken the couple hostage the night of their big Christmas party, and the guests are already on the way. Not wanting to leave Lloyd and Caroline unattended, Gus opts to attend the party, pretending to be the couple's marriage counselor. This naturally leads to a series of comic confusions, as the hostage crisis and marital tensions head towards their inevitable conclusion.
Nukie
Sister Anne
Two alien brothers crash their ship in the U.S. They get separated, and one searches the country for the other one.
Scooby-Doo e a Escola Assombrada
Ms. Grimwood (voice)
Salsicha consegue um emprego como professor de educação física numa escola de criaturas sobrenaturais chamada Escola Grimwood, e se torna responsável pela segurança das alunas Sibelle, filha do Conde Drácula, Winnie, filha de um lobisomem, Elza, filha do Frankenstein, Tannis, filha de uma múmia e Phantasma, filha de um fantasma. Os terríveis monstros avisam a Salsicha e Scooby-Doo de que estes pagariam caro se algo de ruim acontecesse às suas filhas. Os problemas começam quando uma terrível bruxa chamada Revolta, com a ajuda de seu monstro-ajudante Creeeper, sequestra as meninas para revoltalizá-las e conquistar o mundo. Então Salsicha, Scooby-Doo e Scooby-Loo tem como missão resgatá-las e assim acabar com o plano de Revolta. Os heróis também contam com a ajuda dos garotos-cadetes da Escola Calloway, uma escola rival da Escola Grimwood.
Zelly e Eu
Co-Co
Uma jovem órfã que vive com sua avó numa imensa casa Virginiana vive rodeada pela voz de Joana d'Arc. Sua babá busca a ajuda de um rico senhor (interpretado por David Lynch, em seu primeiro papel num filme) para levá-la para longe com a órfã quando percebe que sua quase sempre cruel avó não pode oferecer à menina o amor do qual tanta necessita. É quando somos levados para um final surpreendente.
Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe
Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman he had met. But his catholic background and surrounding can't let him love another woman or divorce from his wife. So Ovide finishes with Marie and plans a trip with Rita hoping for reconciliation. At the last instant he announces to Rita that he can't make the trip. She goes alone. The plane explodes, and Ovide is suspected and arrested for this horrible crime.
Spraggue
Aunt Mary
In this failed TV pilot, Boston professor and amateur detective, Michael Spraggue, together with his eccentric aunt investigates a suspicious physician in connection with the death of his acquaintance which endangers their lives.
Three Dangerous Ladies
Mrs. Amworth
Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments. Each story features a woman who willingly or unwillingly spreads evil.
Mrs. Amworth
Mrs. Amworth
A vampire terrorizes a quiet English town.
The Happy Prince
Swallow (voice)
A royal statue makes friends with a small swallow.
A Cripta dos Sonhos
Eleanor Critchit (segment 2 "The Neat Job")
Uma antologia de cinco histórias de horror compartilhadas por cinco homens presos no porão de um prédio de escritórios.
Sob o Bosque de Leite
Myfanwy Price
The delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" in which we meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the 'eyes' of Blind Captain Cat.
Lock Up Your Daughters
Mrs Squeezum
Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
Don't Just Stand There
Sabine Manning
In exchange for helping writer-adventurer Lawrence Colby smuggle 300 watch parts into Paris from Switzerland, Martine Randall asks Colby to help solve a complicated situation involving her friend Sabine Manning, a well-known author of sex novels.
Minha Querida Brigitte
Vina Leaf
Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own.
Mary Poppins
Mrs. Winnifred Banks
Na Londres de 1910, o banqueiro Mr. Banks, um homem frio que trata com rigidez Jane e Michael, seus filhos sapecas, não consegue contratar uma babá, pois elas desistem facilmente do emprego. Em uma noite, enquanto redige com sua esposa um anúncio de jornal procurando uma babá, sua filha Jane aparece com uma carta mostrando como seria uma babá perfeita. Esta carta acaba chegando nas mãos de Mary Poppins, que é tudo aquilo que está descrito na carta. Mary Poppins possui poderes mágicos e, com seu amigo faz-tudo Bert, transforma a vida daquela família, com muita música, magia e diversão.
O Estado Interessante de Papai
Amberlyn Griffith
A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and oldest daughter. His younger daughter, however, still remains unflinchingly loyal to him, and they share many fun misadventures over the course of the movie.
The Chapman Report
Teresa Harnish
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
The Cabinet of Caligari
Jane Lindstrom
A delirious young woman feels trapped in a remote mansion at the mercy of a madman.
Peregrino da Esperança
Mrs. Firth
No Outback Australiano, a família Carmody - Paddy, Ida e seu filho adolescente Sean - levam uma vida nômade, são tropeiros de ovelhas, sempre em movimento. Ida e Sean querem sossegar e comprar uma fazenda. Mas Paddy quer se manter em movimento. Um concurso de tosquia de ovelhas, o nascimento de uma criança, bebidas, jogos e um cavalo de corrida terão um papel na decisão final.
The Spider's Web
Clarissa Hailsham-Brown
Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie story.
De Mãos Dadas com o Diabo
Kitty Brady
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
Vítima de uma Paixão
Kay Trevor
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without any intention of revealing her relationship with him.
All Mine to Give
Jo Eunson
This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become welcome citizens of their new town, Eureka. They have six children. They prosper in the husband's boat-building business. But when their eldest is 12, tragedy strikes the family, and the 12-year-old is burdened with a terrible task which he handles as well as any adult could.
A Volta ao Mundo em Oitenta Dias
Sporting Lady's Companion
Em 1872, o nobre inglês Phileas Fogg (David Niven) aposta vinte mil libras com seus colegas do Clube Reformatório de Londres de que ele consegue dar a volta no planeta em exatamente oitenta dias. Ao lado do engenhoso Valet Passepartout (Mario Moreno), ele busca cumprir o seu objetivo com aventuras em todos os continentes, acaba conhecendo e se encantando pela bela viúva Aouda (Shirley MacLaine), ao mesmo tempo que, em uma conspiração, é acusado de ter roubado o dinheiro que investiu na aposta.
Loser Takes All
Cary
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
O Bobo da Corte
Maid Jean
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
Josephine and Men
Josephine Luton
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
Mad About Men
Caroline Trewella / Miranda Trewella
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
The Beachcomber
Martha Jones
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
The Seekers
Marion Southey
A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
Rob Roy, O Grande Rebelde
Helen Mary MacPherson MacGregor
Após a derrota dos clãs de 1715, um dos líderes serranos, Rob Roy MacGregor escapa, vive diversas aventuras, casa-se, e eventualmente se torna transtorno o bastante para que George I seja declarado fugitivo e caçado pelos ingleses.
Pecadoras Inocentes
Jean Raymond
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
Tormento da Suspeita
Barbara Vining
A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
Entre a Espada e a Rosa
Princess Mary Tudor
Conta a história de Mary Tudor e sua problemática jornada até o amor verdadeiro. Henry VIII, por razões políticas, determina que ela case com o Rei da França. Ela tenta escapar para a América com seu amor mas é capturada quando sua identidade é revelada numa embarcação de navio. Em troca de seu consentimento quanto ao casamento com o rei, Henry concorda em deixar que ela escolha um segundo marido. Quando o Rei Louis da França morre, Mary é sequestrada pelo duque de Buckingham, que tenta forçá-la ao casamento.
Às Voltas com 3 Mulheres
Ruth Earp
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...
A Caixa Mágica
May Jones
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Appointment with Venus
Nicola Fallaize
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
Na Estrada do Céu
Marjorie Corder
Um engenheiro aeronáutico prevê que um novo modelo de avião falhará catastroficamente e de uma maneira inédita após um número específico de horas de voo. James Stewart interpreta o engenheiro aeronáutico Theodore Honey, o protótipo de um professor: distraído, excêntrico, esquecido, mas brilhante. Seus estudos mostram que a aeronave que está sendo fabricada por seu empregador tem uma falha de design sutil, mas mortal, que se manifesta apenas após a aeronave ter voado um determinado número de horas. A caminho de um local de acidente para provar sua teoria, Honey descobre que está a bordo de um avião que se aproxima rapidamente do prazo mortal previsto.
Encore
Stella Cotman
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.
Flesh and Blood
Katherine Manley
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
Segredo de Estado
Lisa Robinson
Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit by the secret police of Vosnia since it is vital to Vosnia that the dictator's death does not become known. Fleeing, he seeks help from an actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two are harried across the countryside.
Dear Mr. Prohack
Mimi Warburton
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
Helter Skelter
Miranda Trewella
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Third Time Lucky
Joan Burns
A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl as well.
Miranda
Miranda Trewella
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.
Um Marido Ideal
Mabel Chiltern
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.
Frieda
Judy Dawson
A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.
This Man Is Mine
Millie
One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
Longe dos Olhos
Dizzy Clayton
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
The Halfway House
Gwyneth
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
As Aventuras de Tartu
Paula Palacek
British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.
Invasão de Bárbaros
Anna
Uma tripulação de U-boat da Segunda Guerra Mundial está encalhada no norte do Canadá. Para evitar o aprisionamento, eles devem ir até a fronteira e entrar nos EUA que ainda estão neutros.
O Ladrão de Bagdá
Princess's maid (uncredited)
Menino ladrão das ruas de Bagdá ajuda jovem sultão deposto do trono por feiticeiro a recuperar o poder. Para isso conta com a ajuda de um gênio mágico que lhe concede três desejos.
The Briggs Family
Sheila Briggs
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
Under Your Hat
Winnie
In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.
On the Night of the Fire
Mary
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
Prison Without Bars
Nina
Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.
South Riding
Midge Carne
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Murder in the Family
Marjorie Osborne
After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.