Glynis Johns dead: Tony-winning actress dies at 100

Actress Glynis Johns, known as Mrs. Banks in Mary Poppins, died Thursday at the age of 100.

Johns was living at an assisted living facility in Los Angeles, California, at the time of her death. She died of natural causes.

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“Today’s a sad day for Hollywood,” Johns’s manager Mitch Clem said. “She is the last of the last of old Hollywood.”

Johns had roles in the 1999 movie Superstar, While You Were Sleeping in 1995, and The Court Jester in 1955. However, she was also a Broadway actress, and she debuted Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns” from the musical A Little Night Music. She won her only Tony for the performance.

Sondheim wrote the song with Johns in mind, but it earned further fame when Frank Sinatra covered it in 1973, and the song subsequently went gold. Just two years later, Judy Collins would record her own cover, which remained on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs for 11 consecutive weeks. Olivia Newton-John and Barbara Streisand would also record their own versions.

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Throughout her career, Johns was nominated for an Academy Award and an Oscar for her movie performances.

Johns is survived by one grandson and three great-grandchildren.