Glynis Johns is dead to me!

So young.

She had a great glans but couldn’t live forever.

One of the world's last great voices has been stilled.

The first big name to go in 2024.

How did she die?

[quote] Finally, Clowns

Don’t bother. They’re here.

We adored her!

R5 she was fighting an oil rig fire.

So glad that she made it to 100 and that she was remembered for it.

This aging and death thing is for the birds.

Her first husband left her for...Dirk Bogarde. Really!

Gotta feed the birds, R10 -it's only tuppence a bag. :)

My favorite Glynis performance is still The Ref, where she plays the mother-in-law from Hell to perfection.

She portrayed Diane Chamber’s mother on an early episode of Cheers 🍻.

R13, I recall on Cheers after she lost her money she ended up agreeing to marry her chauffeur who admitted he had been embezzling from her family for years. She then told him she had always found the back of his neck very attractive.

R5, Meth overdose, Rose!!

[quote] Anthony Forwood, who rather famously left her for the man who would become his long-term partner, actor Dirk Bogarde.

MAAAARRRYYYYY!

Are you sure? I thought she was ground-fighting Hamas.

Lana Turner hated her. She said Glynis Johns was the “bitch of the world.” I’m not sure why Lana despised her. They were in film together in England.

Vaxxed? 100-year-olds don't just drop dead!

Always loved her subtler-that-Joan-Greenwood voice. Her portrayal of a stewardess in the Jimmy Stewart film "No Highway in the Sky" is a particular favorite. Any of you see the film "Miranda," wherein she played a mermaid?

I think she was at Belmont Village for over a decade so she definitely had money. I thought she looked pretty good at 100 in that interview.

She had a programme of her own on CBS but it only lasted 13 episodes.

R5 Her parachute didn’t deploy.

Glynis and Len Cariou recreate their "Send in the Clowns" scene.

[quote]She had a programme of her own on CBS but it only lasted 13 episodes.

"Glynis," created by "I Love Lucy" producer and head writer Jess Oppenheimer. Glynis's character was a Jessica Fletcher-type amateur sleuth. Her husband was played by Keith Andes, Lucy's co-star on Broadway in "Wildcat."

She was a rare singer.

Those queens in the audience at r24 LEAPT! to their feet.

r22 r25 and I must be the only ones who watched Glynis.

- r24

I didn't realize there was ever a shortage, R26

I not only remember watching "Glynis" as a kid, I remember that it premiered the same season as "Grindl," another short-lived sitcom, starring Imogene Coca.

I'm not sure it was the same season, but there was a third one-season comedy, Angel, starring Annie Fargé, an actress and Holocaust escapee from Belgium. I liked Angel, too, and off it went. (Grindl, too, r30.)

Send in the undertaker

Glynis in 1962s The Chapman Report

[quote] Glynis's character was a Jessica Fletcher-type amateur sleuth.

She later appeared on Murder She Wrote as well.

A brunette Glynis with Danny Kaye and Midred Natwick

Glynis on The Dick Cavett Show with George Cukor who directed her in The Chapman Report

[quote] She had a programme of her own on CBS but it only lasted 13 episodes.

Unfortunately it was scheduled directly opposite the first season of Star Trek.

Loved her voice. Not everybody can sound so innocent and wanton simultaneously.

I wonder what Cukor would have done with the Night Music movie.

Star Trek barely made it through it's first season. Johns' show simply couldn't attract an audience.

Oppenheimer didn't have much luck developing shows: Angie, Glynis and later the Debbie Reynolds Show---all failures.

After a career spanning eight decades, Johns died Thursday of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Hollywood, her manager, Mitch Clem, told the Hollywood Reporter.

The Chapman Report was awful--full of bad acting and bad casting. I mean Efrem Zimbalist Jr--no one wanted to pay for that.

Jean Simmons sung the role of Desiree in "A Little Night Music" better than any other actress - including Johns.

I wonder if Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke will be issuing statements?

Or Len Cariou.

Glynis Johns on Desert Island Discs.

Respighi playing Rossini, Gilbert and Sullivan, Sondheim, Edith Piaf, and Sibelius.

So posh!

Well you know what Susan Dey's gonna say.

R45, she has good taste!

She was Glynis Johns!

And somebody told me she just bought a farm.

She bought [italic]the[/italic] farm.

And the winner is ....

Our daughters' daughters will adore us

And they'll sing in grateful chorus

"Well done! Well done!

Well done Sister Suffragette!"

I just watched her in The Court Jester (1955) with Danny Kaye

R53 meet R35

holy shit! had no idea she was still around

I watched one of her bw movies on YouTube last year, she played a high diver who wanted to quit but couldn’t, something to do with her husband. I looked it up on IMDb and learned she was still alive. Great voice.

Oh no!

Glynis was in 1962s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari screenplay by Robert Bloch (Psycho) No relation to the silent film other than the title.

Dear Brigitte -Jimmie Stewart and Glynis Johns play an artistic couple who have a young son (Bill Mumy) who is a mathematical genius with no interest at all in fine arts. He does have a serious crush on French actress Brigitte Bardot, and a startling ability to handicap racehorses...

She was wonderful in the Court Jester - clever, beautiful and heroic, an inspiring character for little girls.

Her two Miranda the mermaid movies are worth tracking down. The first ("Miranda," 1948) is a low-key charmer in black and white; the sequel ("Mad about Men," 1954) is a frantic Technicolor farce. She's fun in both. RIP

Thank you, R61. I was thinking of watching Miranda in memoriam, and then your post saved me a search. The trio of stars has to be the longest-lived bunch ever from a 40s film: Glynis 100, Griffith Jones 96, and Googie Withers 94, plus wonderful Margaret Rutherford.

Glynis has some good scenes with Angela Lansbury in "The Court Jester".

She was a drunk.

I knew someone on the crew of THE CIRCLE who drew up her courage and told Stewart Granger he had to stop feuding with Johns, because “if she gets too upset you KNOW what will happen. Then we’ll have to deal with that!”

I don’t know what the issue between them was. possibly it went back decades.

r61 Didn't know there was a second "Miranda" movie, thanks for the heads-up.

Can I have her stuff?

She played Laura Fitzpatrick Morgan in Little Gloria: Happy At Last. I liked that mini series.

There’s a new version in the works about Anderson Cooper. It’s titled-

Little Homosexual: Happy At Last.

Sublime.

R62 Googie’s husband, John McCallum, was another long lived member of the “Miranda” cast

Thanks, R59, for the link to Dear Brigitte. It was the perfect movie for a jetlag couch day. Cheesy plot, but mid-60s Sausalito, Paris, Jimmy Stewart, BB, and Fabian are worth it.

Glynis Johns messes up Terry-Thomas's whole house!

(starts at 26:49)

As Lady Peasoup in Batman. Here they capture Robin

[quote]How did she die?

With a LOT of preparation, Rose.

Rumor is she had yet another back alley abortion right before Thanksgiving. This time, her body simply killed itself because it couldn’t take the thoughts of having to be just a cum dump to 27 Mexicans AND undergo a 41st abortion 9 months later…..

[quote]Star Trek barely made it through it's first season.

R39, I thought Star Trek got good ratings in its 1st season? And I think it's 2nd. It was the 3rd season when Star Trek was re-scheduled to a late-night slot and lost viewership and was then cancelled.

R71, love that movie!

[quote]R75: I thought Star Trek got good ratings in its 1st season?

There was a point, mid-season one, when it was in crisis. A letter-writing campaign was begun, urging NBC to keep Star Trek. The campaign was successful, and new episodes were ordered. But you're correct about the late night rescheduling of the third season, which, in addition to budget slashing, led to the cancellation of the series. Nichelle Nichols was of the opinion that the series was deliberately killed off. Somebody up top hated it.

R77 meet R35

Star Trek was trashed being moved form an 8:00 slot to 10:00 Friday opposite The CBS Friday Night Movie; Judd, for the Defense; and The Dick Cavett Show.

After bedtime for the little kids and when the older viewers were out on dates.

[quote][R77] meet [R35] —Pete Repete

R78, what are you on about? R35 has nothing to do with Star Trek.

She was also a voice in Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School!

Glynis! We love you! Get up!

I saw the original cast of Night Music with her. I was pretty young and fussy about going to this show. I wanted to see Purlie but my mom always bought the tickets. I ended up being mesmerized by the show.

I saw her in the original cast of “A Little Night Music,” twice. Everyone was fine, one of my favorite shows ever. Johns stood out as funny, worldly, endearing, and ultimately heartbreaking. She was truly magical.

Can that really have been over 50 years ago?