“Mary Poppins” star Glynis Johns dies at age 100. A tumor weighing 32 kilograms was removed from the abdomen of a young woman

British actress Glynis Johns, known for the classic film ‘Mary Poppins’, died on Thursday at the age of 100 in a residential care center in Los Angeles, her longtime manager Mitch Clem told CNN and other media in the United States. US and Britain said.

“Today is a dark day for Hollywood. “We mourn not only our dear Glynis, but the last sparks of Hollywood’s golden age,” he wrote.

In the Oscar-winning Disney musical “Mary Poppins” (1964) with Julie Andrews, Johns starred as the energetic mother and women’s rights activist Winifred Banks.

She hires the nanny, played by Andrews, who ends up with the wealthy London family with her umbrella and uses a lot of imagination to turn the lives of the children Michael and Jane upside down. In the film, Johns sings the song “Sister Suffragette”.

Already on stage as a teenager

Johns was born in 1923 in what is now South Africa and came from a family of actors. She first appeared on stage in a ballet when she was only twelve years old. Her first film role was in ‘South Riding’ in 1938. In a career spanning more than 60 years, she appeared in dozens of films, television films and plays.

In 1960, she was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role in the family drama ‘The Sundowners’ opposite Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum. In 1973, she received a Tony Award for the role of Desiree Armfeldt in the Broadway play “A Little Night Music.” There she sang the classic “Send In the Clowns”.

On her 100th birthday, she came across rather quickly in an interview with the American broadcaster ABC 7. Age made no difference to her, she said at the time: “I looked very good at any age.” (sda/dpa)