Actress Glynis Johns from "Mary Poppins" turns 100

Actress Glynis Johns, who turns 100 this week, appeared in the films "Mary Poppins," "While You Were Sleeping" and TV's "Batman" and "Cheers." abc7.com/glyni...

[@Itsme-jl9rv]

“I look very good for every age!!” Amen.

[@johnbatch9276]

Even the ice age

[@Jpanman]

OMG I'm so happy she made it to 100! She is truly a treasure! God bless you Glynis Johns!

[@CaseyMajor]

Well she died right after so

[@currykingwurst6393]

@@CaseyMajor Wouldn't call 3 months "right after" but yeah...

[@CaseyMajor]

@currykingwurst6393 well it wasn't 101 so..

[@Jpanman]

@@CaseyMajor You're just mad because I got a lot of likes on my original post. C-n-.t muffin

[@Joshy.Want.Wingyy]

​@@CaseyMajorjudging by your name and friendless attitude, i just know you are probably sitting on a dirty ass couch with no girlfriend, soooo

[@a.allmendinger5579]

Bless this reporter for his patience and allowing her to lead in the interview. What a beautiful story!!! Thank you for sharing! Just lovely!

[@SJHFoto]

You saying that makes me think about myself. My parents are 90, and sometimes I don't let them finish their sentences. I really need to work on patience and show them more love

[@piustwelfth]

@@SJHFoto Yes, you have to treasure the remaining time with your parents. I miss mine every day.

[@gerrynicol3951]

Gylnis john who pased away today 4 1 24

[@d-o-j6513]

Patience? Bless him? It’s his job to be competent and professional. I thought he was patronising and belittling. Glynis johns might have been and looked old but it is no reason to treat and portray her as mentally delinquent.

[@liana_jae_media9905]

Wow at 100 her memory is still strong to remember her career, amazing women 🙌🏼

[@davidbanner9851]

She was still witty at 100😁. I love that.

[@Trainman16]

Glynis Johns really did it! She is 100 and strong at heart. God bless her!

[@footystar1GamingOfficial]

Unfortunately, she's just passed. What a life she lived.

[@jadapinkett1656]

That usually happens after these reports.

[@graceharrison1991]

So sad

[@erindurkin4441]

Happy 100th Birthday, Glynis! Votes for women!

[@LauRa-re9un]

That was great! she was a feminist in the harder days for women!

[@Attmay]

Define “woman.“

[@garybrown5141]

She looks remarkable for 100.

[@SuperDrewFranklinFranchise]

R.I.P. Glynis Johns.

[@kiviuq3495]

Thanks abc7 for celebrating Glynis John's centenary. It's more than the BBC has done.

[@Garsons-oq4lh]

Or Turner Classic Movies

[@johnbatch9276]

I did see a little piece of her being interviewed in i think a care home she was funny and witty

[@joycecattanach4002]

You are so right, the BBC is only interested in itself now.

[@tommoncrieff1154]

BBC has gone down the drain.

[@habsom1406]

@@tommoncrieff1154 ....and flushed into the sea!

[@apowerfulflower]

RIP Glynis Johns, I will always remember you being in Mary Poppins.

[@mirandawyatt77]

After we lost Zsa Zsa Gabor, June Foray, Betty White, Larry Storch, and Bob Barker all at 99 within the past decade, I’m so glad to see someone finally reach 100! Happy 100th birthday, Glynis Johns! 🎉 Mrs. Banks has always been my favorite Mary Poppins character and I loved Lady Penelope Peasoup on Batman as well.

[@DaveFisher-cq2dr]

Gloria Stuart from Titanic also made it to 100

[@janinemelnitzcutie9936]

im hoping for jimmy carter

[@DaveFisher-cq2dr]

@@janinemelnitzcutie9936 yeah him too

[@MediaLover194]

Olivia de Havilland was 104

[@DaveFisher-cq2dr]

@@MediaLover194 that's right, and Rose Kennedy also lived to 104 too

[@speed_boy2468]

100 Years old! God Bless her. Happy Birthday Glynis ❤

[@lillydee5978]

How wonderful to make it to 100. She lived through the greatest of times.

[@broadsword8391]

Still looked good at 100 Rest now Glynis 💚

[@bracita15]

I live in Los Angeles. In 2011 or 2012, I went with my boyfriend to see a coworker/friend who was in a convalescent home because he was recovering from a stroke. We spent some time in his room but then I got curious to walk around the place. I came to a room where there was a long table where patients were doing arts and crafts. I sat down and joined the bunch. I remember seeing this lady seated at the end of the table. She looked “familiar.” I kept looking at her not trying to stare. It was driving me crazy that I knew her but didn’t know from where. I heard her speak and recognized her voice. I kept hoping that someone would say her name but it wasn’t happening. I’d just gotten my first Smart Phone so I went on IMDB. I think I looked up While You Were Sleeping. Yup. That was Glynis Johns across the table from me. I had to suppress a gasp when I realized that she was in Mary Poppins! I regret that I didn’t take a picture but I wanted to respect her privacy. ❤ Edit: I just read that she passed away today at the age of 100. She was living in an Assisted Living facility. Rest in Peace 🙏🏻💐

[@jakeornot6306]

Good that you respected her privacy. To have done otherwise would have been heinous. I hope you greeted her.

[@bracita15]

@@jakeornot6306 I didn’t. I didn’t want to bother her.

[@e-spy]

@@bracita15 seeing this interview, I think she would have loved the attention.

[@bracita15]

@@e-spy 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@JavierValverde-dw7cy]

​@@jakeornot6306No your opinion is not right because the woman lost the opportunity to meet Glynis Johns and now she can never meet her because she just died at age 100 and 3 months

[@bobbymaesteg]

Remarkable woman - one of Britain's oldest film stars ever. Congratulations Glynis. xx

[@kiviuq3495]

Olivia de Havilland made it to 104.

[@davlaur]

Estelle Winwood was 104

[@Garsons-oq4lh]

​@@davlaur101

[@alancaron984]

I think Elizabeth Sellars is still alive?

[@johnbatch9276]

And she's still got her marbles

[@misapal1]

Rest in peace, Miss Johns. Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent with the world.

[@graceharrison1991]

Amazing and beautiful actress and amazing she made it to 100. So sad she passed away at the beginning of January 2024 😢. RIP Glynis Jones

[@kathrynludrick4821]

I love Glynis Johns. Her voice. And her sweet disposition that came across on screen.

[@captainrandomvideoclips8065]

Happy 100th birthday, Glynis Johns! You have played a wonderful role of Mrs. Banks the “Sister Suffragette” herself.

[@Attmay]

That song was misandrist trash written by h3t men projecting their own sexism onto women. The Sherman Brothers have written some wonderful songs, but not a single solitary one of them was in that terrible movie.

[@bostonblackie9503]

Loved her in everything! She went to school with Angela Lansbury. They appeared together in the 'The Court Jester,' and 'Murder She Wrote.' Angela went on to play the elder of the two roles Glynis played in 'A Little Night Music.' Now they are together again, RIP lovely ladies!

[@MsBerann]

That's incredible! So, the Walt Disney animation Studios isn't the only thing turning 100 this year. Bless her, this is so lovely!💛💛💛

[@edwardpark8293]

Happy birthday 🎁🎉🎂🎈🎊 Glynis Johns!!! 100 💯 years old. Wow 😯 way to go lady.

[@jimj1525]

She’s wonderful. I’m glad she’s still with us; it’s a testament to her fullness of pep and vivacity

[@IndieGirl10100]

Thank you for interviewing her before she leaves us. She is wonderful!

[@fayecox9401]

Happy belated 100th birthday Glynis your a real treasure god bless you ❤🙏

[@philipc7599]

HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY, GLYNIS!!!!!!🥳🙌🎂🍰🎈🎉🎁🕯️ You're the longest living Disney legend of all time. In 2 weeks, the Walt Disney Company will celebrate its centennial, aka, the 100th anniversary! I'm so excited and I can't wait to celebrate!

[@Bledlink548]

Very good commentary ! Our english teacher show us your commentary in France !!

[@VarietyD]

✝️ Rest In Paradise "Mrs Banks" AKA Actress 🎭 Glynis Johns 🌟 Now the Legendary Centurion is now an Angel 😇🕊🕊🕊

[@sa4540]

RIP. You left a mark on my childhood with Mary Poppins 😢

[@AidenPlayzRBLX]

happy birthday to Glynis! 🥳 now she's officially 100 years old!

[@Nightman221k]

I love her and her voice! She seems so fun and feisty at 100, she was so stunning in her youth. I especially love her in The Court Jester.

[@kenknight9873]

Wow, 100 years, and she seemed like she was still alert! Even witty! lol she “looked good for every age!” And she did! Sad that she has passed, but she made her last appearance, thanks to that reporter! Thank you for “reminding” her how wonderful she was!

[@EvilSpoofAuthor]

Happy 100th birthday. You will always be a legend. ❤

[@rachael943]

She's so adorable

[@johnbatch9276]

Yes Rachael it's just age its a bloody nuisance trust me i know

[@heathr1424]

God bless her. RIP 😢

[@Brownsocksflirt]

She’s absolutely precious

[@arbonneladyTN]

May she rest in the Lords peace! Such a lovely lady. So much joy given to us all with talented acting.

[@averybranson121]

A True Legend, congrats to a century of making smiles

[@1cultural]

RIP Glynnis John's 1923-2024

[@paulconiglio3367]

Happy birthday Glynis, you absolute treasure!!! Happy 100!

[@redspice55]

Bless her heart! 100 is, quite the achievement. Loved her in Mary Poppins and While You Were Sleeping. Happy Belated Birthday ❤️🎈❤️

[@palestinabaddie]

live forever soon

[@thegreaterbilby2171]

We were so happy to see that Glynis enjoyed her 100th birthday. I loved her acting. She is fascinating!

[@Kandiibow]

She’s still so beautiful and I wish her a long(er) life 💕

[@PINCHER001]

What now

[@RichardSkipperCelebrates]

Thank you for this interview! God bless her!

[@seeyouinawhile]

Wow, I didn't realize she was the endearing grandmother in While You Were Sleeping! What a splendid life and career. Thank you for the great performances you've brought us. May you rest in peace, Glynis!

[@Arwar555]

Oh bless her. Beautiful woman. May she live for another century

[@RossiterMeets]

Nice. Happy 100th Birthday to her! Happy Birthday to her! Nice. Happy Birthday to her! Amazing that she’s still alive and still going strong at 100 years old! 😀.

[@dominiquew.8181]

Still has her good sense of humour. Seemed like a wonderful lady.

[@fay-amieaspen6046]

RIP Beautiful Lady.

[@BroadwayBabyyy744]

One of my favorites. She also did a memorable turn on Murder, she wrote. Bless this lady so much. Glad shes still here.

[@Attmay]

She and Angela Lansbury were both in *The Court Jester* in 1956. Then, five years later, she made a movie at Warner Brothers with Shelley Winters. I can’t remember the title of it, but I came across the soundtrack album in a used record store some time ago.

[@BroadwayBabyyy744]

Amazing@@Attmay

[@hallson2917]

Rest in Peace Glynis Johns We will always remember you!

[@fanousek96]

Oh wow.. my heart is blessed of seeing her 🙏🏻 I wish her all the best and for her next years ❤️❤️ God bless her 🤍

[@angelcastaneda529]

On the 60th anniversary of Mary Poppins no less, RIP you screen legend.

[@johnbatch9276]

Wow what a milestone to reach happy birthday Glynis 100 today

[@dariaramirez384]

HAPPY 100 bday ms. Glynis , GOD BLESS YOU 👏👏👏👏😘😘😘🥰

[@nickcasenta5651]

God Bless Glynis Johns. She's fantastic. 100 yrs old. I liked her. Lovely lady young and old. Iconic voice and face. Just the best talent left . God Bless you Ms. Johns 🙏 ♥

[@ryanbrailey-tucker4935]

❤ Ah god bless her...she should be remembered for so much more than Mary Poppins...so many many treasured roles ❤❤

[@Attmay]

I would just as soon forget that wretched movie and its similarly wretched source material when the rest of her career shows she had more range than just that obnoxious misandrist song.

[@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

Ms. Johns was a supreme talent in every way. Whatever "IT" was, the spark was undeniable, and it was hers. Stephen Sondheim wrote the song 'Send In The Clowns' FOR HER. Congratulations, Ma'am.

[@derekhart3308]

Congratulations on reaching 100 young Glynis 🎉🎂🎂🍾🍾🍾🥂🥂🥂🎬📽🎼🎵🎶👏👏👏

[@anthchac]

I’m SO HAPPY that you- ABC7 LA George Pennacchio- made a visit! When I saw your report’s link, I thought it would be a montage with a current photo. But you met and talked!! Happy Birthday indeed! 😀

[@simondemirjian1075]

RIP Legend 🙏🏻❤️

[@yettsoman4364]

Just rewatched "The Court Jester". She made it sound so simple..."The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace hold's the brew that is true!"😂

[@dominicpaul8539]

RIP Angel 👼

[@MrMittens1974]

RIP Glynis. Sleep well.

[@rickster100100]

In Mary Poppins, she has such a memorable role. Thank you for those wonderful childhood memories. I hope she’s having a wonderful journey. 💐✨❤️

[@blablablablablablamubsusk6982]

Passed away moments ago today January 4 2024 !!!!! Facebook just informed....

[@RobertTannenberg]

Happy birthday Glynis. Just watched you in Dear Bridgitte. Your a wonderful lady. Good health and all the best to you!

[@robertell3965]

Awe. So great he took the time to do this. A beautiful interview at 100. I’m very moved by her passing. The film Mary poppins was very meaningful to me. I’m sad she’s left us now.

[@greenchoanselmo3294]

God Bless you Miss Glynis Johns, truly a remarkable career and life, be with us for ever, we love you

[@jochenstossberg5427]

She was delicious, and the voice couldn't be anyone else. When Dirk Bogarde ran off with her husband, she seemed quite happy about it and everyone remained friends. 'Frankly,' she apparently said, 'I was relived to be rid of him.' She became famous because of 'Mary Poppins' but she was much better in other films. Happy birthday, lovely lady, you stole 'The Sundowners'!! And she was very good in 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.' Camp classic Check it out!

[@johnbatch9276]

You mention the film the sundowners it had a great cast as well as Glynis Mitchum Ustinov Deborah kerr it used to be a regular on TV not seen it in ages a fred zinneman production the old ones are the best

[@Attmay]

Yet another reason *Bedknobs and Broomsticks* is a better film: Roddy McDowall. I’d rather support my fellow Gay men than the women who tried to marry them. The 25 years since he died have been the worst in Hollywood history. Hell, *Pete’s Dragon* and *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang* were also better. So were Glynis’s other Disney roles. But boomers gonna boom, so they make this stupid offensive bullshit the central focus of a career that deserves better.

[@katelynwarren9327]

Wow!!!! happy 100th birthday glynis johns

[@alexanderlolamax5144]

she looks completely sane and mentally sober, but just trapped in an old body, that's crazy. If only people could fix the body, she'd keep playing.

[@bojack40]

So happy to see her happy and enjoying reflecting

[@MirandaParedes]

happy belated 100th birthday glynis! young fan here, so happy to have the same name of such an iconic movie♡

[@patterson65]

Her mind is still so sharp! Best wishes, Lady Penelope Peasoup!

[@IanWitt0]

Amazing

[@TylerMcNamer]

So many generations grew up with this woman.

[@Mer1912]

Wow, what an amazing person. I never knew she played all those roles, even superstar.

[@alwaysblake148]

I saw her in A Little Night Music on Broadway. She originated the role, and no other actress since has equaled the enchantment she brought to the show.

[@peterd788]

Stephen Sondheim loved Judi Dench's interpretation.

[@jakeornot6306]

@@peterd788 What a rude remark. @alwaysblake145 saw her in 'A Little Night Music' on Broadway'. Did you ever see her on stage? Rude, insolent.

[@peterd788]

@jakeornot6306 I love Glynis Johns but the original poster said no other actress has equalled the enchantment she brought to the show and I pointed out that Stephen Sondheim loved Judi Dench's interpretation. What is arrogant or insolent about that? Sondheim actually went a lot further than that about Dench.

[@darreylhenderson702]

​​​@@peterd788he did indeed, And she does a wonderful rendition of it . Though Sondheim himself did say that Johns was his favorite rendition.

[@Garsons-oq4lh]

Happy birthday! She also received a Golden Globe nomination for The Chapman Report 1962.

[@superharrisonxd-o-rama3163]

RIP GLYNIS 😢🌹

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Good that she is still going strong and made 100.

[@JohnSulu14]

She outlived Queen Elizabeth II, Angela Lansbury, Virginia Zeani, Sally Ann Howes, Barbara Windsor, Charmian Carr, and Heather Menzies altogether. In addition, she got to surpass June Foray and Betty White. Let's hope she will still be alive for another few years making it to at least 102+.

[@mariosanchezgumiel7757]

Thank you for this report.

[@Attmay]

It was a thinly disguised ad for a shitty boomer movie that pretty much killed movie musicals if not music itself.

[@debramontgomery7594]

Happy Birthday❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@elvispresleythelegendtcbalways]

R.I.P GLYNIS. .

[@bkynbiker19]

Nice piece, I'm glad someone covered this and she agreed to be interviewed. Only sorry they didn't mention "The Ref" among her 90s work - she's absolutely brilliant in it

[@Attmay]

She also was in *The Sword in the Rose* in 1952 where she disguised herself as a man to hide from those looking for her. That’s why I’m not impressed with Blake Edwards’ widow pretending to be a man in that overrated movie where Webster’s dad kissed James Rockford.

[@douglashryniuk1346]

Fantastic woman!! She deserves a hug!!

[@jakeornot6306]

What she "deserves" is a blasted Oscar, a Grammy, and a Lifetime Achievement Award, not because she made it to 100 years of age, but for her incredibly versatile, extensive body of work.

[@spencermarkham1]

Happy birthday ma’am! You seem to have the zest for life that my grandmother had, God rest her soul! I wish I had that zest for life a couple months short of 38 years old!

[@nickcasenta5651]

U were one of my favorites of the silver screen and you will be eternally that. Best of the best. Luv always 🙏

[@NeverSurrenderMM]

I loved her character in While You Were Sleeping! "Look on the bright side. At least he'll have more room in his shorts."

[@Attmay]

Yeah, I forgot she was in that movie as well. Yet another reason it is insulting what Disney chooses to remember her for.

[@donnawaldron3261]

She's passed away today 04/01/2024

[@mphlohi]

Happy Centennial Birthday Glynis Johns

[@catgirlbot]

Beautiful inside & out! Thank you so much for the laughs & smiles!

[@PINCHER001]

🤨

[@shaunig6716]

Still such a lovely lady 😁 Happy Birthday! 🥳 🎂🍾🥂

[@nickmann9549]

I LOVE this!!! Happy Birthday Glynis!!! Your Desiree was amazing!!!

[@donnalichvarcik9358]

You finally made it to 100 and many more to come happy birthday 🎉👑🎂🎈🎁🎊 Glynis we ❤ you

[@ginnyvann580]

RIP Glyins!