‘Mary Poppins’ Actress Glynis Johns Dead at 100

Award-winning actress Glynis Johns has died. Her career took her from the stages of London’s West End to Hollywood and Broadway. She was probably best known as Mrs. Winifred Banks, the suffragist mother of the children cared for by Mary Poppins. In 1973, Johns won a Tony Award for Best Actress. She sang the torch song, “Send in the Clowns,” in the Stephen Sondheim show, "A Little Night Music." Johns’ manager said she died in Los Angeles of natural causes. Glynis Johns was 100 years old.