"Glynis Johns" is a British stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer. She is best known for creating the role of Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Tony Award, and for playing Winifred Banks in Walt Disney's musical motion picture box office smash Mary Poppins (film)/Mary Poppins. In both roles, she originated songs written specifically for her, including "Send in the Clowns", composed by Stephen Sondheim, and "Sister Suffragette", written by the Sherman Brothers.

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Originally my father was a medical student. He suddenly gave up his studies and walked out to become an actor. I thought perhaps I ought to make a decision like that, too, and so I decided to plump for being a film actress. I have not given up the stage, but I am concentrating on the screen until I reach the top.

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I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

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Relatives cannot help you in the studios," she says. "You stand or fall by your own efforts.

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It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

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