100 years and the legendary film that touched the childhood of millions of people, so quickly introduce Glynnis Jones, the British actress who is the doyenne of cinema!
He starred in more than 90 films and TV series, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in Horizons Without Limits (1960) and a Tony for the role. A little night music (1973), a musical comedy inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film A Midsummer Night’s Smile.
But many people know his face from a much more popular feature film.
She is best remembered by the general public for her roles as Mrs. Winifred Banks, the suffragette mother of young Jane and Michael, and Mary Poppins in George W. Banks’s wife. A positive, cheerful and loyal character who does not allow her capricious husband to calculate.
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Jones appeared in his first film in 1938, South Riding, when he was only 15 years old. She got her first major role in Marcel Vanelli’s (1946) This Man Is Mine, followed by Frida (1947) and Miranda the following year, where she played a mermaid for director Ken Anakin. A few years later, she would play the mermaid again in Folle des hommes (1954).
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During the 1950s she specialized in adventure films with Moana, Daughter of the Tropics, The King’s Gesture and The Island Wanderer and was given the lead role in the prison film Girls Without Joy (1954).
He will find a place of choice for the comedies Joséphine et les hommes, La Bourrasque or The Spider’s Web, adapted from Agatha Christie. He made his first Disney films in 1953, The Rose and the Sword and The King of Chess.
Here he was interviewed on ABC7 a few weeks ago:
The early 1960s were more difficult for Glynis Jones, who lost her movie star status and instead found work in television, including the TV series Glynis (1963), in which she starred as a thriller writer who tries her hand at being a detective.
It was unsuccessful, but Walt Disney did not forget her and offered her a role in Mary Poppins, which would make her known to the world audience.
This will not be enough to revive his cinematic career, but he will continue to work in television, especially as a Batman villain (at least in 4 episodes), in Arabesque, but also in The Crime of Ovide Plouffe or Coming of Age.
In 1999, she played what would be her last role: a grandmother in Superstar. Then he was 76 years old and his career ended. Years passed and in 2023 he turned 100 years old!
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