Editing Glynis Johns (section)

==Early life and education==
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| source = — Glynis Johns<ref name="LA Times 1991">{{cite news |last=Arkatov |first=Janice |date=17 April 1991 |title= A New Role in an Old Favorite : Stage: Glynis Johns returns to 'A Little Night Music.' At 67, she is relinquishing her signature song and part to another actress—happily, she says. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-04-17-ca-126-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref><br />''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', 17 April 1991}}
Johns was born into a theatrical family. Her mother was Alyce Steele-Wareham, an Australian-born [[concert pianist]] who had studied in London and [[Vienna]].<ref name="Desert Sun">[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19630426.2.50&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 Glynis Johns] | Desert Sun, Volume 36, Number 226, 26 April 1963</ref> Originally of English descent, Alyce's family found fame as performing actors, singers and musicians, touring Australia, New Zealand and South Africa with their musical programmes;<ref>[[National Library of New Zealand]] – [https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22437920 Steele-Payne New Company]</ref> her grandmother, Elizabeth Steele-Payne, was one of the first accomplished women violinists of her time.<ref name="tcm"/> Johns' father was [[Welsh people|Welsh]] actor [[Mervyn Johns]], who became a star of British films during the [[Second World War]] and worked regularly at [[Ealing Studios]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leninimports.com/pages/glynis_johns.html|title=Glynis Johns|publisher=leninimports|access-date=17 October 2022}}</ref> Through him, she was a cousin of British judge [[John Geoffrey Jones]].<ref name="Who's Who">{{Who's Who | author=[Anon.] | year=2021 | title=Johns, Glynis | id=U22077 | doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U22077}}</ref> Alyce and Mervyn met while studying in London, he at the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] and she at the [[Royal Academy of Music]]. They married on 17 November 1922 in [[St Giles, London|St Giles]], London, and began touring with her family's theatre company.<ref>{{cite news|last=Benedick|first=Adam|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mervyn-johns-1550946.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mervyn-johns-1550946.html |archive-date=12 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Mervyn Johns|date=12 September 1992|website=The Independent|access-date=23 December 2017}}</ref> Glynis Margaret Payne Johns was born on 5 October 1923, while her parents were touring [[Pretoria]], capital of the then [[Union of South Africa]] (a [[dominion]] of the [[British Empire]] and later the British [[Commonwealth of Nations]]).<ref>{{cite news |date=6 February 1952 |title=Variety, February 1952 |url=https://archive.org/stream/variety185-1952-02/variety185-1952-02_djvu.txt |location=Internet Archive |access-date=17 October 2022 |quote=Glynis Margaret Payne Forwood to David Foster, New York, Feb. 2.}}</ref> She was named "Margaret" "Payne" after her grandmothers Margaret Anne Samuel and Elizabeth Steele-Payne.<ref name="The Voice">{{cite news |date=20 September 1952 |title=The Life Story of Glynis Johns |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/222148419 |work=The Voice |location=Tasmania |access-date=19 October 2022}}</ref>

The family returned to England just a few months after she was born.<ref name="Daily Express 2023"/> Aged five, she joined the London Ballet School; by six, she was hailed in Britain as a dancing wonder;<ref name="Desert Sun"/> by 10, she was working as a Ballet instructor; and by 11, she had earned a degree to teach. Hoping to study with the [[Sadler's Wells Ballet]] at age 12, she was enrolled instead at [[Clifton High School, Bristol|Clifton High School]] in Bristol, balancing academia with the two hours a day she spent at the Cone School of Dancing (which later merged with the Ripman School to form [[Tring Park School for the Performing Arts]]).<ref name="pressburger">{{cite web |url=https://powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/Glynis/Picturegoer.html |title=Glynis Johns |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=28 September 1946 |website=The Powell & Pressburger Pages |publisher=Picturegoer |access-date=26 September 2022 |quote=she came to this country when she was still a child, and attended Clifton High School. Then she attended the Cone School of Dancing. For two hours each day she put in intensive training at the rail in the ballet class}}</ref> As a dance student, Johns amassed some 25 gold medals.<ref>[https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/glynis-johns/ Glynis Johns]: [[Disney Legend]]</ref><ref name="Glynis & Angela: Ninetysomething Marvels">{{cite magazine |last=Parkinson |first=David |date=9 April 2022 |title=Glynis & Angela: Ninetysomething Marvels |url=https://www.cinemaparadiso.co.uk/films/collections/getting-to-know/glynis-and-angela-ninetysomething-marvels |magazine=[[Cinema Paradiso]] |publisher=Cinema Paradiso |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref> Aside from her [[Clifton, Bristol|Clifton]] education, she also attended [[South Hampstead High School]] in London,<ref>{{cite magazine |date=1 April 1992 |title=The Times, 1992, UK, English |url=https://archive.org/stream/NewsUK1992UKEnglish/Apr%2001%201992%2C%20The%20Times%2C%20%2364295%2C%20UK%20%28en%29_djvu.txt |magazine=The Times |location=London |access-date=19 October 2022}}</ref> where she was a contemporary of [[Angela Lansbury]].<ref name="Daily Express 2023"/>