Editing Glynis Johns (section)

==Personal life==
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| quote = Glynis had light brown hair, blue eyes, and was five feet, four inches [{{convert|5|ft|4|in|cm|disp=out}}] in height. Dancing was of great interest to her and her favourite recreation, coupled with the collecting of good, syncopated numbers: [[Glenn Miller]]'s "[[In the Mood]]" was her favourite. Her favourite classical composers were [[Grieg]], [[Mozart]], and [[Debussy]]. Riding, tennis, and ice skating were her sports, and her ideal holiday was to be in a mountain resort where there is plenty of night-life. Her favourite reading was autobiographies, preferably those of celebrities she knew
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===Relationships===
[[File:Glynis Johns & Gareth Forwood.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Johns with her son [[Gareth Forwood]]]]
Johns was married four times. She met her first husband, [[Anthony Forwood]], while rehearsing for ''[[Quiet Wedding]]'' (1941). A year after they met, Forwood asked her on a date and they were married within a month on 29 August 1942 in [[Westminster]], London. The couple's only child, actor [[Gareth Forwood]], was born on 14 October 1945.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqyuDQAAQBAJ|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth Edition|first1=Brian|last1=McFarlane|first2=Anthony|last2=Slide|date=1 January 2013|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9780719091391 |via=Google Books}}</ref> Following a lengthy court proceeding, she was granted a divorce on 25 June 1948 "because of adultery by her husband."<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=26 June 1948 |title=Decree For Actress |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19480626/012/0001 |work=[[Daily Mirror]] |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]] |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>

Johns began dating producer [[Antony Darnborough]] after working together on ''[[Encore (1951 film)|Encore]]'' (1951).<ref name="Antony Darnborough The Daily Telegraph"/> He proposed to her at [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]]'s [[Sunningdale Golf Club]] in June 1951.<ref>[https://www.beaumont-union.co.uk/pdfs/Winter%20Review%202017.pdf BEAUMONT UNION REVIEW WINTER 2017]</ref> ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' later said that "theirs was to have been one of the most glittering show-business weddings," but it never took place. ''Gertie'' (1951) took her to Broadway and their wedding was postponed; in December 1951, it was called off. The former couple remained "good friends" and she appeared in his 1953 television drama ''[[Personal Affair]]''.<ref name="Antony Darnborough The Daily Telegraph">{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=29 December 2000 |title=Antony Darnborough |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1357226/Antony-Darnborough.html |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/468959/index.html |title=Johns, Glynis (1923–) |year=2014 |website=Screen Online |publisher=Encyclopedia of British Film |access-date=19 October 2022 |quote=she had a well-publicised engagement to producer Antony Darnborough}}</ref>

On 1 February 1952 in [[Manhattan]], Johns married [[David Foster (Royal Navy officer)|David Foster]], a Royal Navy officer and later president of [[Colgate-Palmolive]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/7897263/Lieutenant-Commander-David-Foster.html | title =Lieutenant-Commander David Foster | work=The Telegraph | date = 18 July 2010 | access-date = 5 January 2024}}</ref> They divorced on 17 May 1956 on the ground of his adultery with an unnamed woman.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glynis Johns |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/95527%7C62597/Glynis-Johns/ |access-date=8 March 2023 |website=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |language=en}}</ref> He did not contest the charge.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=18 May 1956 |title=Glynis Johns gets her divorce |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000104/19560518/108/0007 |work=[[Western Mail (Wales)|Western Mail]] |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]] |location=Cardiff |access-date=5 January 2024}}</ref>

Johns married Cecil Henderson, a businessman, on 10 October 1960 in Westminster, London.<ref name="New York Times 2024"/> They divorced on 21 June 1962. He cited adultery and she did not contest the charge.<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 June 1962 |title=Glynis is divorced on the ground of adultery |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19620623-1.2.23 |access-date=8 March 2023 |website=eresources.nlb.gov.sg |language=en-SG}}</ref>

Johns' fourth and last husband was the writer and [[United States Air Force]] Captain [[Elliott Arnold]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Papers of Elliott Arnold {{!}} Special Collections |url=https://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/collections/papers-elliott-arnold |access-date=8 March 2023 |website=[[University of Arizona Library]]}}</ref> They announced their engagement on 25 June 1964 and were married on 1 October in Los Angeles, California.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/25/archives/glynis-johns-is-engaged.html |title=Glynis Johns Is Engaged | work =The New York Times | date =25 June 1964}}</ref><ref>[https://newspaperarchive.com/tucson-daily-citizen-oct-02-1964-p-24/ "British Actress Married"] ''Tucson Daily Citizen'' (archives), 2 October 1964</ref> They divorced on 4 January 1973.<ref name="Johns Hits a High Note"/><ref name="Glynis Johns Companions">[http://www.tcm.turner.com/tcmdb/person/95527|62597/Glynis-Johns/companions.html "Glynis Johns Companions"] tcm.com. Retrieved 7 April 2019</ref>

In a 1973 interview with Robert Berkvist, Johns described – in her experience – the compatibility of theatre and marriage: "Acting is my highest form of intelligence, the time when I use the best part of my brain. I was always told, by my married friends, for example, that I could apply that intelligence to something else, some other aspect of living, but I can't. I don't have the same flair in other things." On the subject of a fifth marriage, she reflected, "I'd tread very softly in that area. Very softly. I certainly wouldn't rush into anything again, and I'd have to have an awful lot in common with anyone I'd consider marrying next time. Why so many marriages? It was absolute conservatism on my part. I was brought up to feel that if you wanted to have an affair with a man, well, you married him. I have friends who, if they'd followed that rule, would have collected an awful lot of pieces of paper by now."<ref name="Johns Hits a High Note">{{cite news |last=Berkvist |first=Robert |date=11 March 1973 |title=Miss Johns Hits a High Note |work=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/11/archives/miss-johns-hits-a-high-note-miss-johns-hits-a-high-note.html |access-date=19 October 2022}}</ref>

Following the death of her mother, Alyce Steele-Wareham, on 1 September 1971 in Westminster, Johns' father Mervyn Johns married actress [[Diana Churchill (actress)|Diana Churchill]] on 4 December 1976 in [[Hillingdon]], London.<ref>{{cite news |last=Benedick |first=Adam |date=13 October 1994 |title=Obituary: Diana Churchill |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-diana-churchill-1442835.html |work=The Independent |location=London |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref> Johns' grandson, Thomas Forwood, is a French writer and film director.<ref name="Daily Express 2023"/><ref name="New York Times 2024"/>

===Health and voice===
Following her marriage to David Foster in 1952, she became {{convert|14|lb|kg|spell=in|round=0.5}} overweight. Talking to Lydia Lane, she describes this ordeal: "I was relaxed, happy, with little to do and I suppose I simply didn't burn up as much energy as usual. My appetite stayed the same and I gained a few pounds at a time until one day I discovered I was 14 pounds overweight." Her solution was simple: "I'm convinced that weight is a mental problem," she said. "I counted calories for a while, but nothing happened until I became really disturbed about it. From that moment on, I began to lose weight and in three weeks, I was back to normal. The point I am trying to make is that dieting alone is not enough. It must be accompanied by a strong will and determination to lose [weight]."<ref name="Vintage Venus">{{cite news |year=1955 |title= Glynis Johns – Beauty in classic Hollywood! |url=https://neglectedvenus.wordpress.com/2020/08/07/glynis-johns/ |work=Beauty in classic Hollywood! |access-date=19 October 2022}}</ref>

Johns previously had severe [[migraine]]s. In a 1955 interview, she admitted, "Only recently have I learned how to relax. And since I have, the migraine headaches, which have plagued me for years, have disappeared. I've finally learned to be still inside. Someone told me once, 'When you let God in on your problems, you can let go and relax,' and I've found that it works."<ref name="Vintage Venus"/>

A few days before Johns was due to play Desiree Armfeldt at the opening night of ''A Little Night Music'' in 1973, she was rushed to hospital for emergency treatment of an [[intestinal infection]]. The debut was postponed by a week and [[Tammy Grimes]] was thought to be a likely successor. Though her doctor was "aghast", Johns rejoined the show after just two days: "I was not going to have anybody else sing my songs," she said.<ref name="Johns Hits a High Note"/>

Johns suffered from [[stage fright]] throughout most of her career. In a 2023 interview, her grandson Thomas said, "Of course, she came across as supremely confident, but in private, she suffered quite crippling stage fright that she never really got over – only managed – so that makes her career even more remarkable."<ref name="Daily Express 2023"/>

Johns' voice has been described by a press agent as "like the sound of a brook burbling over a pebbled bed."<ref>{{cite news |last=Berg |first=Louis |date=2 August 1953 |title=I'm put together all wrong! |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111919863/glynis-johns/ |work=[[St. Louis Globe-Democrat]] |location=Newspapers |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref> In ''[[Finishing the Hat]]'' (2010), [[Stephen Sondheim]] wrote that she had a "small but silvery voice that was musical and smokily pure".<ref name="Finishing the Hat"/>

===Later years and death===
Johns was predeceased by all four of her husbands. The first to die was her third husband, Cecil Henderson, in 1978, followed by her fourth husband, Elliott Arnold, in 1980, her first husband, Anthony Forwood, in 1988, and her second husband, David Foster, in 2010. Her then 62-year-old son, Gareth Forwood, died in 2007 from a heart attack during cancer treatment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/mary-poppins-cast-now-suicidal-24833659|title=Mary Poppins cast now – suicidal depression, hepatitis death and botched surgery|work=Mirror|date=27 August 2021|first=Verity|last=Sulway|accessdate=17 November 2022}}</ref>

With the death of [[Olivia de Havilland]] in 2020, Johns became the oldest living [[Academy Award]] nominee in any acting category.<ref name="Glynis & Angela: Ninetysomething Marvels"/> In 2021, with the death of [[Betty White]], she became the oldest living Disney Legend.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hanna |first=Jeremy |date=5 October 2023 |title='Mary Poppins' Legend Celebrates 100th Birthday |url=https://insidethemagic.net/2023/10/mary-poppins-legend-celebrates-100th-birthday-julie-andrews-dick-van-dyke-glynis-johns-jh1/ |work=Inside the Magic |access-date=10 October 2023}}</ref>

Johns retired to the US,<ref name="Belmont Village Senior Living">{{Cite web|url=https://www.belmontvillage.com/stories/glynis-johns/|title=Glynis Johns|website=Belmont Village Senior Living | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230921114615/https://www.belmontvillage.com/stories/glynis-johns/ | archive-date= 21 September 2023 | url-status=live}}</ref> where she later resided at the Belmont Village Hollywood Heights, a senior-living community, located near the [[Hollywood Bowl]] in Los Angeles.<ref name="Belmont Village Senior Living"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://abc7.com/glynis-johns-mary-poppins-a-little-night-music-actress/13864387/|title=Actress Glynis Johns turns 100, reflects on career dating back to 1930s|website=ABC7.com|date=5 October 2023|first=George|last=Pennacchio|accessdate=6 October 2023}}</ref>

Johns died in Los Angeles at an assisted-living home, on 4 January 2024, at age 100 from natural causes.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Yang |first=Maya |date=4 January 2024 |title=Glynis Johns, who played Mrs Banks in Mary Poppins, dies at the age of 100 from natural causes. |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/05/glynis-johns-dead-mrs-banks-mary-poppins |access-date=4 January 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name="bbc">{{Cite news |date=4 January 2024 |title=Mary Poppins actress Glynis Johns dies aged 100 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67888244 |access-date=4 January 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name="New York Times 2024">{{Cite news |last=Gates |first=Anita |date=4 January 2024 |title=Glynis Johns, Tony Winner for 'A Little Night Music,' Dies at 100 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/theater/glynis-johns-dead.html |access-date=4 January 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In April, her ashes were transported to Wales to be buried at Jerusalem Independent Chapel in [[Burry Port]], alongside the remains of her father. The song "Send in the Clowns" was played at the service.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 August 2024 |title=Mary Poppins: Hollywood actress Glynis Johns buried in Burry Port, Wales |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d7624x2kgo |access-date=30 August 2024 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>