Editing Glynis Johns (section)

===1980–1999: Final roles ===
[[File:Noel Coward 13 Allan Warren.jpg|left|upright=.75|Playwright [[Noël Coward]], in whose plays Johns frequently starred |thumb]]
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| quote = In classical theatre in Europe, everybody plays all kinds of parts. Juliets go on to play the Nurses; they don't want to play Juliet again. I think we've got to remember to grab onto our perks, whatever is the good thing about each age. Each stage of life should be a progression.
| source = — Glynis Johns<ref name="LA Times 1991"/><br />''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', 17 April 1991}}
Johns appeared in Noël Coward's comic play ''[[Hay Fever (play)|Hay Fever]]'' as Judith Bliss from 4 August 1981 to 10 October 1981 at the [[Yvonne Arnaud Theatre]] in [[Guildford]] and the [[Theatre Royal, Nottingham|Theatre Royal]] in [[Nottingham]]. This was her fourth role in a Noël Coward production.<ref name="Glynis Johns on Theatricalia"/> From 20 November 1989 to 20 May 1990, she starred as Lady Catherine Champion-Cheney in [[W Somerset Maugham]]'s Broadway romance ''[[The Circle (play)|The Circle]]'' at the [[Ambassador Theatre (New York City)|Ambassador Theatre]] in New York City.<ref name="Glynis Johns on Theatricalia"/>

Johns' screen work of the 1980s took second place to her work on stage.<ref name="Glynis & Angela: Ninetysomething Marvels"/> In 1982, she was cast as Laura Fitzpatrick Morgan in the American-British [[Biographical film|biographical]] television film ''[[Little Gloria... Happy at Last]]'' with [[Lucy Gutteridge]] in the leading role of [[Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt]].<ref name="The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis A Personal Biography">{{cite book |last=Chandler |first=Charlotte |author-link=Charlotte Chandler |date=9 December 2008 |title=The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis A Personal Biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ZuA3i0ICP4C |via=[[Google Books]] |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |page=Contents |isbn=9781847396983}}</ref> Johns had a starring role in ''[[Nukie]]'' (1987), a [[Cinema of South Africa|South African]] [[science-fiction film]] in which she played the decisive Sister Anne alongside actors [[Anthony Morrison]], [[Steve Railsback]], and Ronald France.<ref name="NUKIE">{{Cite magazine|title=NUKIE|url=https://ew.com/article/1993/12/03/nukie/|access-date=21 May 2021|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|language=en|archive-date=4 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204002504/https://ew.com/article/1993/12/03/nukie/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Nukie|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/509168/nukie|access-date=21 May 2021|website=Turner Classic Movies|language=en}}</ref> In 1988, Johns provided the voice for Miss Grimwood, proprietor of Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, in ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School]]''. The plot follows the characters as Miss Grimwood hires them as her gym teachers; once there, however, they find it is actually a school for the daughters of paranormal beings.<ref name="The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons">{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/321/mode/2up |page=321}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Browning |first1=John Edgar |last2=Picart |first2=Caroline Joan (Kay) |author-link1=John Edgar Browning |author-link2=Caroline Joan S. Picart |date=10 January 2014 |title=Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921–2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=32-FBgZ1Ct4C |via=[[Google Books]] |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers |page=155 |isbn=9780786462018}}</ref> The same year, Johns starred in ''[[Zelly and Me]]'', an American drama film written, directed and produced by [[Tina Rathborne]]. In it, Johns plays Co-Co, the wealthy grandmother of [[protagonist]] Phoebe (played by [[Alexandra Johnes]]) and an egoist with a deeply competitive streak.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/15/movies/review-film-tangled-childhood-in-zelly-and-me.html |title=Review/Film; Tangled Childhood in 'Zelly and Me' |first=Vincent |last=Canby |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=15 April 1988 |access-date=30 August 2012}}</ref>

During the first season of NBC's hit sitcom ''[[Cheers]]'', Johns guest-starred as Diane Chambers' mother, Helen Chambers, an eccentric [[dowager]], who due to a stipulation in Diane's late father's will, will lose all her money unless Diane is married by the next day.<ref name="Cheers TV Show: A Comprehensive Reference">{{cite book |last=Bjorklund |first=Dennis |date=September 2014 |title=Cheers TV Show: A Comprehensive Reference |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pEN6sTeG20AC |via=[[Google Books]] |publisher=Praetorian Publishing |page=294 |isbn=9780967985237}}</ref> In 1985, Johns played Bridget O'Hara in the episode "Sing a Song of Murder" of CBS's crime drama television series ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'', working again with [[Angela Lansbury]].<ref name="Glynis & Angela: Ninetysomething Marvels"/> From 1988 to 1989, she played Trudie Pepper, a senior citizen living in an [[Arizona]] retirement community, in the television sitcom ''[[Coming of Age (1988 TV series)|Coming of Age]]'', also on CBS.<ref name="etvs">{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010|date=2011|publisher=McFarland & Company|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=978-0-7864-6477-7|page=203|edition=2nd}}</ref>

Following earlier work in the 1970s, Johns narrated two more albums for [[Caedmon Records]]: ''[[The Light Princess]]'' in 1981 and ''Bargain for Frances and Other Frances Stories'' in 1984.<ref name="Glynis Johns - Discography">[https://www.discogs.com/artist/913247-Glynis-Johns Glynis Johns – Discography] on [[Discogs]]</ref><ref>[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9160347W/Bargain_for_Frances_and_Other_Frances_Stories?edition=key%3A/books/OL11334438M Bargain for Frances and Other Frances Stories] at [[Open Library]]</ref>

In 1991, Johns returned to ''A Little Night Music'' aged 68, this time playing Madame Armfeldt, the mother of her original character Desiree, with Gordon Davidson directing at the [[Ricardo Montalbán Theatre]] in Los Angeles. Following this, she starred as Myrtle Bledsoe in the premiere of [[Horton Foote]]'s ''A Coffin in Egypt'' from June to July 1998 at the Bay Street Theatre in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/glynis-johns-opens-footes-coffin-in-egypt-at-bay-street-june-17-com-76060|title=Glynis Johns Opens Foote's Coffin in Egypt at Bay Street June 17 – Playbill|website=Playbill|date=17 June 1998}}</ref>

On screen, Johns had the main part of Darjeeling alongside [[Honor Blackman]] and [[Derek Jacobi]] on the American [[children's television]] anthology series ''[[ABC Weekend Special]]s'' (in the short "The Secret Garden", which aired on 5 November 1994).<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111105/?ref_=tt_ch The Secret Garden, Episode aired Nov 5, 1994 TV-Y 1h 9m] on [[IMDb]]</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Marill |first=Alvin H. |date=2003 |title=More Theatre: Stage to Screen to Television, 1993–2001 · Volume 2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JaQYAQAAIAAJ |location=[[Google Books]] |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |page=499 |isbn=9780810845367}}</ref>

Johns appeared in just three films in the 1990s, as the grandmother in each. She played the camera-toting grandmother in the 1995 [[Sandra Bullock]] hit ''[[While You Were Sleeping (film)|While You Were Sleeping]]''<ref name="tvguide"/> and the waspish Grandma Rose in [[Ted Demme]]'s 1994 [[black comedy film]] ''[[The Ref]]''. Of this role, Caution Spoilers' Sarah noted, "Glynis Johns as the awful Rose is terrific"; her character was often at odds with her son Lloyd Chasseur, played by [[Kevin Spacey]].<ref>{{cite magazine |date=3 December 2016 |title=Review of The Ref |url=https://www.cautionspoilers.com/film-reviews/the-ref/ |magazine=Caution Spoilers |location=Caution Spoilers |publisher=WordPress |access-date=19 October 2022}}</ref> In 1998, Johns was named a [[Disney legend]] in the film category.<ref>{{cite web|website=D23|publisher=Disney|url-access=subscription |access-date=26 January 2017|url=https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/Glynis-Johns|title=Glynis Johns}}</ref> Her last film appearance was as the grandmother of [[Molly Shannon]]'s [[Mary Katherine Gallagher|Mary Gallagher]] in the 1999 film ''[[Superstar (1999 film)|Superstar]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Banks |first=Michelle |date=August 2000 |title=Magill's Cinema Annual |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yESJ8VgZZUcC |via=[[Google Books]] |publisher=Cengage Gale |page=480 |isbn=9780787629038}}</ref>