Editing Glynis Johns (section)

==Public image==
[[File:GLYNISJohns.jpg|Studio publicity photo of Johns in 1959|thumb|upright]]
In September 1946, when she was still fairly new to the profession, [[Powell and Pressburger]] hailed Johns as "one of the most sought-after of all young British stars".<ref>[https://powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/Glynis/Picturegoer.html The Powell & Pressburger Pages, 28 September 1946]</ref> She was voted by British exhibitors as the 10th-most popular box-office star in 1951 and 1952.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63397098|title=Vivien Leigh: Actress of the Year|newspaper=[[Townsville Daily Bulletin]]|location=Qld.|date=29 December 1951|access-date=9 July 2012|page=1|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18504988|title=COMEDIAN TOPS FILM POLL|newspaper=[[The Sunday Herald (Sydney)|The Sunday Herald]]|location=Sydney|date=28 December 1952|access-date=9 July 2012|page=4|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> By the time of ''Loser Takes All'' (1956), Johns was a top box-office draw.<ref name="Glynis & Angela: Ninetysomething Marvels"/>

A devotee of [[British cinema]], Johns said in 1946, "I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen,"<ref>{{cite news|url = https://powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/Glynis/Picturegoer.html|title = Glynis Johns gangs warily|last = Tree|first = Laurence|date = 28 September 1946|work = [[Picturegoer]]}}</ref> She found her stardom in 1940s Britain (wherein her "glistening blue eyes and perfect comic timing made her British cinema's most sought-after female lead") and was already a star by the time she was in ''[[No Highway in the Sky]]'', a joint British and American production produced in 1951, and her first role in [[American cinema]].<ref name="bestofbritishmag">{{Cite web |title=Film Star Favourite – Glynis Johns {{!}} Best of British Magazine |url=https://www.bestofbritishmag.co.uk/film-star-favourite-glynis-johns |access-date=8 March 2023 |website=Best of British|date=2 November 2010 }}</ref> Johns became an indelible part of the cinema histories of both Britain and America, maintaining her British and American careers simultaneously. Following ''No Highway in the Sky'', she took on increasingly more roles in America and elsewhere; most of her television credits were American, including her eponymous 1963 sitcom ''Glynis'', though her film and theatre credits (with several notable exceptions) were British.<ref name="bestofbritishmag"/>

In ''[[Finishing the Hat]]'' (2010), [[Stephen Sondheim]] wrote, "[Johns was] perhaps the only major British stage actress not associated with Shakespeare".<ref name="Finishing the Hat">{{Cite book |title=Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954–1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes |last=Sondheim |first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Sondheim |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-679-43907-3 |location=New York |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/finishinghat00}}</ref>