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Post by yanceycravat on Jan 1, 2024 0:31:29 GMT
David Kernan Dies: ‘Carry On' Star And Sondheim Stalwart Was 85
Kernan was best known in the UK for his role in the comedy classic film Carry On Abroad in 1972, but in 1977 he was also nominated for a Tony Award for his role in the original Broadway cast of Side by Side by Sondheim.
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Post by marysara1 on Jan 4, 2024 20:25:23 GMT
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Post by mr6667 on Jan 4, 2024 22:05:20 GMT
Glynis Johns, Who Played Mrs. Banks in ‘Mary Poppins,’ Dies at 100
English actor Glynis Johns, who played the daffy suffragette mother Mrs. Banks in the classic film “Mary Poppins,” died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles, her manager Mitch Clem confirmed to Variety. She was 100.
“Glynis powered her way through life with intelligence, wit, and a love for performance, affecting millions of lives,”
Johns won a Tony for her role as Desiree Armfeldt in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music,” introducing the song “Send in the Clowns” — written for her by Sondheim. In addition she was Oscar-nominated for her supporting role in 1960’s “The Sundowners.”
In “The Sundowners” (1960), for which Johns drew a supporting actress Oscar nom, Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr played a couple who, with their son, wander the Australian countryside, he content with the life, she wanting to settle down. Describing the others in the film, the New York Times highlighted “the bright, bouncy barmaid-inn keeper, played richly by Glynis Johns.”
Johns had made her film debut in 1938, while still a teen, but she didn’t break through until 10 years later, when she played a mermaid in “Miranda.”..........
The actor was known for a delightfully husky, breathy voice, a buoyant persona and, when she was young, a charming flirtatiousness.
Johns had been an actor in England for more than 20 years when she was cast in Disney’s adaptation of P.L. Travers’ “Mary Poppins” novels. The trouble was that Johns thought she had been cast as Mary Poppins. To help the medicine go down when he told her the news that she had, in fact, been cast as Mrs. Banks, Walt Disney ordered his legendary musical team, the Sherman Brothers, to write a big number for the character. They made Mrs. Banks a suffragette.....
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Post by sagebrush on Jan 5, 2024 1:35:13 GMT
What a lovely lady. I like every one of her performances. Everything about her was unique. 100 years is a long time to live, but I'm still sad.
~RIP, Ms. Johns.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 5, 2024 2:30:31 GMT
Gonna miss Glynis Johns. So glad we have many great films to remember her by...rest in peace sweet lady!
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Post by NoShear on Jan 5, 2024 15:48:27 GMT
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Post by sagebrush on Jan 6, 2024 2:05:45 GMT
TCM Remembers- Glynis Johns
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Post by nipkowdisc on Jan 6, 2024 4:47:25 GMT
I found Glynis Johns to be a very great lady.
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Post by nipkowdisc on Jan 6, 2024 13:40:41 GMT
Hutch has croaked. David Soul dead at 80. although he was primarily a musician he will be remembered for playing Ben Mears on possibly the best supernatural thriller ever made for TV Salem's Lot. Bonnie Bedelia is even more unforgettable as susan norton who suffers the tragic fate of becoming a vampiress. that CBS miniseries was so good it was supposed to become a TV series but never did.
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Post by NoShear on Jan 6, 2024 17:16:49 GMT
Hutch has croaked. David Soul dead at 80. although he was primarily a musician he will be remembered for playing Ben Mears on possibly the best supernatural thriller ever made for TV Salem's Lot. Bonnie Bedelia is even more unforgettable as susan norton who suffers the tragic fate of becoming a vampiress. that CBS miniseries was so good it was supposed to become a TV series but never did. Funny, nipkowdisc, I think of David Soul in the opposite - primarily an actor whose IMDb resume also includes:
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Post by mikaelaarsenault on Jan 13, 2024 14:04:16 GMT
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Post by mikaelaarsenault on Jan 13, 2024 14:04:51 GMT
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Post by NoShear on Jan 14, 2024 18:30:08 GMT
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Post by dianedebuda on Jan 15, 2024 17:57:43 GMT
Nice to see you back, Mikaela.
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Post by yanceycravat on Jan 22, 2024 22:22:27 GMT
Norman Jewison, acclaimed director of ‘In the Heat of the Night’ and ‘Moonstruck,’ dead at 97
NEW YORK (AP) — Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris Day comedies and “Moonstruck” to such social dramas as the Oscar-winning “In the Heat of the Night,” has died at age 97.
apnews.com/article/norman-jewison-dead-abd93f2b671b416aabdd83829822e14a
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