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1923–2024 England
Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (5 October 1923 – 4 January 2024) was a British actress working in film, stage, and television whose career spanned eight decades. At the time of her death, she was one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood and classical years of British cinema.
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For me, most relationships with men have been like pregnancies – they last only nine months. One of my marriages lated only three months. It wasn't a marriage at all but a serious mistake.
I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.
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.
I always said that 'Send In The Clowns' was the best gift I was ever given. But I've always thought before I decide I don't want to do theater anymore, I'd like to have a vehicle that gave me the scope to do something beautiful. Maybe this is it.
I was quite an athlete, my muscles were strong from dancing, so the tail was just fine. I swam like a porpoise.
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.