She may be one of cinema’s most famous suffragettes, but is Mary Poppins’ Mrs Banks really the perfect ... brothers Richard and Robert Sherman, actress Glynis Johns thought she had the lead ...

Glynis Johns, who played Mrs. Banks in "Mary Poppins," passed away on Jan. 4 from natural causes. She was 100. David Soul, left, best known for his role as Detective Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson on ...

British actress Glynis Johns, known for her role as suffragette mother Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins, died in Los Angeles in ...

Glynis Johns, the actress, who has died aged 100, rose to fame in the late 1940s and early 1950s in a series of film comedies; she became best-known for playing the suffragette mother Mrs Banks in ...