Glynis Johns, starred as Mrs. Banks in original ‘Mary Poppins’ film, dies at 100

Actress Glynis Johns is shown in this 1982 file photo. The Tony Award-winning stage and screen star played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic 1964 movie “Mary Poppins.” (AP)

NEW YORK — Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, has died. She was 100.

Mitch Clem, her manager, said she died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles of natural causes.