The cast included Glynis Johns ( Desiree Armfeldt ), Len Cariou ( Fredrik Egerman ), Hermione Gingold ( Madame Armfeldt ), Victoria Mallory, Judith Kahan, Mark Lambert, Laurence Guittard, Patricia Elliott, George Lee Andrews, and D. Jamin Bartlett.

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

" It is written in short phrases in order to be acted rather than sung ... tailor-made for Glynis Johns, who lacks the vocal power to sustain long phrases.

These greetings were written by: Sheila Hancock, Julia McKenzie, Milton Babbitt, Judi Dench, and Glynis Johns.

Sondheim wrote the song specifically for the actress Glynis Johns, who created the role of Desirée on Broadway.

Sondheim wrote the lyrics and music over a two-day period during rehearsals for the play's Broadway debut, specifically for the actress Glynis Johns, who created the role of Desirée.

The differences are illustrated and may be compared in the performances of Glynis Johns and Judi Dench with those of Judy Collins and Frank Sinatra.

" As Glynis Johns did in the U. S., Jean Simmons created Desirée for the U. K. stage in 1975 to similar effect.

** Glynis Johns, British actress

Another fictionalized version of Mary's marital adventures is portrayed in the 1953 Walt Disney film The Sword and the Rose starring Richard Todd and Glynis Johns.

The movie stars Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov, with a supporting cast including Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Michael Anderson, Jr., and Chips Rafferty.

The Sundowners was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Deborah Kerr ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Glynis Johns ), Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

* Glynis Johns as Mrs. Firth

Nineteen actors appearing in Zinnemann's films received Academy Award nominations for their performances: among that number are Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, Glynis Johns, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Gary Cooper and Maximilian Schell.

The Sundowners ( 1960 ), starring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr as an Australian outback husband and wife, led to more Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress ( Kerr ) and Best Supporting Actress ( Glynis Johns ), but won none.

Glynis Johns ( born 5 October 1923 ) is a South African-born Welsh stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer ( notably of " Send in the Clowns ", which she originated in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, and " Sister Suffragette " which was written for her for Walt Disney's musical motion picture, Mary Poppins written by the Sherman Brothers ).

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She pursued her favorite subject-the female experience-in a number of films, including Street Corner ( 1953 ) about women police officers, Somerset Maugham's The Beachcomber ( 1954 ), with Glynis Johns as a resourceful missionary, and a series of comedies about the battle of the sexes, including The Passionate Stranger ( 1957 ), The Truth About Women ( 1958 ) and her final film, Rattle of a Simple Man ( 1964 ).

She wants to try out, but Grandma Gallagher ( Glynis Johns ) will not let her.

She was born Glynis van der Riet.

During the 1960s, Oppenheimer created and produced three short-lived sitcoms: Angel, starring Annie Fargé and Marshall Thompson ), Glynis ( fall of 1963 ) ( starring Glynis Johns ), and The Debbie Reynolds Show ( 1969-70 ).

" The actress Glynis Barber, who played Soolin on Blake's 7 provided the voice for the main female character.

He was most vocal, towards the end of his life, on the issue of voluntary euthanasia, of which he became a staunch proponent after witnessing the protracted death of his lifelong partner and manager Anthony Forwood ( the former husband of actress Glynis Johns ) in 1988.

A light comedy, the film is about a beautiful and playful mermaid played by Glynis Johns and her effect on Griffith Jones.

One of her biographers, Glynis Ridley, suggests that her mother may have been of Huguenot extraction, a group that had a higher tradition of literacy than was otherwise typical of the peasant classes of the time .. Another biographer, John Dunmore, suggests that she may have been taught by the parish priest or taken on as a charity case by a member of the local gentry.

Her " fairy tale films ", as she called them, started with The Mermaid ( 1911 ), in which she was the first actress to wear a swimmable mermaid costume on film, paving the way for future screen sirens such as Glynis Johns ( Miranda ), Esther Williams and Daryl Hannah ( Splash ).

During the programme, winning teachers are presented with a Plato award, designed by sculptor Glynis Owen and based on her work titled ' The Thinking Man.

The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon ( Dempsey ) and Glynis Barber ( Makepeace ), who later married each other on 18 November 1989.

They include interviews and audio commentaries on selected episodes with Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, however the episodes themselves were frequently abridged and cut to make them suitable for pre-watershed television.

The show was briefly revived during 1985 as a three-part sequence shown over a single morning on Breakfast Television but without Glynis Barber in the main role.

The Smashing Pumpkins wrote a song " Glynis " as a tribute, which was released on " No Alternative " compilation.

* The Sundowners ( 1960 ), starring Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Peter Ustinov-based on his novel, did uncredited rewrite on script

One of his last roles was in the 1989-90 Broadway production of The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham, opposite Glynis Johns and Rex Harrison in Harrison's final role.

There have been four Broadway revivals, in 1928 at the Guild Theatre, 1956 at the Martin Beck Theatre and then the Morosco Theatre starring Glynis Johns, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Eli Wallach, Burgess Meredith, and Charles Laughton, who also directed, in 1980 at the Circle in the Square Theatre, and 2001 at the American Airlines Theatre, with Cherry Jones in the title role.