Glynis Johns, ‘Mary Poppins’ Star Who First Sang Sondheim’s ’Send in the Clowns,' Dies at 100

Actress Glynis Johns is shown, on Sept. 11, 1982. Carlos Rene Perez/AP Photo

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. “Today’s a sad day for Hollywood,” Mr. Clem said. “She is the last of the last of old Hollywood.”