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1963 Israel KNOCK ON WOOD Movie FILM POSTER Hebrew DANNY KAYE Jewish JUDAICA:
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DESCRIPTION:Here for sale is a 55 years old EXCEPTIONALY RARE and ORIGINAL POSTER for the ISRAEL 1963 re-release ofthe DANNY KAYE legendary MUSICAL film , Prizes winning \"KNOCK ON WOOD\" . Starrig the greatDANNY KAYE .The CULT film projection took placein the small rural town of NATHANYA( Also Natania ) in ERETZ ISRAEL. The cinema-movie hall \" CINEMA SHARON\" ( A legendary local Israeli Cinema Paradiso ) was printing manualy its own posters , And thus you can be certain that this surviving copy is ONE OF ITS KIND. Fully DATED 1963 . Text in HEBREW and ENGLISH . The ISRAELI distributors of the film have given it an INTERESTING and quite archaic and amusing advertising and promotingaccompany text. A bonus to the good buyer \" 7 BRIDES For 7 BROTHERS\" in matinee show.The condition is very good. Folded once.Clean. GIANT size around 28\" x 38\" ( Not accurate ) . Printed in red and blue onwhite paper. ( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images ) Poster will be sent rolled in a special protective rigid sealed tube.

AUTHENTICITY : Thisposter is guaranteed ORIGINAL from1963 ( Fully dated ), NOT a reprint or a recently made immitation., Itholds alife long GUARANTEE for its AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.

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Knock on Wood is a 1954 comedy starring Danny Kaye and Mai Zetterling. Other actors in the film include Torin Thatcher, David Burns, and Leon Askin. The film was written and directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, with songs by Kaye\'s wife, Sylvia Fine.Jerry Morgan (Kaye) is a ventriloquist who is having trouble with love: just when his relationship with a woman gets around to marriage, his dummy turns jealous and spoils everything. Jerry\'s manager Marty threatens to quit unless Jerry sees a psychiatrist, Ilse Nordstrom (Zetterling), who tries to discover the source of his problem. The two of them eventually fall in love.At the same time, Jerry becomes unwittingly intertwined with spies and has to run from the police. In his escape, he finds himself impersonating a British car salesman, trying to demonstrate a new convertible with loads of bells and whistles. Later on, he finds himself on stage in the middle of the performance of an exotic ballet.Production notesThe film features dialogue with linguistic play (particularly the names of the dummies \"Clarence\" and \"Terrence\" and the Slavic names of the spies) which would also be a feature of Kaye\'s later film The Court Jester (likewise written and directed by Frank and Panama). The title song \"Knock on Wood\" should not be confused with \"Everybody Thinks I\'m Crazy\" from the 1941 cartoon entitled Woody Woodpecker, starring the character of the same name; or the song \"Knock on Wood\" from the 1942 film, Casablanca (with music by M.K. Jerome and lyrics by Jack Scholl). Kaye performed renditions of both the title song from Knock on Wood and \"The Woody Woodpecker Song,\" which are found on the album The Best of Danny Kaye [Spectrum, 2000]. Cast Danny Kaye as Jerry Morgan and his father Mai Zetterling as Doctor Ilse Nordstrom Torin Thatcher as Godfrey Langston, the film evil David Burns as Marty Brown, Jerrys Manager Leon Askin as Lazlo Gromek, a spion Abner Biberman as Maurice Papinek, a spion Otto Waldis as Brodnik, a spion Gavin Gordon as a Car Salesman Steven Geray as Doctor Krüger Diana Adams as Princess Maya Patricia Denise as Jerrys Mother Virginia Houston as Audrey Greene Paul England as the Chief Inspector Wilton Johnstone White as Langstons Secretary Henry Brandon as the Man with a Trenchcoat Lewis Martin as Inspector Crawford. Inimitable, multi-talented entertainer Danny Kaye first gained fame on Broadway by upstaging the great Gertrude Lawrence in Lady in the Dark in 1941 with an unforgettable rendition of the \"Tchaikovsky,\" in which he rapidly fired off the names of 54 Russian composers in 38 seconds. Born David Daniel Kaminski, a garment worker\'s son in Brooklyn, New York, Kaye left school at age 13 to work as a mischievous busboy in the popular \"borscht belt\" resorts of the Catskill Mountains. While endeavoring to break into vaudeville and nightclub acts as a singer and dancer, Kaye also occasionally worked as a soda jerk and an insurance salesman. In 1939, he made his Broadway debut in Straw Hat Revue with Imogene Coca. Following the run of Lady in the Dark, he began making a series of educational films during the \'30s. In 1943, he signed a movie contract with producer Sam Goldwyn, and became a star when he appeared in Up in Arms (1944). A talented mimic, physical comedian, singer and dancer, he was unlike any performer who had come before him. Kaye specialized in playing multiple roles or personalities in such films as Wonder Man (1945), The Kid From Brooklyn (1946), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), and On the Riviera (1951). Probably his best films are The Court Jester (1956), which contains the unforgettable \"pellet with the poison\'s in the vestle with the pestle\" routine, based on similar but less effective bits in earlier films, and White Christmas (1954). His wife, composer-lyricist Sylvia Fine, wrote most of his best gags and patter numbers throughout his career. Though tremendously popular during the mid-\'40s through the \'50s -- most particularly in Great Britain, where played to record-breaking crowds in the Palladium in 1948 and 1949 (he even made personal visits to Buckingham Palace) -- his bright star began to wane in the late 1950s when he began spending most of his time working for UNICEF, and traveling the world-over to entertain impoverished children. In the early to mid-\'60s, he starred in The Danny Kaye Show, a comedy-variety television series for which he won an Emmy in 1964. He also found time to conduct symphony orchestras and appear in Two by Two on Broadway. In 1955, Kaye was awarded an honorary Oscar; the Motion Picture Academy also awarded him the Jean Hersholt Award in 1982 for his selfless work with UNICEF. With the exception of the brilliant The Court Jester, Knock on Wood must rank as the best of Danny Kaye\'s movie vehicles. Capitalizing on the star\'s recent successful engagement in London, the film casts Kaye as a neurotic American ventriloquist performing in England and Europe. In a parody of the 1946 thriller Dead of Night, Kaye is unable to control the words coming out of his dummy, resulting in a near-nervous breakdown. On the advice of his manager (David Burns), Kaye seeks out the help of a psychiatrist, who turns out to be beautiful Mai Zetterling. But first, he heads to a local repair shop to pick up one of his dummies. What Kaye doesn\'t know is that a set of stolen blueprints for a top-secret weapon have been secreted into his dummy\'s head. Before he knows what\'s happening, our hero is up to his ears in spies, counterspies, and corpses. Falsely accused of murder, Kaye spends the rest of the film adopting one disguise after another to elude both the authorities and the various enemy agents roaming about. Filled to overflowing with musical and comedy highlights, Knock on Wood includes the famous \"under the table\" bit wherein Kaye finds himself literally between two warring spy factions, and a climactic ballet sequence reminiscent of (and superior to) the comic-opera finale of Kaye\'s Wonder Man (1945). And of course, the audience is treated to the tongue-twisting patter songs written for Kaye by his wife Sylvia Fine. THE happy news this morning is that the genuine Danny Kaye is back in circulation, on an appropriate and recognizable merry-go-round. As an unlucky vaudeville performer in the Dena production, \"Knock on Wood,\" which came like a breath of Shubert Alley into the Capitol yesterday, he has combed the last crumb of Danish pastry (vide \"Hans Christian Andersen\") out of his hair and is bouncing around with all the frenzy of the clown that fate meant him to be.Nothing inhibits the great Danny in this liberally farcical tale that Norman Panama and Melvin Frank have typewritten, produced and directed for him. He works a ventriloquist\'s dummy, sleep-walks into a lady\'s hotel room, takes a bath in a shower reserved for \"Damen\" and gets involved in a plot with continental spies.In mad flight from these villainous creatures—and likewise from the London police, who have made the disquieting discovery of a couple of bulky corpses in his room—he does quick-change impersonations of an Irish celebrant in a crowded pub, a veddy British motor car salesman and a drag-tail misfit in a Russian ballet. In each of these bits of frank buffoonery, he is fit, finished, subtle and superb. There isn\'t a mimic in the business who can out-mime Mr. Kaye.That bit in the pub, with him staggering among a chorus of lush Hibernians and bawling his long-bowsprited head off to a song called \"Monahan O\'Han\" is a darling exercise in high-class kidding; and the way he demonstrates a low-slung car with a mess of mechanical accessories is top-quality sight-gag burlesque, considering the combination with it of his parody of a Britisher\'s poise.But the purely fortuitous tangle of the fleeing ventriloquist with the ballet in an item full of Slavic turmoil finds Mr. Kaye at his best. Costumed in droopy drawers and fur cap to look like a scarecrow of the steppes and shivering with fear and desperation in the spotlight\'s piercing glare, he does a hilarious routine of fumbling and faking a dance. It is farce on the old Chaplin level—deliberately, satirically grotesque. Diana Adams as a ballerina plays straight to it beautifully.Naturally, all is not brilliance in this pleasantly Technicolored film. The authors-directors-producers take a long time to get it off the ground. For a while, it appears they were undecided whether to make it a comedy-romance about a neurotic dummy-jockey and a lady psychiatrist. And in this phase of the picture, the going is rather slow, despite the refined cooperation of Mai Zeitterling, a lovely young Swedish actress who is making her debut in American films.But once they have cleared up that problem and tossed Mr. Kaye to the spies—played archly by Torin Thatcher, Leon Askin and Abner Biberman—the riot begins in earnest, and from then on its touch and go. Mr. Kaye is given the material and the green light. He takes it from there.It might be said that the song numbers, written by Sylvia Fine, are among her lesser inspirations, with the exception of \"Monahan O\'Han,\" but that doesn\'t have to be mentioned in too loud or insistent a voice. There are only two others, \"All About You\" and the inevitable title song, done as an old vaudeville number.It\'s the clowning that counts in this film. - Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987)[1][2][3] was an American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire nonsense songs.Kaye starred in 17 movies, notably The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), Hans Christian Andersen (1952), White Christmas (1954), and The Court Jester (1956). His films were popular, especially his bravura performances of patter songs and favorites such as \"Inchworm\" and \"The Ugly Duckling\". He was the first ambassador-at-large of UNICEF in 1954 and received the French Legion of Honor in 1986 for his years of work with the organization.[4]David Daniel Kaminsky was born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn on January 18, 1911 (though he would later say 1913).[1][2][3] Jacob and Clara Nemerovsky Kaminsky and their two sons, Larry and Mac, left Yekaterinoslav two years before his birth; he was the only son born in the United States.[5] He attended Public School 149 in East New York, Brooklyn—which eventually was renamed to honor him[6]—where he began entertaining his classmates with songs and jokes,[7] before moving to Thomas Jefferson High School, though he never graduated.[8] His mother died when he was in his early teens. Clara enjoyed the impressions and humor of her son and always had words of encouragement for him; her death was a loss for the young Kaye.Not long after his mother\'s death, Kaye and his friend Louis ran away to Florida. Kaye sang while Louis played the guitar; the pair eked out a living for a while. When Kaye returned to New York, his father did not pressure him to return to school or work, giving his son the chance to mature and discover his own abilities.[9] Kaye said he had wanted to be a surgeon as a young boy, but there was no chance of the family affording a medical-school education.[5][10] He held a succession of jobs after leaving school, as a soda jerk, insurance investigator, and office clerk. Most ended with his being fired. He lost the insurance job when he made an error that cost the insurance company $40,000. The dentist who hired him to look after his office at lunch hour did the same when he found Kaye using his drill on the office woodwork.[5][11] He learned his trade in his teenage years in the Catskills as a tummler in the Borscht Belt,[7] and for four seasons at the White Roe resort.[12]Kaye\'s first break came in 1933 when he joined the \"Three Terpsichoreans\", a vaudeville dance act. They opened in Utica, New York, with him using the name Danny Kaye for the first time.[7] The act toured the United States, then performed in Asia with the show La Vie Paree.[13] The troupe left for a six-month tour of the Far East on February 8, 1934. While they were in Osaka, Japan, a typhoon hit the city. The hotel where Kaye and his colleagues stayed suffered heavy damage; a piece of the hotel\'s cornice was hurled into Kaye\'s room by the strong wind, nearly killing him. By performance time that evening, the city was in the grip of the storm. There was no power, and the audience was restless and nervous. To calm them, Kaye went on stage, holding a flashlight to illuminate his face, and sang every song he could recall as loudly as he was able.[5] The experience of trying to entertain audiences who did not speak English inspired him to the pantomime, gestures, songs, and facial expressions that eventually made his reputation.[7][11] Sometimes it was necessary just to get a meal. Kaye\'s daughter, Dena, tells a story her father related about being in a restaurant in China and trying to order chicken. Kaye flapped his arms and clucked, giving the waiter an imitation of a chicken. The waiter nodded in understanding, bringing Kaye two eggs. His interest in cooking began on the tour.[7][13]When Kaye returned to the United States, jobs were in short supply and he struggled for bookings. One job was working in a burlesque revue with fan dancer Sally Rand. After the dancer dropped a fan while trying to chase away a fly, Kaye was hired to watch the fans so they were always held in front of her.[7][11]Career Danny Kaye made his film debut in a 1935 comedy short Moon Over Manhattan. In 1937 he signed with New York–based Educational Pictures for a series of two-reel comedies. Kaye usually played a manic, dark-haired, fast-talking Russian in these low-budget shorts, opposite young hopefuls June Allyson or Imogene Coca. The Kaye series ended abruptly when the studio shut down in 1938. He was working in the Catskills in 1937, using the name Danny Kolbin.[14][15] Kaye\'s next venture was a short-lived Broadway show, with Sylvia Fine as the pianist, lyricist and composer. The Straw Hat Revue opened on September 29, 1939, and closed after ten weeks, but critics took notice of Kaye\'s work.[5][16] The reviews brought an offer for both Kaye and his bride, Sylvia, to work at La Martinique, a New York City nightclub. Kaye performed with Sylvia as his accompanist. At La Martinique, playwright Moss Hart saw Danny perform, which led to Hart casting him in his hit Broadway comedy Lady in the Dark.[5][11]Kaye scored a triumph in 1941 in Lady in the Dark. His show-stopping number was \"Tchaikovsky\", by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin, in which he sang the names of a string of Russian composers at breakneck speed, seemingly without taking a breath.[17][18] In the next Broadway season, he was the star of a show about a young man who is drafted, called Let\'s Face It!.[19]His feature film debut was in producer Samuel Goldwyn\'s Technicolor 1944 comedy Up in Arms,[20] a remake of Goldwyn\'s Eddie Cantor comedy Whoopee! (1930).[21] Kaye\'s rubber face and patter were a hit,[citation needed] and rival producer Robert M. Savini cashed in by compiling three of Kaye\'s Educational Pictures shorts into a patchwork feature, The Birth of a Star (1945).[22] Studio mogul Goldwyn wanted Kaye\'s prominent nose fixed to look less Jewish,[12][23] Kaye refused. He did allow his red hair to be dyed blonde, apparently because it looked better in Technicolor.[23]Kaye starred in a radio program, The Danny Kaye Show, on CBS in 1945–46.[24] The cast included Eve Arden, Lionel Stander and Big Band leader Harry James, and it was scripted by radio notable Goodman Ace and playwright-director Abe Burrows.The program\'s popularity rose quickly. Before a year, he tied with Jimmy Durante for fifth place in the Radio Daily popularity poll.[11] Kaye was asked to participate in a USO tour following the end of World War II. It meant he would be absent from his radio show for nearly two months at the beginning of the season. Kaye\'s friends filled in, with a different guest host each week.[25] Kaye was the first American actor to visit postwar Tokyo; He\'d toured there some ten years before with the vaudeville troupe.[26][27] When Kaye asked to be released from his radio contract in mid-1946, he agreed not to accept a regular radio show for one year and limited guest appearances on radio programs of others.[25][28] Many of the show\'s episodes survive today, notable for Kaye\'s opening \"signature\" patter.[11]\"Git gat gittle, giddle-di-ap, giddle-de-tommy, riddle de offerdle de roop, da-reep, fa-san, skeedle de woo-da, fiddle de wada, reep!\"Kaye was sufficiently popular to inspire imitations:The 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon Book Revue had a sequence with Daffy Duck impersonating Kaye singing \"Carolina in the Morning\" with the Russian accent that Kaye affected from time to time.Satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer\'s 1953 song \"Lobachevsky\" was based on a number that Kaye had done, about the Russian director Constantin Stanislavski, with the affected Russian accent. Lehrer mentioned Kaye in an opening monologue, citing him as an \"idol since childbirth\".Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster fashioned a short-lived superhero title, Funnyman, taking inspiration from Kaye\'s persona.Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is known for films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), On the Riviera (1951) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood (1954), White Christmas (1954, in a role intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O\'Connor), The Court Jester (1956), and Merry Andrew (1958). Kaye starred in two pictures based on biographies, Hans Christian Andersen (1952) the Danish story-teller, and The Five Pennies (1959) about jazz pioneer Red Nichols. His wife, writer/lyricist Sylvia Fine, wrote many tongue-twisting songs Danny Kaye was famous for.[10][29] She was an associate producer.[30] Some of Kaye\'s films included the theme of doubles, two people who look identical (both Danny Kaye) being mistaken for each other, to comic effect.Kaye teamed with the popular Andrews Sisters (Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne) on Decca Records in 1947, producing the number-three Billboard smash hit \"Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)\". The success of the pairing prompted both acts to record through 1950, producing rhythmically comical fare as \"The Woody Woodpecker Song\" (based on the bird from the Walter Lantz cartoons, and a Billboard hit for the quartet), \"Put \'em in a Box, Tie \'em with a Ribbon (And Throw \'em in the Deep Blue Sea),\" \"The Big Brass Band from Brazil,\" \"It\'s a Quiet Town (In Crossbone County),\" \"Amelia Cordelia McHugh (Mc Who?),\" \"Ching-a-ra-sa-sa\", and a duet by Danny and Patty of \"Orange Colored Sky\". The acts teamed for two yuletide favorites: a frantic, harmonic rendition of \"A Merry Christmas at Grandmother\'s House (Over the River and Through the Woods)\", and a duet by Danny & Patty, \"All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth\"[31]While his wife wrote Kaye\'s material, there was much that was unwritten, springing from the mind of Danny Kaye, often while performing. Kaye had one character he never shared with the public; Kaplan, the owner of an Akron, Ohio rubber company, came to life only for family and friends. His wife Sylvia described the Kaplan character:[32]He doesn\'t have any first name. Even his wife calls him just Kaplan. He\'s an illiterate pompous character who advertises his philanthropies. Jack Benny or Dore Schary might say, \"Kaplan, why do you hate unions so?\" If Danny feels like doing Kaplan that night, he might be off on Kaplan for two hours.When he appeared at the London Palladium in 1948, he \"roused the Royal family to laughter and was the first of many performers who have turned British variety into an American preserve.\" Life magazine described his reception as \"worshipful hysteria\" and noted that the royal family, for the first time, left the royal box to watch from the front row of the orchestra.[33][34][35] He related that he had no idea of the familial connections when the Marquess of Milford Haven introduced himself after a show and said he would like his cousins to see Kaye perform.[18] Kaye stated that he never returned to the venue because there was no way to re-create the magic of that time.[36] Kaye had an invitation to return to London for a Royal Variety Performance in November of the same year.[37] When the invitation arrived, Kaye was busy with The Inspector General (which had a working title of Happy Times). Warners stopped the film to allow their star to attend.[38] When his Decca co-workers The Andrews Sisters began their engagement at the London Palladium on the heels of Kaye\'s successful 1948 appearance there, the trio was well received and David Lewin of the Daily Express declared, \"The audience gave the Andrews Sisters the Danny Kaye roar!\"[31]He hosted the 24th Academy Awards in 1952. The program was broadcast on radio. Telecasts of the Oscar ceremony came later. During the 1950s, Kaye visited Australia, where he played \"Buttons\" in a production of Cinderella in Sydney. In 1953, Kaye started a production company, Dena Pictures, named for his daughter. Knock on Wood was the first film produced by his firm. The firm expanded into television in 1960 under the name Belmont Television.[39][40]Kaye entered television in 1956 on the CBS show See It Now with Edward R. Murrow.[41] The Secret Life of Danny Kaye combined his 50,000-mile, ten-country tour as UNICEF ambassador with music and humor.[42][43] His first solo effort was in 1960 with an hour special produced by Sylvia and sponsored by General Motors; with similar specials in 1961 and 1962.[5] He hosted a variety hour on CBS television, The Danny Kaye Show, from 1963 to 1967, which won four Emmy awards and a Peabody award.[44][45] Beginning in 1964, he acted as television host to the CBS telecasts of MGM\'s The Wizard of Oz. Kaye did a stint as a What\'s My Line? Mystery Guest on the Sunday night CBS-TV quiz program. Kaye was later a guest panelist on that show. He also appeared on the NBC interview program Here\'s Hollywood.In the 1970s, Kaye tore a ligament in his leg in the run of the Richard Rodgers musical Two by Two, but went on with the show, appearing with his leg in a cast and cavorting on stage in a wheelchair.[44][46] He had done much the same on his television show in 1964 when his right leg and foot were burned from a cooking accident. Camera shots were planned so television viewers did not see Kaye in his wheelchair.[47]In 1976, he played Mister Geppetto in a television musical adaptation of The Adventures of Pinocchio with Sandy Duncan in the title role. Kaye portrayed Captain Hook opposite Mia Farrow in a musical version of Peter Pan featuring songs by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse. It was shown on NBC-TV in December 1976, the Hallmark Hall of Fame series. He later guest-starred in episodes of The Muppet Show, The Cosby Show[48] and in the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone.In many films, as well as on stage, Kaye proved to be an able actor, singer, dancer and comedian. He showed his serious side as Ambassador for UNICEF and in his dramatic role in the memorable TV film Skokie, when he played a Holocaust survivor.[44] Before his death in 1987, Kaye conducted an orchestra during a comical series of concerts organized for UNICEF fundraising. Kaye received two Academy Awards: an Academy Honorary Award in 1955 and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1982.[17] Also that year he received the Screen Actors Guild Annual Award.[17]Kaye was enamored of music. While he claimed an inability to read music, he was said to have perfect pitch. Kaye\'s ability with an orchestra was mentioned by Dimitri Mitropoulos, then conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. After Kaye\'s appearance, Mitropoulos remarked, \"Here is a man who is not musically trained, who cannot even read music, and he gets more out of my orchestra than I have.\"[8] Kaye was invited to conduct symphonies as charity fundraisers[10][17] and was the conductor of the all-city marching band at the season opener of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1984. Over his career he raised over US $5,000,000 in support of musician pension funds.[49]In 1980, Kaye hosted and sang in the 25th Anniversary of Disneyland celebration, and hosted the opening celebration for Epcot in 1982 (EPCOT Center at the time), both were aired on prime-time American television.Glynis Johns (born 5 October 1923) is a British stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer. She is best known for creating the role of Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award, and for playing Winifred Banks in Walt Disney\'s musical motion picture box office smash Mary Poppins. In both roles, she originated songs written specifically for her, including \"Send in the Clowns,\" composed by Stephen Sondheim, and \"Sister Suffragette,\" written by the Sherman Brothers.Johns was born in Pretoria, South Africa, the daughter of Alys Maude (née Steele-Payne), a pianist, and Mervyn Johns (1899–1992), the British stage and film actor.[1] Her roots are in West Wales, and she was born in Pretoria while her parents were performing on tour there. She attended Clifton High School in Bristol for a short time.[citation needed] Her ancestors on the Johns side are recorded as living at the farm Glanmorlais Uchaf, Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire in 1701.[citation needed]CareerJohns made her first stage appearance in Buckie\'s Bears as a child ballerina at the Garrick Theatre in 1935. She made her 1938 film debut in the movie version of Winifred Holtby\'s novel South Riding. In 1944, she appeared with her father in Halfway House and in 1948 starred as a mermaid in Miranda (Johns later reprised the role in a 1954 sequel, Mad About Men). In 1952, she co-starred in the movie version of Arnold Bennett\'s novel The Card. She was voted by British exhibitors the tenth most popular local star at the box office in 1951 and 1952.[2][3]She made a successful transition to Hollywood, appearing in Personal Affair (1953) starring Gene Tierney and in The Court Jester (1956) as Danny Kaye\'s love interest. The following year, she starred in the especially sad Christmas film All Mine to Give. Johns received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the 1960 film The Sundowners.One of her best-known film roles was that of Winifred Banks, the children\'s mother, a suffragette, in Mary Poppins (1964). Her last film appearance was in the 1999 film Superstar.[4]Johns also appeared on television and on stage, most memorably in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim\'s musical A Little Night Music. The song \"Send in the Clowns\" was reportedly written with her in mind. In 1973, she won a Tony award for her role in the musical. She later appeared in London in Cause Célèbre by Terence Rattigan. She played opposite Rex Harrison in his final acting role in a Broadway revival of W. Somerset Maugham\'s play The Circle in 1990. (Harrison\'s death in his New York apartment from cancer ended the show\'s run.) Johns starred in the premiere of Horton Foote\'s A Coffin in Egypt in 1998 at the Bay Street Theatre as Myrtle Bledsoe.[5]Johns was cast in 1961 in the ABC/Warner Brothers crime drama, The Roaring 20s. She portrayed Kitty O\'Moyne, an Irish immigrant who falls overboard into the harbor as she arrives in the United States. Tim McCool, played by Philip Carey, rescues her, and the two fall in love. Tim, however, is mixed up with gangsters.[6]In the 1962–1963 television season, Johns guest starred in the CBS anthology series The Lloyd Bridges Show. In the fall of 1963, she and Keith Andes starred as a married couple in her eponymous CBS television series Glynis, in which she appears as a mystery writer and Andes portrays a criminal defense attorney. The program was cancelled after thirteen episodes.From 1988 to 1989, Johns played Trudie Pepper, a senior citizen living in an Arizona retirement community, in the sitcom Coming of Age, opposite Alan Young, Phyllis Newman, and Paul Dooley; the show lasted one season on CBS.Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, DBE (born 16 October 1925) is an Anglo-American actress and singer who has appeared in theatre, television, and films. Her career has spanned seven decades, much of it based in the United States, and her work has attracted international attention.Lansbury was born in central London to actress Moyna MacGill and politician Edgar Lansbury. In 1940, she moved to New York City in the United States, where she studied acting. Proceeding to Hollywood, Los Angeles in 1942, she signed to MGM and got her first film roles, in Gaslight (1944) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), earning two Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe Award. She appeared in eleven further MGM films, mostly in minor roles, and after her contract ended in 1952 she began supplementing her cinematic work with theatrical appearances. Although her appearance in the film adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate (1962) was widely acclaimed, she only gained theatrical stardom for her starring role in the Broadway musical Mame (1966). Relocating from California to County Cork, Ireland in 1970, she continued with a variety of theatrical and cinematic appearances throughout that decade.Moving to television, in 1984 Lansbury achieved widespread fame as the fictional writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the American murder mystery series Murder, She Wrote, which ran for twelve seasons until 1996, becoming one of the longest-running detective drama series in television history. She assumed ownership of the series and was executive producer for the final four seasons. She also moved into voice work, thereby contributing to animated films like Beauty and the Beast (1991). Since then, she has toured prolifically in a variety of international productions, and continued to make occasional film appearances.Lansbury has won five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes and has been nominated for numerous other industry awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions, and various Primetime Emmy Awards on eighteen occasions. On November 16, 2013, Lansbury received an Honorary Oscar after seventy years\' work in the motion picture industry.[2] 2871