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What a memorable presence she was on screen. That smoky voice was to die for.

I had the pleasure of seeing her on Broadway at the Ambassador Theater in W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle in 1990 opposite Rex Harrison and Stewart Granger. It was a thrill to later meet them all at the stage door and get their autographs.

R.I.P.

Loved her in All Mine to Give from the novel The Day They Babies Away which is based on the real-life story of the author's father (played by The King and I's Rex Thompson) tasked with finding homes for himself and his five siblings on Christmas Eve after the sudden deaths of both his parents. Cameron Mitchell, Patty McCormack, Hope Emerson, Reta Shaw, Ernest Truex, Ellen Corby, and Rita Johnson were in it, too.

She was also terrific, of course, in Vacation from Marriage, No Highway in the Sky, The Sundowners, Mary Poppins, The Ref, and While You Were Sleeping among others.

Smoky voices have always killed me, and hers may have been my first.

Saw her initially in a movie called All Mine to Give -- a stone bummer of a tear-jerker that my parents, for some reason, inflicted on us when I was about 6 years old. Loved her from her TV series Glynis in the early 60s. Of course adored her as Mrs. Banks. Was privileged to hear her sing Send in the Clowns in her Tony-winning turn in A Little Night Music. Thought she was hilarious, years later, in The Ref. And, belatedly, caught up with her early British film work: The 49th Parallel, The Adventures of Tartu, Vacation from Marriage.

Oddly, don't all that much care for her Academy-nominated work in The Sundowners, a film that's a bit twee for my taste. But she left so much else along the way, it brings a pang to my heart to see her go.

Loved her. R.I.P.

She made it to 100.

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