The opening credits are quite similar to the original film, as they portray images of London set to the film's instrumental soundtrack. If you look close enough during one of the opening scenes, you ...

In 1934, the writer P.L. Travers introduced Mary Poppins, who quickly became the ideal of the no-nonsense British nanny for generations of children. The character was named for her tendency to pop ...

Fans of the classic Disney film Mary Poppins may be disappointed to learn that its source material contains no dancing penguins. There’s little mention of the tap-dancing chimney sweep Bert, and Mr.

According to the documentary, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: The Making of Mary Poppins, Disney personally flew to London in 1959 and met with Travers to once ...

Turns out Mary Poppins isn't as practically perfect as we all thought. Sure, her new film is flying like a nanny in a gusty wind at the box office and, yes, we loved it. But even magical au pairs from ...

2.After working on adapting the book for two years, P.L. Travers came to Disney Studios and apparently "didn't like anything" that was written. In recordings and sketches from a 1961 meeting, Travers ...

Mary Poppins was always a cultural oddity. Created by P. L. Travers in a series of books begun during the Depression, she was enchanting to generations of children for her magic powers—she could fly ...

The goofy star of Mary Poppins becomes a centenarian on Saturday. And what a precocious performer he has proved, sustaining scrappy mischief through seven decades of mainstream entertainment ...

She's practically perfect in every way. Obviously we are talking about Mary Poppins, the airborne, umbrella-wielding, supercalifragilistic nanny who has sung her way into the hearts of several ...