Rob Marshall said he could "only think of one person" to play the magical nanny. Mary Poppins, the magical whimsical nanny, is back on Cherry Tree Lane after 54 years in the sequel “Mary Poppins ...

Director Rob Marshall said the penguins in the sequel have "more personality." Director Rob Marshall loved the 1964 Mary Poppins and wanted to include hand-drawn animation mixed with live action in ...

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 ...

Author P.L. Travers was notoriously wary of signing over the rights to her famous children’s character, Mary Poppins, to Walt Disney. In fact, an entire movie—2013’s Saving Mr. Banks—was made about ...

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The titular character, Mary Poppins (Hannah Faith Davis) is a magical and practically perfect nanny who arrives to care for Jane (Kaylee Sullivant & Kathryn Legg) and Michael (Jai Durvasula and Luke ...

I can confirm the new production of the Tony Award-winning musical “Mary Poppins” at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is indeed a sweet, heartwarming treat for the holidays. Liza Piccoli, as the ...

“She hated me, she hated Julie Andrews,” was Dick Van Dyke’s blunt assessment of PL Travers in the wake of Walt Disney’s triumphant 1964 adaptation of the author’s 1934 novel Mary Poppins. For all its ...