Little did you know that Walt Disney's 1964 film erased more than half of the Banks children in the family's leap to the screen. In P.L. Travers' original eight-book series, Michael and Jane Banks ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago, I was pleasantly surprised to see “Mary Poppins” was on television. There are a few movies that demand you to stop when you pass them while scrolling through the channels.

The story of how Walt Disney coaxed P.L. Travers, the creator of “Mary Poppins” and a soul as tough as old boots, into letting him turn her flying nanny into the star of a Disney movie … ...

If you skipped childhood, "Feed the Birds" is the song from the "Mary Poppins" movie in which Mary instructs the Banks children, Jane and Michael, in the joys of charity by singing about a beggar ...

Dick Van Dyke played two characters in "Mary Poppins," and he made an appearance in "Mary Poppins Returns." In addition to his leading role as Bert, the jovial chimney sweep, Dick Van Dyke ...

In an interview with Vanity Fair in 2022, Julie Andrews revealed, "He said, 'You know, you're very prim and proper on the outside, but I think Mary Poppins has a kind of secret life, maybe, and I ...

Award-winning Australian-born Stephanie Jones plays the title role in the tour of the musical Mary Poppins.

Richard M. Sherman, the Oscar-winning songwriter who partnered with his late brother to craft tunes for such Disney classics as Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Jungle Book, died ...