By James Powers On Aug. 27, 1964, Disney unveiled its 139-minute family film Mary Poppins at its Los Angeles premiere. The blockbuster went on to earn 13 Oscar nominations at the 37th Academy ...

Long resistant to film adaptations of her Mary Poppins books, P.L. Travers finally succumbed to the entreaties of Walt Disney, and the result is often considered the finest of Disney's personally ...

This is exactly what happened to me when I re-watched the 1964 Mary Poppins movie (you know, the one with Julie Andrews) with my 6- and 8-year-olds. I found out that I still remembered the words ...

Walt Disney tapped her to co-star in his 1964 film “Marry Poppins” with Julie Andrews, 88, and Dick Van Dyke, 98. She played Mrs. Banks, who recruits the nanny Mary Poppins (Andrews ...

“Mary Poppins (1964) includes two uses of the discriminatory term ‘hottentots,’” a BBFC spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. “While Mary Poppins has a historical context, the use ...

Mary Poppins' — a sequel starring Emily Blunt hits theaters Dec. 19 — topped the box office in 1964 (and earned an Oscar for star Julie Andrews), allowing Walt Disney to buy 27,000 acres near ...

Mary Poppins’ age rating has been raised from ... changed because of “discriminatory language”, the BBFC said. The 1964 film, starring Dame Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, uses the colonial ...

who illustrated the Mary Poppins books for half a century, providing the whimsical nanny’s style that was adopted for Julie Andrews in the 1964 motion picture. Mary Eleanor Jessie Shepard was ...

But playing Jane Banks in Mary Poppins was all high-flying ... Dotrice and Matthew Garber in 1964. Karen Dotrice in 2004. After Poppins wrapped, it was back to England and public school.

they are pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the magical Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews). Embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with Mary and her Cockney performer friend, Bert (Dick Van ...