The recent death of Walt Disney songwriting legend Richard M. Sherman appeared to have closed the book on the history of classic Disney tunes, as Sherman, 95, was the last link to many of them ...

In 2013, Sherman was portrayed by actor Jason Schwartzman in the movie Saving Mr. Banks, which dramatized the making of Mary Poppins.

The brothers were portrayed in the 2013 film Saving Mr. Banks, which told the story behind the making of Mary Poppins.

The film was the top film at the box office in 1964, making a net profit of $28.5m (£10m) and ushering in a new golden age of original on-screen musicals, led principally by the Sherman Brothers.

The brothers Richard and Robert Sherman, who wrote the soundtrack, expected her to be a sweet old woman, she was 62 at the time, what happened was entirely different.

For 88-year-old Richard Sherman, the only person still surviving from that tense fortnight, watching Saving Mr Banks was hugely cathartic. “When he first read the script, he cried,” says Marcel.

Though “Saving Mr. Banks” promotes the same positive messages as most Disney movies, the film is neither saccharine nor hagiographic – schmaltzy music aside.

Now, in Disney’s “Saving Mr. Banks,” we have the studio’s. No one, needless to say, winds up face down in a swimming pool in the Disney version.

Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn't budge. He soon begins to ...

For their first encounter with the principle of compounding, many Americans have Walt Disney to thank. It is his and the Sherman brothers’ 1964 version of the musical Mary Poppins that includes ...

In an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from Saving Mr. Banks — out March 18 on Blu-ray and via the Disney Movies Anywhere digital service — the cast and crew came together on set to serenade ...

At issue in “Saving Mr. Banks” is what people a decade or two later would, of course, call selling out, the act of compromising vision for material gain.