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 ...

Part of the new film’s nostalgia, however, is bound up in a blackface performance tradition that persists throughout the Mary Poppins canon. Part of the new film’s nostalgia, however, is bound up in a ...

A spoonful of sugar! With maybe just a touch of strychnine. Oldsters, who were kids in 1964, may still recall the hoopla and hysteria around "Mary Poppins," released 60 years ago this August 27.

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 ...

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

“Mary Poppins Returns,” which picked up four Oscar nominations last week, is an enjoyably derivative film that seeks to inspire our nostalgia for the innocent fantasies of childhood, as well as the ...