DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. — Set in 1910, a nanny named Mary Poppins embarks on a series of magical adventures with the Banks children and her friend Bert. After rehearsing for nearly four months, the cast ...

“Because Dick Van Dyke, he is one of my favorite actors, but he did a very poor job with the accent,” Lee said. Van Dyke played Bert in the original 1964 Disney movie. Meanwhile, an actor who started ...

The Sherman brothers were struggling Hollywood songwriters when Walt Disney assigned them to his adaptation of “Mary Poppins.” Their tunes helped send the film aloft.

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