How stubborn was Walt Disney? He spent 26 years wheedling Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers to sell him the film rights to her book — call it determination or bullying. Travers thought he was a hack ...

“Saving Mr. Banks” screenwriter Kelly Marcel was a “Mary Poppins” pro as a kid compared to the pic’s co-star Colin Farrell. “It was definitely the film we watched every Christmas,” said Marcel at a ...

I recently watched the Oscar-nominated film “Saving Mr. Banks,” which was about the making of the Disney movie “Mary Poppins.” I also watched the 40th anniversary edition of “Mary Poppins,” which my ...

Saving Mr. Banks (2013) is a biographical drama film that takes us behind the scenes of the iconic 1964 Disney production Mary Poppins and tells us the story of how the movie was developed and the ...

Mary Poppins is a decidedly odd children’s film. You may remember the bubbly songs, Julie Andrews’ relentless cheeriness and Dick Van Dyke’s horrendous Cockney accent, but do you remember how long it ...

BURBANK, California (Reuters) - In the leafy, idyllic setting that is the Disney Studios lot, author P.L. Travers made life hell for writers and composers and Walt Disney himself in a movie that ...

I wasn’t a very big fan of “Mary Poppins” growing up. The bird lady scared me. I never really understood how or why they jumped into the chalk drawing, or how Bert knew Mary Poppins for that matter.

The campaign for women’s votes may be one of the most significant events in modern history, yet few popular films have tackled it. There were films about suffrage during the silent era, while the ...

English actor Glynis Johns, who played the daffy suffragette mother Mrs. Banks in the classic film “Mary Poppins,” died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles, her manager Mitch Clem ...