On Aug. 27, 1964, Disney unveiled the Julie Andrews family film at its Los Angeles premiere. By James Powers On Aug. 27, 1964, Disney unveiled its 139-minute family film Mary Poppins at its Los ...

Author P.L. Travers was notoriously wary of signing over the rights to her famous children’s character, Mary Poppins, to Walt Disney. In fact, an entire movie—2013’s Saving Mr. Banks—was made about ...

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 ...

What follows is the review of the original "Mary Poppins" film that appeared in the Sept. 25, 1964, edition of Newsday. A sequel, "Mary Poppins Returns," starring Emily Blunt as the nanny, hits ...

VINELAND – The high-flying Vineland High School production of “Mary Poppins” is featured in a PBS documentary that debuts Wednesday on NJTV. For those who can’t wait to see “I Can’t … I Have Rehearsal ...

It's so fun to revisit, as an adult, the things you loved as a child. From the schoolyard in your hometown that suddenly seems so small, to your favorite novel from college that means so much more now ...

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'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 Orlando ...

The mission seems impossible: To take a beloved movie that is, to borrow its own words, practically perfect in every way, and make a sequel 54 years later that’s bracingly fresh while staying true to ...

This article about “Mary Poppins Returns” first appeared in the TheWrap magazine’s Oscar Nominations Preview issue. Mary Poppins was a part of all their childhoods. Rob Marshall remembered it as the ...

In an op-ed from The New York Times, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, an English professor at Linfield College, argues that the story has some troubling, racist tones that, while originate in the original ...

Mary Poppins Returns, the sequel to the 1964 classic film that starred Julie Andrews in the title role, has plenty going for it. For one, it features Emily Blunt as Mary. Blunt plays Mary with her ...