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 ...

Mary Poppins had millions of children wishing they had a magical nanny to handle their chores and cure their ailments. Julie Andrews brought the character to life on the big screen and landed an ...

When Mary Poppins drifts in from the rooftops to land nimbly in front of the Banks family home each night at Sugden Theatre, her journey has been set in motion by hundreds of hours of Naples Players ...

GOOD MORNING: Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke will be back together in front of the cameras later this month. It’s for the DVD for the 40th anni of “Mary Poppins,” a film that received 13 Oscar ...

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

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.

Never need a reason, never need a rhyme: Mary Poppins is out of step with the times. That's according to an Oregon professor who wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times that asserts the 1964 film ...

Dick Van Dyke enjoyed a sweet moment of nostalgia on Monday as he shared a Disneyland day with his wife, Arlene Silver. The 97-year-old acting legend was serenaded by the Dapper Dans barbershop ...

While it's not "practically perfect in every way," Lyric Theatre takes ticketholders on a "Jolly Holiday" with everyone's favorite nanny with its new production of the song-and-dance spectacular "Mary ...