Robert StevensonBecause the clashing powers of Walt Disney and P.L. Travers is the most infamous and soap opera-worthy aspect of the filming of Mary Poppins, we sometimes forget about its low-key d...

Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, P.L. TraversAuthorial Thunder from Down Under Mary Poppins was a book before it became a movie. And its author was, apparently, not the easiest woman to get along with. A w...

Walt Disney ProductionsMouse In The HouseDisney has a monopoly on family fun and whimsy. It's their thing. If you make a cartoon with a lot of chirping birds and cute bunnies waltzing through the w...

Trippy English Countryside FantasyThe 1960s audiences who saw Mary Poppins probably thought they were hallucinating. Mixing animation and live-action…? How could they even…? There'd been a few...

Richard Sherman; Robert ShermanThe Sherman Bros were the Drake of their day—if Drake specialized in composing scores for Disney movies and didn't ever rap. Our point is: they were important, and...

Everyone likes Mary Poppins. Everyone. Even Lin-Manuel Miranda. Ghostface Killah from The Wu Tang Clan. The writers of the Simpsons. Vast oceans of kindergartners, and vaster oceans of nostalg...