People often think of the 1960s as the Walt Disney Company’s family-friendly golden age. The 1960s were ground zero for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixty years after its original release and the Mary Poppins cast is still remembered fondly. This Disney classic came out in 1964 and went on to win five Academy Awards, including for the song "Chim ...

P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson)—the irascible author of Mary Poppins—frets and complains bitterly throughout Saving Mr. Banks that her beloved story will lose its realistic edge in the hands of Walt ...

In the winter of 1933, in a thatched cottage in Sussex, England, a complicated woman named Pamela “P.L.” Travers began to write “Mary Poppins,” the first in a series of novels that would inspire the ...