Saving Mr. Banks May 13, 2014
Posted by nrhatch in Books & Movies, Writing & Writers.comments closed
We enjoyed Saving Mr. Banks, the semi-true account of how Walt Disney obtained the movie rights to Mary Poppins from P.L. Travers.
An arduous journey to say the least.
Travers did NOT want Mary Poppins, her no-nonsense nanny, to do anything as frivolous as singing.
Or dancing. Or laughing. Or flirting.
And she didn’t approve of casting Julie Andrews as Ms. Poppins or Dick Van Dyke as Bert.
Travers didn’t like the idea of animated penguins dancing, and she abhorred made up words like “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”
Getting Mary Poppins to fly off the pages and onto the big screen was an uphill slog fraught with tension between Travers and Disney Studios.
But it was worth it!
Aah . . . that’s better!
Spirit Lights The Way 