In 1934, the writer P.L. Travers introduced Mary Poppins, who quickly became the ideal of the no-nonsense British nanny for generations of children. The character was named for her tendency to pop ...

Mary Poppins first appeared in the pages of Australian author P.L. Travers's eight-book series of the same name, published in 1934. The character is inspired by Travers's real-life great aunt, Helen ...

As a film reviewer, a young British woman named P.L. Travers, writing about the movie “Snow White” in 1937, pronounced Walt Disney a shameless purveyor of cheeseball crap: “There is a profound ...

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 ...

For over 50 years, Mary Poppins was, to most of us, the sweet-faced Julie Andrews in her feature film debut. From the second she floated down on her umbrella to Cherry Tree Lane in the 1964 Disney ...

Disney is rife with reboots, but Mary Poppins Returns is decidedly a "sequel, not a remake" — as Lin-Manuel Miranda's Twitter is eager to remind fans. Not only that, but it's based on books you can ...

As the respective creators of Mickey Mouse and Mary Poppins, two of the most cheerful, beloved characters around, it’s odd to imagine studio head Walt Disney and author P.L. Travers quarreling. But ...

In the film “Saving Mr. Banks,” the children’s author P.L. Travers finds herself in tense negotiations with Walt Disney over the 1964 film version of Travers’ classic stories featuring the magical ...

When P.L. Travers died in 1996, I wrote a tribute in the Los Angeles Times and confessed that I have pressed copies of "Mary Poppins" on friends who, only familiar with the Disney version, responded ...

The 1949 TV adaptation was part of CBS’ “Studio One” omnibus series, a one-hour show scripted by Worthington Miner and with an all-American cast led by Mary Wickes (whose many credits include the 1942 ...

It’s a home that can only be described as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! “Mary Poppins” author P.L. Travers lived in this charming four-bedroom house in ...