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 ...

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 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 ...

The Los Angeles Times has obtained rare audio excerpts of MARY POPPINS' author P.L. Travers' meetings with Disney's Don DaGradi, Richard and Robert Sherman from the early 1960s. Check it out bleow! In ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

P. L. Travers,96, the woman who created the much-loved fictional character Mary Poppins, died at her London home Tuesday, friends said yesterday. “Mary Poppins,” published in 1934, was was the first ...