BURBANK, California (Reuters) - In the leafy, idyllic setting that is the Disney Studios lot, author P.L. Travers made life hell for writers and composers and Walt Disney himself in a movie that ...

How stubborn was Walt Disney? He spent 26 years wheedling Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers to sell him the film rights to her book — call it determination or bullying. Travers thought he was a hack ...

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 ...

Released to almost universal acclaim in 1964, “Mary Poppins” is one of Walt Disney’s most joyous creations. But, as depicted in the new movie “Saving Mr. Banks,” the process of putting “Poppins” ...

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 ...

It’s the happiest video on earth — or rather, online. The first trailer was released for the Walt Disney-Marry Poppins film “Saving Mr. Banks,” starring Tom Hanks as Mr. Disney. E! Online describes ...

“Saving Mr. Banks” screenwriter Kelly Marcel was a “Mary Poppins” pro as a kid compared to the pic’s co-star Colin Farrell. “It was definitely the film we watched every Christmas,” said Marcel at a ...

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 ...