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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In SAVING MR. BANKS, the film based upon taking MARY POPPINS from the page to the ...

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 ...

At the top of the list of dissatisfied authors is P.L. Travers (pictured), who was so upset with Walt Disney’s adaption of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...