She hated me, she hated Julie Andrews,” was Dick Van Dyke’s blunt assessment of PL Travers in the wake of Walt Disney’s ...

Dick Van Dyke as Bert/Mr. Dawes, Sr. and English actress Julie Andrews in the title role from 'Mary Poppins', (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The rating for “Mary Poppins,” the 1964 classic ...

What follows is the review of the original "Mary Poppins" film that appeared in the Sept. 25, 1964, edition of Newsday. A sequel, "Mary Poppins Returns," starring Emily Blunt as the nanny, hits ...

“Chim-chiminey, chim-chiminey, chim-chim cher-ee, when you’re with a sweep, you’re in glad company.” So sings Julie Andrews in a memorable moment from the classic movie “Mary Poppins,” but Andrews’ ...

"Mary Poppins" (1964) came out 57 years ago, and the long-awaited sequel was released in 2018. Dick Van Dyke played two characters in the original film, and he had a small role in the sequel. Disney ...

The 1964 film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke is now rated PG by the British Board of Film Classification. It’ll take more than a spoonful of sugar for the “discriminatory language” of 1964’s ...

Never need a reason, never need a rhyme: Mary Poppins is out of step with the times. That's according to an Oregon professor who wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times that asserts the 1964 film ...

'Mary Poppins' — a sequel starring Emily Blunt hits theaters Dec. 19 — topped the box office in 1964 (and earned an Oscar for star Julie Andrews), allowing Walt Disney to buy 27,000 acres near Orlando ...

The British film industry’s rating agency has decided to raise the rating of the 1964 classic film “Mary Poppins” to “PG” from “U,” suggesting that “discriminatory language” in the film warrants ...

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 ...