Mary Poppins 1964

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 140 min

genre: fantasy

theme: musical

director: Robert Stevenson

Score: 8 / 10

Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers. The screenplay is by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, based on P. L. Travers's book series Mary Poppins. The film, which combines live-action and animation, stars Julie Andrews in her feature film debut as Mary Poppins, who visits a dysfunctional family in London and employs her unique brand of lifestyle to improve the family's dynamic. Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, and Glynis Johns are featured in supporting roles. The film was shot entirely at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, using painted London background scenes.

Plot

In 1910, Winifred Banks returns to her home in London after a suffragette rally ("Sister Suffragette") and learns that her children, Jane and Michael, have run away, "for the fourth time this week", which prompted their nanny to quit her job. That night, Winifred's strict and ambitious husband George returns home from his job at the bank ("The Life I Lead") and places a newspaper advertisement for a stern, no-nonsense nanny. Jane and Michael present their own advertisement for a kind, sympathetic nanny ("The Perfect Nanny"), but George rips up their letter and throws the scraps in the fireplace. A strong wind draws the scraps up through the chimney and into the sky.

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author	Bill Walsh Don DaGradi
award	Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Original Song Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
contentLocation	London
director	Robert Stevenson
editor	Cotton Warburton
events	dysfunctional family nanny
genre	action animation comedy fantasy live-action
keywords	a man has dreams a spoonful of sugar bank run bird food carousel cashier chim chim cher-ee chimney sweep death from laughter died laughing draw east end east end of london even feed the birds fidelity fiduciary bank horse race i love to laugh laugh let\'s go fly a kite mary poppins meet newspaper ad nonsense word parachute phone call run away sister suffragette stay awake step in time street painter street painting suffragette supercalifragilisticexpialidocious the life i lead the perfect nanny tuppence twopence walk young woman
musicBy	Irwin Kostal Richard Sherman Robert B. Sherman Sherman Brothers
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
producer	Walt Disney
productionCompany	Walt Disney Productions
publisher	Buena Vista Distribution Company, Inc.
recordedAt	The Julie Andrews Stage
theme	animated children's children's comedy musical musical comedy urban