12 Mary Poppins Facts That You've Never Known About. I Can't Believe #3 Is True!
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The iconic film turns 50 years old this year. Before you go back and relive the magic to celebrate this anniversary, make sure you read up on some little nuggets about this amazing film you DEFINITELY didn’t know before. It’ll change the way you view it...in the most delightful way!
1. It took 20 years to turn the book into a movie.
Author P.L. Travers refused to deal with Walt Disney, even though the movie maverick already promised his daughter he would make her favorite book into a film. Finally, in 1961, Travers agreed, mostly because she needed the money.
2. The struggle was depicted in the 2013 film, Saving Mr. Banks.
3. When Travers saw the movie, she absolutely hated it.
She hated the animated sequence with the penguins, the house the Banks family lived in, how the time period was changed, how Mary Poppins was pretty, and even the songs.
4. Angela Lansbury and Bette Davis were considered for the role of Mary Poppins before it ultimately went to Julie Andrews.
5. Dick Van Dyke's accent is considered one of the worst attempts in film history.
Not surprisingly, P.L. Travers loathed the accent as well.
6. Thirty songs were written for the film, but twenty were cut.
7. The song "A Spoonful of Sugar" was inspired by the polio vaccine.
Writer Robert Sherman was having a hard time coming up with a catchy song for Julie Andrews. Inspiration struck one night when his kids told him all about their polio vaccine. They said it didn’t hurt because it was placed on a sugar cube.
8. Walt Disney's favorite song ever was "Feed the Birds."
9. The snowglobe from the Feed the Birds sequence was almost thrown away! Disney archivist David Smith hunted it down to a janitor's closet.
The janitor had kept it because he saw it in the trash, and thought it was too pretty to throw away.
10. Disney won five out of thirteen Academy Awards for Mary Poppins that year.
It was their most successful night at that awards show ever.
11. The original nanny for the children was also the Bride of Frankenstein.
12. Some of the nannies at the beginning of the film were actually men dressed as women.
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