Mary Poppins is an icon. The children’s book character turned Disney legend even got her own Simpsons parody with a full episode featuring Shary Bobbins, who taught Bart and Lisa to do a “half-assed ...

Logan Kelly is a professional author, screenwriter, and proud cinemaphile. He studied screenwriting and film history while attending Valencia College, before moving to the New York Metro Area. When it ...

Mary Poppins is having a moment. The iconic kooky nanny brought to the big screen by Julie Andrews in 1964 has been revisited by Emily Blunt in a 2018 holiday charmer. But it was a St. Louis gal who ...

The film adaptation of Mary Poppins, and the new Mary Poppins Returns, honor her characters but create worlds of their own. So, just what did author P.L. Travers ...

A U.S. professor is deeming the classic 1964 film "Mary Poppins" racist, accusing Julie Andrews of "blacking up" her face with soot while dancing with chimney sweeps. In a New York Times op-ed called ...

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 ...

One of the most popular Disney movies of all time is capturing hearts in a whole new way: as a practically perfect musical! Based on the books by P.L. Travers and the classic Walt Disney film, Cameron ...