BURBANK, California (Reuters) - In the leafy, idyllic setting that is the Disney Studios lot, author P.L. Travers made life hell for writers and composers and Walt Disney himself in a movie that ...

Saving Mr. Banks (2013) is a biographical drama film that takes us behind the scenes of the iconic 1964 Disney production Mary Poppins and tells us the story of how the movie was developed and the ...

Long resistant to film adaptations of her Mary Poppins books, P.L. Travers finally succumbed to the entreaties of Walt Disney, and the result is often considered the finest of Disney's personally ...

The 78-year-old "flew in from the East" to help celebrate Disney's Oscar hopeful. By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards It has been a rollercoaster of a week for the team behind Disney’s Saving ...

I wasn’t a very big fan of “Mary Poppins” growing up. The bird lady scared me. I never really understood how or why they jumped into the chalk drawing, or how Bert knew Mary Poppins for that matter.

"SAVING MR. BANKS"..P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson), left; Walt Disney (Tom Hanks), right, in Disney's "Saving Mr. Banks"...Ph: François Duhamel..©Disney Enterprises ...

Sixty years after its original release and the Mary Poppins cast is still remembered fondly. This Disney classic came out in 1964 and went on to win five Academy Awards, including for the song "Chim ...

Glynis Johns, the upbeat leading lady with the British charm who starred as the spirited feminist mother Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins, has died. She was 100. Johns lived in West Hollywood and died ...

In her decades-long career, Johns earned an Oscar nomination for the 1960 adventure film "The Sundowners," and won a Tony Award in 1973 for the Stephen Sondheim musical "A Little Night Music," which ...

Glynis Johns, known for her role as Mrs. Winifred Banks in the film classic "Mary Poppins," has died. She was 100. Mitch Clem, her manager, told The Associated Press she died Thursday of natural ...