Mary Poppins - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Mary Poppins or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Mary Poppins

[frederick]

The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be also nominated for Best Visual Effects.

[russell]

Dame Julie Andrews' Best Actress Oscar winning performance was the only nominee in the category in a Best Picture nominee that year.

[christina]

The horse that Dame Julie Andrews rides while on the carousel, and later in the horse race, remains on display in Orlando, Florida. The carousel horse can be seen while waiting in line in the Chinese Theater for The Great Movie Ride at Hollywood Studios, which has since closed.

[lynn]

The top-grossing movie of 1964, and the top-grossing Disney movie for twenty years.

[kenzi]

P.L. Travers refused to allow any of her books to be made into sequels, rebuking Walt Disney, who wanted to make more Mary Poppins movies due to the success of this movie. A sequel was eventually made, but fifty-four years after the release of this movie, and twenty-two years after Travers' death.

[riley]

With five wins out of thirteen nominations in total, this movie marked Walt Disney's single most successful night at the Academy Awards. Never before or since, as of 2016, has a single Disney movie won as many Oscars in one evening.

[michele]

The first adaptation of Mary Poppins was Studio One in Hollywood (1948) in 1949. Mary Wickes played Mary Poppins, E.G. Marshall played Mr. George W. Banks, and David Opatoshu played Bert.

[kyle]

When she was filming The Princess Diaries (2001), Dame Julie Andrews discovered that Director Garry Marshall was living in the same house that she did when she was making this movie. Some of The Princess Diaries (2001) was shot on the same soundstage as this movie. Andrews knew this because there is a plaque on the soundstage saying that this movie was shot there.

[claude]

Walt Disney Pictures' first DVD release.

[marc]

In this movie, the Banks children give the tuppence that was at the heart of an argument that inadvertently caused a bank run at their father's workplace to their father as a forlorn gesture to put everything right. As it turns out, those coins did put everything right by not only saving Mr. George W. Banks' job, but in Mary Poppins Returns (2018), Mr. Dawes, Jr. revealed that Mr. George W. Banks invested those tuppence to create a fund that later saved his children's home in their adulthood.

[russell]

The song, "Let's Go Fly a Kite" was inspired by the Sherman brothers' (Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman) father, Al Sherman, who made kites for neighborhood kids as a weekend hobby. In this movie, the broken kite represents the broken family. When Mr. George W. Banks (David Tomlinson) mends the kite and the four pieces are taped back together, the four members of the family are also reunited. By transforming her "suffragette ribbon" into the kite's tail, Mrs. Winnifred Banks (Glynis Johns) also commits herself to being there more for her family.

[claude]

Not only was "Feed the Birds" Walt Disney's favorite song in this movie, but it is said that anytime he visited the Sherman brothers (Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman) during the rest of his life, all he would have to do was say, "Play it", and they knew he wanted to hear "Feed the Birds".

[gerald]

Upon David Tomlinson's death in 2000, British satirical magazine "Private Eye" published an uncharacteristically warm poem in tribute to him "So farewell David Tomlinson, noted British character actor...'Let's go fly a kite, up to the highest height.'. Yes, that was your catchphrase. And where you are going now."

[nina]

The financial success of this movie brought Walt Disney the money needed to expand WED Enterprises (now Imagineering), and he titled the new branch MAPO (short for MAry POppins).

[clayton]

Dame Julie Andrews was determined to nail the lullaby "Stay Awake". She took nearly fifty takes in the Disney recording studio to create the perfect "soft" voice quality for the song. Dick Van Dyke, on the other hand, took only one take to record his verses as Mr. Dawes, Sr. on "Fidelity, Fiduciary Bank".

[manuel]

P.L. Travers wanted the animated chalk-drawing sequence removed from this movie, but Walt Disney refused.

[bernice]

Although Dick Van Dyke considers this the best movie in which he has appeared, he nevertheless maintains to this day that he was somewhat miscast as Bert. He has suggested that either Jim Dale or Ron Moody would have played the part better.

[tamara]

Robert Wise and Ernest Lehman visited the set to view rushes of Dame Julie Andrews' performance. She was cast immediately in the lead for The Sound of Music (1965) on the strength of that visit.