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- Walt Disney Travers resisted for years before agreeing to Mary Poppins (1964); the resulting negotiation later became the subject of Disney's own film Saving Mr. Banks (2013). source ↗
Summary
P.L. Travers' 1934 children's novel introducing the magical nanny who arrives at the Banks household carried by the east wind and slides up the banister. Mary Poppins takes the children on adventures with talking animals, tea parties on the ceiling, and a visit to the man-in-the-moon, all while maintaining her stern and no-nonsense demeanor.