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Julie Andrews | ... | ||
Dick Van Dyke | ... |
Bert /
Mr. Dawes Senior
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David Tomlinson | ... | ||
Glynis Johns | ... | ||
Hermione Baddeley | ... | ||
Reta Shaw | ... | ||
Karen Dotrice | ... | ||
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Matthew Garber | ... | |
Elsa Lanchester | ... | ||
Arthur Treacher | ... | ||
Reginald Owen | ... | ||
Ed Wynn | ... | ||
Jane Darwell | ... | ||
Arthur Malet | ... | ||
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James Logan | ... |
Bank Doorman
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When Jane and Michael, the children of the wealthy and uptight Banks family, are faced with the prospect of a new nanny, they are pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the magical Mary Poppins. Embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with Mary and her Cockney performer friend, Bert, the siblings try to pass on some of their nanny's sunny attitude to their preoccupied parents. Written by Jwelch5742
It's hard for me to explain the connection I feel with this film ... I was 7 when it came out, saw it twice in the theaters at the time, and of course have seen it over and over since then. I'm going to get the 40th anniversary DVD soon. You can argue about Dick Van Dyke playing an Englishman, about Julie Andrews being too sweet and young compared to the character in literature, about the fact that the whole thing was obviously shot on a soundstage. But just imagine being 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or anywhere near there, and not getting out of your small town in the rust belt of the U.S. except maybe a few times a year on holidays, and you can imagine what seeing this magical, albeit Disneyfied, look at another world must have been like. Every time I see it, I think back to the beautiful old movie theater in which I saw it (a block away from the Catholic school I then attended, no less), to getting my mother to buy a certain box of cereal so I could get the Mary Poppins prize inside, to gathering on weekends with cousins to listen to the soundtrack and try to dance like Bert. I've been to London many times since then, but funny enough, as much as the great city has to offer, I've never been able to find that magical place I saw 40 years ago.