Never need a reason, never need a rhyme: Mary Poppins is out of step with the times. That's according to an Oregon professor who wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times that asserts the 1964 film ...

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 ...

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 ...

'Mary Poppins' — a sequel starring Emily Blunt hits theaters Dec. 19 — topped the box office in 1964 (and earned an Oscar for star Julie Andrews), allowing Walt Disney to buy 27,000 acres near Orlando ...

A spoonful of sugar! With maybe just a touch of strychnine. Oldsters, who were kids in 1964, may still recall the hoopla and hysteria around "Mary Poppins," released 60 years ago this August 27.

The Disney movie, which came out in 1964, stars Julie Andrews as magical governess Mary Poppins and Dick Van Dyke as her chimney-sweep sidekick, Bert. It snared 13 Oscar nominations — including one ...

The 99-year-old actor opened up about his career at a recent charity event Dick Van Dyke almost didn't get the role of Bert in Mary Poppins At a recent Vandy High Tea event, he talked about his ...

"I couldn't believe, one tune after another," he said. "I wept" Dick Van Dyke had an emotional reaction upon hearing the music of Mary Poppins for the first time. The actor, now 98, sat down for an ...

The British film industry’s rating agency has decided to raise the rating of the 1964 classic film “Mary Poppins” to “PG” from “U,” suggesting that “discriminatory language” in the film warrants ...

Dick Van Dyke as Bert/Mr. Dawes, Sr. and English actress Julie Andrews in the title role from 'Mary Poppins', (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The rating for “Mary Poppins,” the 1964 classic ...

The 1964 film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke is now rated PG by the British Board of Film Classification. It’ll take more than a spoonful of sugar for the “discriminatory language” of 1964’s ...