Mary Poppins
A magic nanny named Mary Poppins comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family. Embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with Mary and her Cockney performer friend, Bert (Dick Van Dyke), the siblings try to pass on some of their nanny's sunny attitude to their preoccupied parents.
23 January 1932, Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA
23 September 1904, Glencoe, Illinois, USA
9 November 1955, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK
26 December 1892, Ashland, Oregon, USA
19 July 1891, Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
28 October 1902, Lewisham, London, England, UK
7 January 1903, Birmingham, England, UK
25 April 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 April 1914, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
13 May 1891, Brooklyn, New York, USA
12 April 1896, Kingman, Arizona, USA
7 May 1917, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
March 30, 2016
Van Dyke and Andrews have great chemistry together, but it's really her interaction with the children and the magic of the story and the visual effects that charm audiences.
December 09, 2013
One of the great movie musicals and of that rare breed of deathless family entertainment that's guaranteed to transfix children, well beyond this, its fiftieth anniversary. [Blu-ray]
March 03, 2008
Julie Andrews' first appearance on the screen is a signal triumph and she performs as easily as she sings, displaying a fresh type of beauty nicely adaptable to the color cameras.
September 16, 2013
The entire set was constructed indoors and it shows: the "outdoor" scenes are bathed in a dull gray light
May 20, 2003
I find it irresistible. Plenty of other adults will feel the same way. And, needless to say, so will the kids.
March 03, 2008
The grace of the effects makes it some kind of classic.
April 06, 2016
This is easily the best of Disney's experiments in combining animation and live action, and one of the studio's best-loved films.
June 24, 2006
Compared to even 'sophisticated' juvenile fodder, the sheer exuberance of Disney's adaptation of PL Travers' children's classic should tickle the most jaded fancy.
January 01, 2015
Van Dyke's energy is prodigious (especially when he leaps around with a gang of sooty chimney-sweeps on the London rooftops) and the songs are classics.
January 01, 2011
World's coolest nanny celebrates family and fun.
April 24, 2009
The sets are luxuriant, the songs lilting, the scenario witty but impeccably sentimental, and the supporting cast only a pinfeather short of perfection.
December 09, 2013
Whether the movie's message is Travers-approved or not, the emphasis on joy and empathy proves heartening, even today.
